It may be a port-over, but it's long overdue that a Wipeout game is available on a normal console.
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It may be a port-over, but it's long overdue that a Wipeout game is available on a normal console.
Pure probably sold so well because it was a launch title for the PSP; by the time Pulse came out, people lost interest... that, and Pulse is terrible in comparison :P
Hopefully the PS2 version of Pulse will be compatible with HDloader, because i'm not wasting my PS2's laser's life any more than I have to.
They didn't advertise it at all, very poor. It could easily have sold more if some sort of advertising occured.
so er...any news on when Pusle gets released for the PS2? Don't really have time to look through the history of this thread...at work at the moment and have to keep things brief...
September 3rd was the date quoted in the rumours, but I guess it`s all rumours at the moment.
We discussed a lot about that topic : Why not a port of Pure or Pulse on ps2, it was months ago, i was pretty desesperated not understanding obscures marketing plan of SCEE concerning Wipeout franchise. Hopefully they think of Pulse's port for a release date around early september : fine with me but please invest in a decent campaign of commercials to let people knows that game is existing. And not only thinking the hundred million of ps2 owners will be enough to plan maximum sales...
I ll buy one NTSC Pulse to fit with my slim ntsc ps2 and be very happy that game will be released soon : please SL ask Namco to let you use the Negcon code and spend a bit more time adjusting it for ps2 Pulse : that would be awesome. You can do it : it worths :nod
If I bought this, will it work on my PS3 thats what I want to know.
Not immediately. Probably within the next software update.
I imagine there's some chance of online play; admittedly I haven't checked recent releases, but a lot of PS2 games that included it seemed to be being released prior to the PS3 coming out.
A lot of games have online play on PS2, the name wasn't established as PSN though at the time and it also wasn't a unified service like it is now. I doubt PULSE on PS2 would have no online.
I thought the PS2 simply couldn't play games online anymore since it's not set up for the PSN?
Oh, I play Battlefeild 2 modern combat on mine all the time. Hardware: online arena works as well as many others.
Ooohh so I wonder the reason for no online will be then.
Being able to use the NeGcon on the pS2 would be amazing!
They still haven't released the Japanese version yet, so maybe that edition might have the bonus material included. I don't know anyone who buys games online in Japan; there's already a thriving used game market and I can't see people paying for something that they can never sell. Let's hope that at least one market gets the full proper treatment.
are there really going to be a lot of non collectors playing this game, especially with HD around the corner, or if you have it for PSP?
actually maybe if you dont have a ps3 yet...buttttt i dunno, it better not be more than 30 $ for the sakes of you guys that are going to buy it
The PS2 is near the end of its lifespan but it has a HUGE installed user base, and until very recently, had the best software sales amongst the "Playstation Family," as Sony likes to call it :)
Since porting Wipeout Pulse to the PS2 is presumably a fairly quick and easy job, Sony is probably just hoping that the sales are worth the effort at this point. Certainly Wipeout Pulse was a game that undersold, given its merits.
BTW, we still don't REALLY have official word from Sony about a PS2 port, right?
I wouldn't presume that back-porting to an old console would be easy.
Lance, from what I understand, the PSP and PS2 are very similar in power and architecture. A port should not be difficult. The graphics and effects might take a hit but the framerate and gameplay should be similar.
I just hope Pulse gets a release in the States for PS2. Considering how poorly it sold on PSP here. :(
I don't think that they are similar in architecture. And I think that their near-equivalence in power is achieved in different ways. Aaaaaand :D I don't think that modification of software even on the same machine is ever really simple. This is all, of course, just my partially informed opinion.
Lets hope not - SL only had two people on it, and one of them is Welsh! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Vincent_VII
tehehehe ;)
Oh! Official now! Rob's let it loose!Quote:
Originally Posted by infoxicated
BTW, I'm half welsh, 'tis awesome!
Hey! Most of my ancestors are Welsh [more properly, Cymraig].Quote:
Originally Posted by infoxicated
Hmm I remember hearing that developing PSP games wasn't drastically different to PS2 ones.
Oh boy I suddenly have a lot of faith that this port is going to turn out superawsome. :donut
only two people working on porting it, wont that take a while??
Chances are the programming language is fairly similar though, and most of the in game logic code can be pretty much copied. however the graphics make take a bit of work because I imagine the two systems have somewhat different ways of doing things graphic-wise.
Take this with a grain of salt, I know nothing about porting.:dizzy
It has been a while since my last post. I just didn’t have time for it. I have seen the thread from the beginning , checking from time to time to see what more news and opinions you have come up with,
I’m surprised why no one has thought about one particular and very itchy aspect of the PSP version of Pulse: the DLC.
I think it would be a great idea to put on the PS2 disc a particular code let’s say, resembling the small file that you download first into your computer in order to be able to download a demo in to your PSP. So you put the disc in a PC, connect to PSN and you are recognized as ok for download thanks to that code. In this way the price of the DLC could be linked to the price of the PS2 Pulse disc, Sony would get the money he wants, and the many that don’t have a credit card would finally get the so long awaited DLC . What do you think ?
I think it's a bad idea. Why? Because we would have to pay.
Now I'm going to ask you one question: do you want to work for Sony, or are you a normal customer who is sick of paying for everything?
I hope you choose number 2. For your own sake. It would be very bad if you were thinking about some mega corporation before thinking about yourself and others like you ;)
Lol I’m just a wipeout freak who really wants those packs , especially the Icaras , but he can’t because he doesn’t have a credit card and also no one he knows. I just think it would be a compromise, having all the packs + the game it is a lot . I doubt that Sony won’t make an offer for the entire package so in a way we might end up paying even less then it is on line. I don’t know what I’m saying here. Probably it isn’t the best solution for everyone but for me and I believe for many others would be a way to get those damn packs.
I just can’t wait to see this baby ingame : http://img152.imageshack.us/my.php?image=iar80wt0.jpg
EDIT : Of course I would LOOOVE to have them without having to pay but it seems Sony doesn’t have the same opinion about this, so what can I do? :)
So, aside from there being no online play for the PS2 version (correct me if wrong :eek ), any (major, mostly) differences between this version and the PSP version? :)
Differences? The main one being that it will look super slick on my living room TV!
The PSP component cables are not worth buying really, and nothing beats all the lights off, sound pumped up, and just a giant screen of nose cone camera and the track flying at you.
Switch out nose camera for external camera and that sounds like a great time to me ^___^
Well, racing on the big screen is the important thing. Hopefully they give this widescreen support. I know nothing about porting or coding, but I imagine that seeing as it is currently in widescreen, the switch shouldn't be too hard.
I have a feeling this game has now been demoted into the "speculative bullshit" bin.
Don't speak too soon RJ, Rob said that they had 'only one person working on it - and they were from Wales!'.
I thought there were 2.
Other than Rob alluding to the one or two Welsh people working on the conversion, and the article that ColdRem'S mentioned that started the whole discussion, haven't heard anything else about PS2 Pulse.
Is this game intentionally being marketed to sell a dozen copies per region or what?
I doubt a port gets a press release until its fairly close to the release date as its already been experienced on another console, and thus there would not be as much hype for it.
any official confirmation on this yet. only two months to the supposed release date?
Same question any date to release the game? I suppose the HD is the priority but... Some informations could be cool :beer