What about the Playstation 2?

[Rapier Racer]

The Playstation 2? It's been overlooked and left out with all the PS3 excitement. Lets not forgot just how many PS2s there are around the world over 110 million isn't it? Thats a lot of potential customers for SL if they made us another PS2 Wipeout which we need because lets face it in most peoples eyes Fusion was a failure I'd gladly welcome it over a PS3 version, PS3s are going to be scarce in Europe for a long time and cost a very lot of money. Fusions graphics were stunning and PS2 has online capabilities so I ask you would you not welcome a new PS2 Wipeout next instead of waiting till 2009 (come on you know its going to be delayed 100 times or so) for PS3?

[Tomahawk]

Indeed, I would be VERY happy to see another WipEout on the PS2, but I'm afraid it will never happen. Imo Sony just can't afford to mess up another PS2 WipEout title like they did with Fusion - that would be devastating for the brand WipEout is for them. That's why I think they're afraid to do another title on the PS2.

Another argument is a simple economical one, I think: As you said RR, the PS2 has already been sold over 100 million times in the whole wide world. So I guess Sony already made their profit with this console and is now focusing elswhere (PSP, PS3) with their efforts. They have to really push the PS3 to keep up with Microsoft's X-Box and a game like WipEout, which has gone platinum sales with every single release of the series (except Fusion and 3SE if I remember correctly), will surely help to increase the sales of the new PS3 console. So my guess is that Sony might watch the PS3 sales statistics and have kind of an ace up their sleeve with a new WipEout release to boost the console sales if they don't go as expected.

[Zerow]

Aye, I wouldn't mind seeing another PS2 WipEout (with online play ), although more than likely, as said, it won't happen.

[Mad-Ice]

Yes, yes, yes, I would really want another PS2 version of Wipeout. Online play has to be in there. The online service is already there, so how difficult can it be?!

[djb]

if there was another ps2 game, we would get to use our negcons instead of that sixaxis rubbish!! bonus!!

[JABBERJAW]

Man, just port over wipeout pure, with negcon support. how hard could that be. Oh and another speed class.

[Lance]

Huh? Do you need one slower than Vector?

[lunar]

lol. Technically speaking, slower than Vector on Pure is called "parking". I guess if Pure had been released on PS2 then many of us would not have bought PSPs. Sound business by Sony.... they own me.

[Rapier Racer]

PS2 has already been sold over 100 million times in the whole wide world. So I guess Sony already made their profit with this console

From hardware sales yes but I'm sure they will have looked at the potential software sales they could make with that number of consoles out there, why the game could pay for itself 10 times over and fill Sonys pockets nicely at the same time

[Medusa]

Am I correct in thinking that the PSP has the same graphics capabilities (or close to) the PS2? Why not release each PSP wipeout game on PS2 as well, when after all most people who are going to buy a PSP already have one, don't they?

[Rapier Racer]

I'm not 100% sure how close the two compare but I could not imagine Fusion type graphics on the PSP at all, you can see the difference with WWE games

[Asayyeah]

Oh and another speed class.

Huh? Do you need one slower than Vector?

Technically speaking, slower than Vector on Pure is called "parking".

After a hard day those 2 last quotes suit me perfectly well. Thx mates for that hilarious moment i spent

[Airrider]

After a hard day those 2 last quotes suit me perfectly well. Thx mates for that hilarious moment i spent

*chortle* It's like Top Gear in the anti-gravity era.

...*chortle*...I can hear them talking about a Zone-themed band.

"Wow! A Zone band! So presumably, they'll play really fast, change key often, and then burst into flame."

I think maybe one higher than Phantom might be a little too much to handle. Go faster, you call that a "crash".

[Lance]

''I think maybe one higher than Phantom might be a little too much to handle.''

Depends on whether you're an Al or not.
Or Arnaud.
Or someone equally illustrious.

[Lion]

I don't think even that's the case.
the more you play of phantom the more it seems like a normal pace.
I think I could handle something faster than phantom in pure.. it seemed when I first got it that phantom was going to melt my brain, but now it's simply the right speed

[Lance]

Didn't somebody say that Phantom class on Pure is slower than on either 2097/XL or W3O? Is it?

[Lion]

it's definitely considerably slower than either of those older titles

[Asayyeah]

i feel 2097/XL & W3O always faster than pure in phantom class but this is hard to compare equally : the psX opus with neggie and pure with dpad. Besides don't forget Firmware above 3.0 psp gives a faster feeling on Pure than we had when it launched.

weird stuff :
On the old ones , approximatively ( margin of less than 1 sec) i know where are the limits in term of best time possible on phantom.
About Pure except the 5 easiest tracks i have no clue on what score may be acheivable or not.

[Rapier Racer]

I always felt that 3 SE Phantom class was faster than Pures

[JABBERJAW]

It's probably as fast as xl regular ships, but not even close to piranha. Due to the speeds meaning nothing on psp wipeout, zone isn't even the fastest ship. It should feel like piranha from xl with those stats.