oh man, I was really looking forward to playing WipEout this fall!

hope they can get a fix for it soon.

Pilote.de.Ciel

@LittleBigPlaneteer: Heh, insider secrets. The shit I could spill....

Its much more fun keeping it to yourself though =D

Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science.

The problem is that the method for turning BC off in new systems is they give the system a list of games it's not allowed to play. Unfortunately, it keeps thinking this is actually the original game.....or, it just causes PS3's to implode upon itself. This wouldn't be an issue, if it wasn't for for the blackhole it causes.

Darkest Daze

Mines.

Rocket.

archibaldleech

@GHz:

Ooo another person with inside secrets. Nice! If it really is the failing of epilepsy tests, I'm willing to let that slide. I want me some Wipeout HD goodness NOW. I'll take the occasional seizure for that. Sony if you're listening, bribe whoever is in charge of getting passing grades for those tests.

Fun Fact: If a person with epilepsy is having a seizure, a game that induces epileptic seizures will reverse it. It's like they cancel each other out!

LittleBigPlaneteer

To this day, Wipeout remains my favourite racing game ever. It's the only Playstation exclusive that really, really makes me insanely jealous of the other side. Has been ever since the first game. I hope they never release it, 'cause that way I won't be obligated to fork out for a PS3. :P

freakout

They just need to tighten up the graphics on level 3. They're doing it as fast as they can because they have lots of other video games to make!

dowingba

This is the kind of excusable delay, flat out telling us this is whats wrong and as soon as its fixed everything will be grand.

Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science.

'...[T]he game [is] plagued by a "really, really tricky technical problem" that nobody at Sony has been able to fix.'

What the hell? It's their own code and architecture! I hope this gets fixed... I want more WipEout!

Altersparck

@LittleBigPlaneteer: Odd, I had always thought the 4th dimension was one of tiny, tiny donuts.

<Homer dream>

Anyway, I can't see it as being anything trophy, SIXAXIS related; the rumbling stuff has been pretty standard for a while, and how hard is it really to had a few trophies? 1080p/60FPS maybe, but reports have been saying that they've achieved that for months already in all the builds.

So I'm going with - funky netcode!

Datheron

Fix it!

Wolfers

A programmer myself, sometimes there are just bugs that completely baffle you. I've heard of bugs that have taken entire teams 72 hours of dedicated searching to find (we're talking 20-30 people doing nothing but look for this one bug). In this one instance, eventually it was found within the way the compiler compiled certain C commands to assembly. Not exactly easy to find.

I'm sure they would be incredibly embarrassed to admit if this was the case. A "really, really tricky technical problem" sounds just like that to me.

Infil

@zoesch:

Believe it or not, I heard it from someone who used to work at Sony Liverpool.

...err...

...I think I've probably said too much already.

GHz

@ハリセンボン:

Lolocaust.

ChiZ_MacT

Quick summary of potential issues:

-Online support
-Trophy support
-1080P/60FPS issues
-Sixaxis/Rumble
-Epileptic seizures
-Opens up whole to 4th dimension (it's filled with pink ponies)

-The game RROD's

-A warning screen appears everytime you stat the game saying the game isn't compatible with the PS3 because Microsoft bought the rights to it with a big fucking blank check, motherfucker I hate when I do rants like this!

-It prints money (not exactly a "problem")

LittleBigPlaneteer

@mfwahwah:

That's my guess too.

TF2Soldier914

@GHz: Like the Pokemon case, where people playing can have foaming in their mouth?? Awesome!!! (in a bad way)

ahmeng

@GHz: Source?

zoesch

Yikes. Saw a preview for the game, and it looks awesome. I'd buy it, but I don't have a PS3, so I'm out of luck regardless.

Xenigma

Meh.. they'll probably release it with 2 teams in-game, and the rest as DLC for $10 a pop, but then only release the DLC in the UK.

*walks away muttering something about Wipeout: Pulse*

MrBionic

@Luke Plunkett:

No, it's totally true.

Strange... but true.

GHz

It might be with their visual goals. 1080p/60 FPS at those hyper-intense wipe out speeds sounds a bit difficult to nail on the online multiplayer.

mfwahwah

Damn you sixaxis...

MyLittlePwny

That sounds so odd that no one can figure out the problem. I really wonder what it is.

LittleBigPlaneteer

WipEout HD
BUGREPORT #20450587453
CONTENT:
Pressing the X button causes PS3 to become sentient.
SKYnet goes live.

ハリセンボン

@GHz: Are you taking the piss? That sounds crazy enough to be true, you know :)

Luke Plunkett

Whaaaaaaaaa?

Just hit the machine, that'll fix it. But seriously, can't wait to play this. I hope they fix the problem soon, this was one of the main reasons I recently jumped on the PS3 band wagon.

Crosswayboy

Yeah, apparently, the game fails some sort of epilepsy tests, so until they manage to stop the flashing...

...no game.

GHz

shit

shichi

What kind of technical problem? Mind sharing with us, Sony...

ahmeng

Damn.

FP_slomo788

I think the technical problem was that they couldn't get the game to look like the speed factor was as huge as they wanted it to be. Sure, it might be blindingly fast, but they want MOAR.

Also, has anyone been noticing the tricky, technical issue that Kotaku's been having lately? I've had it a few times pop up where I've had multiple comment boxes (y'know, the thing you type these here word deals in.) pop up at the bottom of the page. I had a click earlier that was literally spawning more of them at the bottom of the page.

Ampillion = That Man.

@Wolfers: I went to play Pulse (despite my seething bitterness), but realized my PSP is in my car. Too far to go to get it. It's like, 20 steps. I'll just read instead.

MrBionic

@archibaldleech: You know, I wasn't going to load up Pulse until I read your post.

Wolfers

@Jamie_W: Watch the gameplay vids, its running, just a case of for how long.

Ryuujin1024

Ouch... Is Sony cursed?

VakeroRokero

Sorry for the double post.

They're fixing it to where they're making sure that EA STICKS to the greenlight on Mirror's Edge... rather than completely throwing it in the garbage bin.

I speak no lies.

:x

xMaverick

@archibaldleech: Missile.

freakout

I bet they can't get it to run in HD.

Jamie_W

You're all wrong on this one, actually.

I heard from a friend of a friend who knows some people who kills people that like to rob people of information.

Apparently they're fixing this bug in Wipeout that made EA approve DICE for greenlighting Mirror's Edge.

It's not a 4th dimensional warp thing they're trying to fix.

It leads to the 5th dimension. At the speed of 88mph.

xMaverick

@GHz: Even if youre making it up thats an awesome reason. In fact i want the seizure version of the game.

Im not a big wipeout fan anyways. I want some of that fat princess though. That looks awesome!! And i love chubbies.

snakepliskin

@Ampillion = That Man.: I've got the same problem, but sometimes with disappearing posts. I personally blame LittleBigPlaneteer.

Also, I'm disappointed to hear about this game's release date. It has to be something else besides a technical problem, something like what you said. It's also possible it might not be meeting its full goal of 60 frames a second on 1080p on some courses.

Drake Lake: L'Heure Exquise

Christmas? That's a hell of a problem.

FP mind in rewind

it's probably a glitch in the online racing code that causes the game to crash, I think this is the most likely since they have had playable builds of the game for a while now.

Assassin_Kensei

GHz: "Yeah, apparently, the game fails some sort of epilepsy tests, so until they manage to stop the flashing..no game."

I'd like to see the footage of the fails lol.. but seriously, do they really bother with that?? I would think the seizure warning that's in all the manuals is good enough.

PlasmaMachine

@mfwahwah: "It might be with their visual goals. 1080p/60 FPS at those hyper-intense wipe out speeds sounds a bit difficult to nail on the online multiplayer."

Anything is possible, though I think Sony would rather drop the resolution to 720p instead of indefinitely delaying the product. That and I refuse to believe they have so many asshats over there working that cannot figure out how to optimize performance. Plus, if it was indeed a performance issue I think all the people who've played it in the past year might have mentioned it.

Either way I'm really looking forward to Wipeout HD and was very surprised to not see (or read) about it at E3 this year.

Replica23

@Drake Lake: Just Like Vengeful Wolves:

Dammit, foiled again! I'm in your internetz stealing all your posts

LittleBigPlaneteer

Do they have test epileptics? You know, like crash test dummies, people whose job it is to see whether games give you epileptic fits or not?

"Well, I think you guys have nailed it this time, I've been playing for half an hour and I'm still- oh no..."

phicaluk

um... i was hoping to get this before fall started... darn...

neo177117

Whaaa?! I was hoping that this game will be released by the end of this month or next month. Kind of a let down.. hmm...I wonder when FAT Princess and R&C: Quest for Booty will be released? I'm hoping next month..but i guess i shouldn't put my hopes too high up. :P

Darx_Linx

As far as I'm concerned, a Playstation isn't a Playstation until it's got a Wipeout game. If Sony wants my money one day, they'll drop everything else they're working on and get this figured out. Oh, and it better have Quake.

notoriousEIC

LOL @ PlasmaMachine, I would love to see the epileptic who plays this and freaks out. Yeah the warning screen in the beginning like in Nintendo games should work if that was the problem.

Assassin_Kensei

@LittleBigPlaneteer:
"-It prints money (not exactly a "problem")"

so THAT'S what the slot on the front of the console is for! and here's me putting my dvd's in it......

randomletters

probably the online part, lastest 1up preview said the single player game is at a very polish stage but they cant access the online. I hope the delay will add trophies support or something

Gitarooman

are you kidding me.... it was supposed to launch in fucking january... then may.. then august.. now winter? learn to code damn it.

oh well back to wipeout pulse for 5 more months

pharcotix

@phicaluk: That mate me spit coke on my screen, thanks a lot buddy.

randomletters

Damn, i was so eager to play this! ;(

HelderP

Oh, I bet the "specific technical problem" is every time they try to boot it up, the game calls Microsoft to negotiate a release of WipEout HD on the 360. I guess that's what happens when you use recycled code from Final Fantasy XIII.

Salen

Seriously. It's little cyber-carts moving forward. What's so hard to do? Even on a PS3.

lumpi

Ugh. One of the few games I was really looking forward to on the PS3. I still play the trailer once in a while in anticipation. But this explains why it was MIA at the show.

I really hope the epileptic / motion-sickness theories are FUD. Otherwise just slap a disclaimer on the box and get on with it!

TKWarrior

@Luke Plunkett:
It could be true:) Wipeout HD has a very "flashy"mode where the game music/track and enviroment change as you go along faster and faster.

enewtabie

@Salen:
lol..My Live fee would go up to $160 if a XBLA arcade game had to do 60FPS and 1080p.

enewtabie

Aw, I was really looking forward to playing it this summer. :(

ƒox

I think what they mean is that it still is impossibly hard to play :O

infi

@snakepliskin: So do I ... heh heh heh. (was I supposed to let that slide?)

janine

Maybe this game pushes the CELL processor to new uncharted levels and it starts to produce Stranglet particles ala the CERN super collider that create small black holes inside the PS3 that will ripe apart the fabric of space time and make the universe cease to exit. Or, it could give people lethal epileptic attacks. You never know.

Malevolentburrito

crap!

scdnyc

It's biggest problem is it's too awesome.

Leftoverz

Control + Alt + Delete usually works for me. I knew something was awry as we hadn't heard anything of late the the psn trailer says summer 08. This is a win for fatal inertia no?

Punkateer

Well, that's a strange way to say "The game isn't finished".

agustin2489

le sigh...

All I want to do is drink beer and play this game.

D2point0

@ハリセンボン: Excellent :P

Aex

technical problem = sony is busy doing other games and doesnt have time for this right now

EMPEROR_COW

Technical problem being that it's technically the same game as every other Wipeout? :)

Leathersoup

Who wants to buy a ps3 - I'm done.

terraform

This is a game that I would BUY A PS3 FOR. If it plays ANYWHERE near as nice as Pure and Pulse that is.

Human Bomb

There 2009 lineup is light so they want to wait until after March 18th for the new fiscal year?

cats_pajamas

@Leathersoup: It is the same as every other one, the tracks are borrowed from the psp version.

Now I heard that WipeoutHD uses so much of the potential of the PS3, that it overheats and kills the cpu/gpu.

Lyme

@Lyme: That would not be surpring cause they are now relying in the disc size to keep the graphics standars of the 360, more a gpu issue than a cpu...

TOCATL

@GHz:

I don't mind getting my seize on for this game...

cmcginn

I think the AI is developing a mind of its own and is wiping out all PS3s in the building.

gencid

Crazy. If only they'd say exactly what it is. I don't know why that stuff is secret.

Ryodestined

@GHz: really? i know it sounds dumb, but i'd like to play that haha

pandafresh

I hope they sort it out soon!

FillionSmythe