I can't wait but how will I be able to use my neocon controller with it? That's the only way to play Wipeout in my opinion.

JohnnyHash

I am severely hoping that this Next-Gen Update of a Playstation Classic will live up to my expectations......

If it manages to dash my hopes as WARHAWK PS3 did......i fear what I will do to my shiny black blu-ray player....

GoonieGooGoo

I just hope we don't have to wait several months for it to arrive in the US like every other Wipeout games -_-

Damn you, Europe!

Kamakazie

Why the f isn't this already out? It was being hyped before Xmas!

in5ane

this is going to be so awesome loved pure, and it runs at 1080p so it wont look nasty when i sit real close to the tv for a more immersing experience.

eagle14

Owey! My eyes have stopped working after looking at those screenshots...I'm only able to type now because of my proficient familiarity with QWERTY keyboards. Owey!

cheeses

This is purely beautiful. I now understand fan service. And such a good thing it is!

agustin2489

The score! The intensity! The speed! Whenthe bloody hell is the release date!!! And is it only downloadable?!... PFFFT @ F-Zero

leblackdragon

@PaulHunter: you bought the original score? dude Wipeout Wipeout XL/3 play in a regular CD player. All tracks. If you have the original game CD then you have the soundtrack.

Striderhayasa - Phillyyakk on PSN and Live.

Looks kinda cool, I was a fan of the old wipeouts but this is a last gen title that doesn't impress this day and age in my opinion. It'll be fun and good most likely but doesn't have the same coolness the old ones did. Looks a little shiny which I don't like but graphics aren't everything and the graphics are mostly good anyway.

-Sigil-

The only thing that I want along this great game,are the PSN cards to buy content,here in Mexico we can't buy anything from the PSN,they don't accept mexican credit cards,I'm really mad about this,and I can't take it anymore,just imagine:no Everyday's Shooter,no Flow,no DLC,no Pixel Junk Monsters,no Wipeout HD,no SSF2 HD,hell....somebody help us!!!... :(

OT79

Purty.

baked ham

Ka-ching! Sony just earned my 599 US dollars (or whatever the ps3 sells for now).

feiz

@Sollus:

My guess is b/w May and July

sUKi

It's a good thing I didn't buy Pulse. How soon is soon for the release of this game?

Sollus

Oh man this looks like WipeOut XL with updated graphics. Which is PERFECT. I hope theDeignersRepublic is involved, for authenticity. That would be the icing on the cake.

B-Minus

.. do fucking want. Time to move into my friend's house unofficially.

Squishy3

All of those screens are so high-contrast and generically futuristic. It's difficult to distinguish the racers from the track itself! That won't be as much an issue when watching the game in motion, but it still is visually unappealing to me. I loved the original, but it feels like the visual style of the series has regressed to being much less distinctive and attractive.

Toasticus

@coktoe: I agree to an extent. Although I like both series alot (playing a lot of Wipeout Pulse these days, awesome game) I still think F-Zero GX has better track design. It's also as fast if not faster than Wipeout Pure/Pulse/Fusion with 30 cars on screen at 60 frames per second. That's with fully textured backgrounds and effects. But make no mistake, I'll still have HD. Wipeout is the only other futuristic racer not called F-Zero that's worth playing. Extreme G2 and X-Gra could have been great with some pretty sick track designs but Acclaim never got the controls right. If you can't run a time trial on the highest speeds and get a perfect lap, the game is broken. That's ExtremeG.

@djsyndrome: yeah dude. picking up a 500GB HDD for my PS3 next month Woot woOt!

@jun581: No. I checked around and couldn't find any. Not in my area at least. Kinda sucks to because I could use one. I'd think they would be out round the same time that Home debuts.

Striderhayasa - Phillyyakk on PSN and Live.

Wow, looks better than I thought it would.

@Hiroken: I played the first too, but not on PS1 :) Sega Saturn baybieeee lol.

KrsJin

I've loved Wip3out since the original PS1 titles and am a HUGE fan. (You can tell because I actually bother to write Wip3out). Anyway, I can't wait for this!

Hiroken

This could sell me a PS3, the first 2 games helped sell me that first PSX ;)

DaiMacculate

@SnakeCL: Yup, fatal Inertia can go home now. the real futuristic racer is coming. 60 FPS,1080P, cant wait... im licking my chops for this one. good thing i bought wipeout pulse to feed my hunger until then:D

@logicaldefense: why? i play RR7 on my tv at 1080p and it looks just fine. might be you need to set far back to play. keep i mind that when u get a tv wit 50 plus inch, you gotta back it up dude. hope that helps. :D

zanzibarlegend

I can't wait for this come out and those screens look awesome. I love Pandas.

WolfGod

@ logicaldefense:
Thats cause it's 4D ;)

-EDGE-

1080P games really hurt my eyes :(
I play on a 52 inch Bravia, my eyes burn when I play
Virtua Tennis at 1080p lol.

logicaldefense

So these are the same tracks as in PSP's Wipeout Pure, only rendered in hi-res?

Hmm.

I just hope that when the expansion packs come out, Sony is not going to spam them with Puma or other brand as they did in Pure [www.bartsnews.net] ?

Barts

@Kirkpad:

You can buy any size hard drive you like, and it doesn't even have to say Sony on the box.

djsyndrome

@LastNinja: EU did get Wipeout Pulse first, at least two months before the US.

CONFUSEDgam3r

This is going to be killer! Wipeout rocks.

MrSark

Gonna have to buy another PS3 when the "proper" wipeout for the PS3 comes out. Though this looks ace. The wipeout series drew me to the PS1 and PS2 looks like it will do the same here too.

baysideSxoc

Looks nice.

Reminds me, I wonder if Nintendo will ever make the next F-Zero series and if it'll have 30 racers online?

Dr.Chocobo

... I want a PS3 now. Please Sony announce a bigger hard-drive (if they haven't).

Kirkpad

While this game looks pretty cool, I can't help but thinking that the creativity put into this game is minimal. The atmosphere is way too much like F-zero, in my opinion. That doesn't mean it won't be good, though!

Darthvinder

@Witzbold:
Everyone remember "We Have Explosive"? ;)

-EDGE-

really? where can i find them? thanks for the response

jun581

freaking awesome. i only we see a similar announcement for a new f-zero comes on the wii.

Dang-fuzz

@jun581: Yeah they're out.

Kaneda

@coktoe:
haha i understand u.i grew up with wipeout games and my first F zero game was that gamecube version.
it was quite fast! but the thing is physics were nonexistent.Vehicles felt too light as if i war driving a papercraft.

GimmeCat

@Draconis: Has there been an annoucement regarding a new iteration of Wipeout for the PS3? i don't recall.

By the way, does anyone know if those PSN cards are out? I really don't want to put up my account info on PSN. curious if they came out. thanks

jun581

I hope the music is as good as Wipeout XL. I loved the original score so much I went out and bought the cd.

This game looks amazing.

PaulHunter

Cool! I was worried that this was canceled.
Can't wait!

TheCleaningGuy

Looks very nice. Can I has it please? :(

Candlejack

I'm more pumped about this than Killzone 2 and MGS4. Seriously, I loved Wipeout XL THAT much. I wish they'd give a frickin release date though, from december to "early 08" when it's almost March seems sketchy. But seriously, all they have to do is upgrade the visuals and soundtrack and I will buy this game every time.

soundgarden

Love me some Wipeout, especially when it looks this gorgeous and will be supported by DLC, so instant buy.

The best part about this game is that it's not even the primary Wipeout for PS3.

Draconis

I can't fucking wait for this. I've been playing the crap out of Pure on psp in anticipation.

LX

I hope that this game will have the ability to play your own music.

Is there a price announced for this yet?

def PD

i just blew a hole in the front of my pants.

ortholomeux

@humorbot: Haha! That's awesome. The noises coming from me when I think about Wipeout in glorious HD and 60 fps are more in the "crazy schoolgirl jumping and moving hands in weird ways" family.

Kaneda

@humorbot: It's difficult to say what needs updating when it comes to specific franchises. The same can be said about most sports titles. It seems the fans who notice the differences appreciate the changes between titles (e.g. Wipeout 2097 featured subtle grinding, whereas no title since has had that feature), but the downsides to such changes are obvious.

Armored Core is the same. But, the fans keep coming.

pylon_trooper

Can't wait for this. The original was one of the first games I bought for the PS1. That and a crappy game called Kiliek the DNA Imperative or something like that.

homernoy

It's interesting to think that Wipeout is one the few franchises that have been around forever without ever really changing at all, in gameplay terms, and we don't care. I certainly don't care. As if all it ever needed was more polish, more polish, more polish...

Sometimes I think about this on my Aquos 1080p LCD and start grunting like a pig at a trough.

humorbot

"The game will be presented in full 1080p"

Not if you don't have an HDTV that supports it. Ha

DigitalHero

It looks good. I wish I could translate "soon" into something more concrete.

Maldron

@scotty:

There's no shame in sticking with Pulse. It's awesome! Unstoppable, even!

pylon_trooper

@djsyndrome:
Lol. Europe got it WAY before US.
Anyways, If I had owned a PS3, I would seriously think about getting this.
I guess I'll stick with pulse

scotty

@Witzbold: Pulse on the PSP has the option for a custom soundtrack. I'm hoping this one will have it too. This way if the soundtrack sucks we can just import the one from XL and continue to live a happy life.

That being said, I also hope they come up with a solid soundtrack!

Kaneda

@randomletters:

Uh, being Wipeout you're probably going to get it first. North America just got Pulse last week :\

djsyndrome

Let it come already! Looking at these screens just makes the wait more painful.

Kaneda

Magnificent!

WipEout Pulse is ruling my world at the moment. Certainly par excellence as far as racing goes, not just on portable systems, but for all consoles.

pylon_trooper

I have been so waiting for this ever since it was first announced!

I do hope it has a good soundtrack to go with the game though.

Witzbold

That is definitely THE PS3 title for the Euro hardcore crowd.

Asbestos_Underwear

@randomletters: Probably we will get it in a timely fashion since it is being developed in the UK, but then again that is no guarantee.

LastNinja

@randomletters: This is made in a sony of Europe division if I remember correct. I think they "should" take care of you also. *cross's fingers for you Europeans*

Rabidsquirrel

That panda does seem a little odd, but the game looks pretty great.

Tzero7

SOLD! problem is how long are us europeans going to have to wait for this?

Looks at Everyday shooter....

randomletters

Wipeout XL was my fav. Can anyone believe its been over a decade since the original came out? HD was made for Wipeout.

subterfunk

For me,this series was never as good as F-Zero(especially the awesome F-Zero X),but it is a good series,and I will check this out for sure.Wipeout always seemed a bit to floaty.

coktoe

I like that panda. I hope we can drive/hover right through it to make it explode or something...
...yeah I'm gonna go get a coffee..

IntelSilver

Fatal Inertia who?

Wow, that's coming along amazingly well.

SnakeCL

Looks absolutely fantastic. Judging from the PSP wipeouts there will be a f*ckton of DLC for this game.

MoeB

Can't come out soon enough for me!

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