BBRoundtable

For those who own a PSP... there seems to be a problem<
>looming. No quality software for the past few month-<
>s. The latest arrival being Death Jr. was mildly e-<
>njoyable but had no online features to keep g-<
>amers interested leaving PSP owners to wa-<
>it again for a good title. Sure many UMD<
>movies were released, but many of t-<
>hem are already owned by some i-<
>n the DVD format and oftentim-<
>es, the UMDs are more expe-<
>nsive than DVDs. This lea-<
>ves gamers to endorse<
>pirated methods of<
>getting satisfyin-<
>g a gaming fix <
>on their PSP-<
>s. Also, th-<
>ere are <
>very<
>few ori-<
>ginal game-<
>s available for<
>the PSP. Instead,<
>ports of existing ga-<
>mes are offered - as a-<
>re scaled down versions o-<
>f PS2 titles. If Sony does not<
>push for more games for the PS-<
>P that utilize its online features, th-<
>is system will be as short-lived as the D-<
>reamcast here in the US. Also, take this in<
>consideration: developers are more anxious to<
>create PS3 games than those for the PSP since cre-<
>ating games for the latter is risky with sales for PSP s-<
>oftware not reaching their expectations. What a shame!!! <i></i>

Well, I don't really think there are too many ports, but you could make the case for too many sequels (and not innovative sequels at that). <
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>The best PSP games I've played are Ridge Racer and Lumines, both from launch. I can't think of too many upcoming games that sound great.<
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>Burnout Legends could be good, judging from screenshots and video. PoPoLoCrois will help with the lack of RPG's, although I think it is a remake... nothing previously available in the US, at least. <
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>I don't plan to buy the GTA game, but that's the considered the biggest upcoming PSP release for this year.<
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>There was a time when the PSP had a definite edge... a fair selection of good titles at a time when the DS barely had any games out. But now it's the other way around, hardly any good PSP releases and great new DS titles out now and in the near future. <
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><b>Currently playing:</b>Wario Ware: Touched (DS) <b>Last game completed:</b> Darkwatch (Xbox)</b><i></i>

Tis a shame that the PSP is not getting the support in<
>terms of software like it should have been or that<
>it did upon its initial release. Many of the PSP<
>titles are ports of existing PS2 games suc-<
>h as THUG 2, Midnight Club 3, Need Fo-<
>r Speed Underground, Spiderman an-<
>d so many others. Lumines was o-<
>ne of the only games exclusive-<
>ly created for the PSP. Even<
>the up and coming game-<
>s are alternate versio-<
>ns of existing title-<
>s with the exce-<
>ption of Dea-<
>th Jr whic-<
>h was n-<
>ot th-<
>e <
>grou-<
>nd
eak-<
>ing title it w-<
>as supposed to b-<
>e. GTA: Liberty City S-<
>tories is pretty much self e-<
>xplanatory, Burnout Legends wi-<
>ll be based on the original Burnout w-<
>ith elements from the latest version, and<
>Marvel Imperfects will be a port of the PS2 an-<
>d X-box versions... so will X-Men Legends 2. The la-<
>tter will be an RPG of sorts, but not in the traditional s-<
>ense, so I understand your point regarding lack of RPGs CB! <i></i>