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author=WIP link=topic=2770.msg52341#msg52341 date=1230143250
As for downloadable titles, when you purchase Suikoden and other PS1 games from the PSN, do you have to specify you want it for your PS3 or PSP?

If there is no distinguishable markers for it, then it's a moot point. You can never guarantee that a person would use their PSP to play Suikoden.

You can play on PS3 or PSP. You can go back and forth in-between the two, if you want. It's a pretty elegant system and there is big potential for synergy between the two products but so far nothing has capitalized on it.

And it is not a moot point. Firmware 5.0 will feature Playstation Store browsing through the PSP itself, which is a long-overdue feature and is basically the same as buying a PSP-specific game (that you can backup or move to your PS3 whatever).

Also I just looked this up and in Japan all first-party games are available online day-and-date as they are retail. It's pretty cool to think that we might enjoy that same luxury.

author=WIP link=topic=2770.msg52341#msg52341 date=1230143250
As for the PSP, there is really nothing really coming out for it now. I think Dissidia is basically it. It's on a long and slow deathmarch.

I blame it on Sony's terrible marketing of it. I would also say it has a few hardware issues but nothing incomparable to the DS's faults.

There's stuff. Patapon 2 and Kingdom Hearts other games that people will think are worth playing. But yeah not that much. It is a great handheld and it would be nice to see it realize its potential.

Exercising vigorously while I am drunk. When I am falling apart I hit the tavern with my buds and then go on a long, angry run. I routinely injure myself somehow when I do this but it really works out the kinks. Also it burns lots of cals.

I also hate it when video games do not let me quit playing when I want to. There is sometimes no ability to quick save at any time. This is especially a problem in handheld games. I can put my handheld to sleep, but I can not be 100% guaranteed that it will still have my progress when I wake it up. Losing an hour's worth of progress just once or twice can make someone never want to play again.

author=harmonic link=topic=2479.msg52340#msg52340 date=1230142742
Brandon: So like, should we just cover all game females in drab robes that cover everything but their eyes and show no body shape? :P Battle of the nuns.

If I recall, Agrias was basically a nun. Also when is the last time you have seen a real woman with an ass that huge. Seriously it is gross. She has a waist-hip ratio of like 0.33. It is 100% ghetto sex culture. I don't understand how you are arguing that illustration is showing a natural body shape. It is exactly the same as massive DDD breasts.

Also no I am not arguing that. I am arguing that over-sexualization of women in video games is wrong and it is gross. I can give a project the benefit of the doubt if both men and women in the game are sexualized and fashionable, but I can't do the same thing when women are portrayed as victims and trophies.

There might be conflicts between people using the real version versus the pirated version. The popular pirated version is a translated Japanese one.

author=WIP link=topic=2770.msg52320#msg52320 date=1230138989
Actually, the PSP very rarely tops 300,000 per month. And the 360 has out sold it for the past three months. It actually had double the sales the PSP did last month (800k compared to 400k).

Recent price drop! Look at historical figures man. I said usually not last month etc.

EDIT: Well I looked it up!

http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=2362

In the third quarter of 2008, PSP outsold 360 significantly. Overall worldwide sales in 2008 show PSP outselling 260 2-1. In the past this margin was even greater.

I mean like who really cares about this stuff but you told me I was wrong.

My thing is that PSP games never sell that well - when is the last time you saw one in the top 20? Crisis Core? God of War? But at the same time it has more hardware out than the 360, which hits top 20 titles and often #1 sellers all the time.

Downloadable games for $6 might encourage people to buy more stuff. After all, CT DS is $40, which is a comparable product to Suikoden for $6.