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Sony upset with third-party PSP support News

News by Rob Purchese

Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida is disappointed at the lack of third-party support for the PSP.

He pointed to first-party games such as God of War: Chains of Olympus, Buzz! Brain Bender and Resistance Retribution as examples of strong, existing IP that had been manipulated for PSP - something he's disappointed third-parties are not emulating.

"What we'd like to see more is for third-parties also - there is so much great IP that they have," Yoshida told IGN.

"It's really, really disappointing, and it's a lost opportunity for the third-parties. They should look at what the PSP can do for their titles and the potential for the business that their IP has."

Yoshida promised Sony has "many more" unannounced PSP games planned for next year, and said leading by example was the best way to get third-parties involved.

Capcom's Japanese Monster Hunter phenomena was used as an example, whereby developers and publishers could visibly see groups of friends playing the game in public places.

Perhaps the PSP-3000, with its brighter, more colourful screen, will prompt more activity when it launches here in mid-October.

The first PSP-3000 bundle will arrive in the UK on 17th October and cost GBP 149.99. Contents, bizarrely, are yet to be confirmed.

Post from eurogamer

Football Manager 2009 Preview

First there was text commentary. Then a top-down 2D engine. Now, finally, after years of patient waiting, Football Manager's match engine is entering the third dimension on PC and Mac. Utilising motion capture footage borrowed from SEGA Japan's Virtua Striker, Football Manager 2009 is promising to deliver the visual realism that its stunningly detailed match engine so richly deserves.

The build that we see during the game's London launch party is still very much a work in progress, with just over 40 of the promised 100 player animations in place. The footage shows an isometric 3D viewpoint that encompasses the entire pitch, allowing for the easy monitoring of your team's performance (as with the 2D match engine). Purists will still be able to play FM09 entirely from the 2D match engine viewpoint, while developer Sports Interactive is also considering retaining the original text-only commentary option.

"We've been working on it [the 3D match engine] for about three years and we've had a couple of attempts that we abandoned," Sports Interactive MD Miles Jacobson reveals. "Late last year we were confident that we could do a 3D match engine properly. But even up until a couple of months ago we didn't know we were going to be delivering it this year."

The new 3D match engine will contain over 100 unique animations.

Other new 3D match engine features include a time bar borrowed from Football Manager Live, allowing you to rewind the action. There'll also be a new TV-style view that provides full-screen options and a customisable selection of widgets such as player ratings.

While the action will be viewed from a fixed distance (zooming in and player cams won't feature) Jacobson promises that SI is attempting to cram as much detail as possible into the new match engine. "We're trying to make sure that each player will have the correct skin and hair colour," he says. "We have eighteen different skin tones to make it as accurate as possible. We're trying to get a really good level of detail right down to players raising their hands for offsides and animated referees and linesmen too."

Jacobson also says that players will have preferred moves to help distinguish a tricky step-over-loving winger from a towering central defensive bruiser. While preferred move animations will be generic rather than modelled on the playing style of each player's real-life counterpart, the scope for advancements of the 3D match engine over the coming years is clear to see.

As well as the revolutionary match engine, FM09 will also possess plenty of evolutionary features. Assistant managers will provide exhaustive feedback about how you and the opposition are playing, a feature that hardcore players will no doubt snort at, but one which could prove invaluable to newcomers.

The 3D action will be viewable from five different camera angles.

"This [the assistant manager option] is something that has consistently come up when we've spoken to new users," explained Jacobson. "During a match your assistant manager will give you feedback in two specific areas: a player's motivation during a match and general feedback on whether your tactics are working, how the opposition is exploiting your tactics and what you can be doing to exploit their tactics."

Media interaction is also being revamped, with press conferences taking place before and after each match and when starting out at a new club. Press conferences will involve journalists firing questions at you, to which you'll respond from a selection of five replies. However, make too many unsubstantiated statements and those pesky journos will quickly and gleefully remind you of your predications should you fail to deliver on your promises. If it all gets too much, you'll even be able to throw a hissy fit and storm out.

Other new features that Jacobson reveals include the ability to ask your players to stay back after training to learn special moves, and bolstered board-confidence feedback that will keep you better informed of how you're progressing. All of the fifty-one countries' leagues are receiving an update with the player and staff database set to tip the 350,000 mark for the first time, while the transfer system is also being rewritten in the hope that the game's transfer activity will more realistically reflect what's happening in the real world.

The TV mode will let you watch matches from a full screen viewpoint.

Finally, good news for female fans as for the first time you'll no longer have to pretend to be a boy (unless you really want to), thanks to a new female manager option. Or should that be manageress?

Before finishing his presentation, Jacobson talks about FM09 on PSP, which will ship simultaneously with the PC and Mac versions. "For the PSP version you can now have multiple leagues," he reveals. "You start off with one country's leagues and you can then add up to three top-tiered European divisions on top, so you can move around your career just like you can in the PC game." The biggest reveal, however, is the announcement that FM09 on PSP will feature the 2D match engine, with the action viewable from both the full pitch and a more zoomed-in perspective. Sadly, SI has no plans to release FM09 on PS3 or Xbox 360, citing the need to improve the control interface before having another crack at a home console version.

With more reveals promised over the coming months via a series of podcasts and with a demo in the works (set for public release a few weeks before FM09 ships), there's more than a little to be getting excited about. After one too many years of evolutionary shuffles, it seems the Football Manager series could be about to take that all important revolutionary leap we've all been waiting for.

Preview from eurogamer

[业界]SE出展TGS作品阵容公开（FFXIII、DQIX将有最新影像）

Official website here:http://www.square-enix.co.jp/tgs08/

SQUARE-ENIX于10月9日～12日出展「东京游戏展会2008」的作品及展出形式日前公开。
其中
8款NDS作品
4款PSP作品
4款Xbox360作品
2款PS3作品
还有其它平台作品，展出总计28款。


主要出展作品一览

·勇者斗恶龙IX (DS) 映像
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·北欧女神 负罪者 (DS) 試遊・映像
·路行鸟魔法绘本2 (DS) 試遊・映像
·路行鸟迷宫DS+ (DS) 試遊・映像
·史奴比DS! (DS) 試遊・映像
·企鹅DS (DS) 試遊・映像

·最终幻想 Agito XIII (PSP) 映像
·最终幻想 纷争 (PSP) 試遊・映像
·王国之心 沉睡初诞 (PSP) 試遊・映像
·寄生前夜 The 3rd Birthday (PSP) 映像

·星之海洋4 -THE LAST HOPE- (Xbox360)
·最后幸存者(Xbox360)
·无尽隐秘 (Xbox360) 映像
·最终幻想XI (PS2/Xbox360/Windows) 映像

·最终幻想XIII (PS3) 映像
·最终幻想 Versus XIII (PS3) 映像

※手机、ipod、街机作品除外

Origin post from a9vg

PSP3000官方未公布新功能全揭秘

SONY新一代掌机 PSP3000 已经正式公布，只待10月上市销售了。从SONY官方介绍的情况来看，内置麦克风和改善屏幕显示效果是主要的变化（当然还包括视频输出方面的改进）。不过似乎SONY官方还有意耍了一个小花招，对于新版掌机的固件只字不提。新的固件一定包含了新的功能，下面我来为大家一一揭秘！
秘密一：“Color Space”（暂时就叫做颜色空间吧）
PSP3000所搭载的新版固件将支持一个全新的功能叫做“Color Space”（颜色空间）。用户可以在XMB的system settings （系统设定）菜单里找到它。这个选项主要针对的是PSP3000新机。用户可以通过这个选项设定屏幕显示的效果是Wide（广色域-使用PSP3000硬 件所具备的全色彩显示）还是normal（普通色彩-使用近似PSP2000的色彩模式显示）。
秘密二："Automatic USB Connection" (USB自动连接）
新版PSP中搭载的固件支持USB自动连接功能。启动该功能之后，PSP只要连接上相应的USB设备，就会自动切换到USB模式，不再像之前还每次都需要进入菜单进行相应的连接操作。
秘密三："Noise reductionfor video out" (视频减噪输出）
PSP3000将对视频输出进行优化，其中包括了固件方面的改进。新版PSP搭载的固件将具备一个对输出视频进行减噪优化的新功能，来进一步提高输出视频的质量。
以上功能都是来自新版PSP3000所搭载的系统固件，相应的功能相信未来PSP1000和PSP2000系列也有望实现。

Origin post from CNGBA