@The Wreckard: Ok..wrong person..

enewtabie(Future LittleBigPlanet Master Creationist)

That is pretty cool at least they're doing something as far as integrating the hardware and software between both the PSP and PS3 I own both and am a huge Resistance fan, not even sure if that appeals to me THAT much though. Pretty cool nonetheless. Better than nothing.

ScorpiuS41

@The Wreckard:
The Ratchet and Clank size matters pack is available next Tuesday for $199.

The core pack with 4gb memory card will be in Nov.

enewtabie(Future LittleBigPlanet Master Creationist)

this is sounding cooler and cooler! retribution is definitely a gamefly now, maybe even a buy >.>

demonknightinuyasha

Nice!

sascha23

It's like STD for your PSP!

firstworldman

It always strikes me as a little odd, when I consider playing a hand-held game connected to my console. Not only am I tethered to the little black slab underneath my TV, but I'm staring at a screen that's about 4 inches in size - while right next to me is a screen 40 inches.

Don't get me wrong, I like a good hand-held game just as much as the next guy; but I play them when I'm not @ home. It's like taking one step forward and two step backwards, but I gotta' commend Sony for the progression of the PSP (allowing it to hook-up to a TV, and now allowing us to use a PS3 controller with certain games.)

Still... hm

kosbee

about time they did more usefull stuff with psp ps3 connection

IceColdEskimo

I read that the abilities last until you power off the PSP.
I imagine you would have to add extra "exploration" or one could finish the campaign very quickly.

I'm in, though I wonder how they explain the "uninfection." Does he wake up like from a dream or something. Or maybe there is an antidote aspect to R2 that we don't know about...

EricStratton-RushChair

@phantomlink: It will work on all PSP's. I think the only thing that only works on PSP 2000's and 3000's is Skype. Everything else works on all 3.

The Wreckard

@kosbee: Oh sorry - the core pack (the black one) comes out at the end of November.

The Wreckard

@kosbee: It comes out next week.

The Wreckard

Sounds pretty clever to me. Don't know if its a selling point though.

chuckbanzai

@kathartik:

Does it only work on psp 3000's? Didn't pay much attention to this game because I didnt' have a PSP, but I got one now so it seems like it might be interesting

phantomlink

On a slightly similar note... Is that PSP 3000 even out? The black bundle that is...

kosbee

looks like I'll have to be stealing my wife's PSP instead of using my own for this one...

kathartik

@TitillatedOcelot: ...in a good way! I love the Resistance games. Adorable bunny phlegm. That's what I meant...

TitillatedOcelot

@Royal_Highness: Yeah, but only beacause the PS3 game is already plenty phlegmed up.

TitillatedOcelot

ha, thats pretty cool! Letting the players explore more with the breathing underwater is awesome!

excel_excel

so only the psp version gets infected?

Royal_Highness

@firstworldman: Comment of the week?

Spyder01

Sweet. Insomniac always knows how to keep getting my money.

Mister_Jack

I REALLY don't get Resistance. What makes it appealing, more so than Halo... aside from "It's not Halo."

Edge of Blade

why does Sony wants us to infect a perfectly healthy British guy with a virus!?

thats just kind of mean Sony!

Captain Fury

@shadow763: When I rented Resistance, the game felt wierd to me.

For example, in Halo, the gun feels like it bobs with you, while I felt like my guns were fixed to my shoulder in Resistance....if that makes sense. It felt stiff to me.

Though it sounds like I'm a Microsoft parrot, I felt like I could get into the skin of Master Chief and relate to the "space" the character took up, but Hale felt like I was remote controlling a robot with a camera bolted to his head. The sense of relation was just all off.

I don't want to bash one way or the other, but I obviously enjoyed most of Halo and disliked Resistance.

Edge of Blade

does it work on the PSP 1000's??

Hand_O_Death

@Edge of Blade: Insomniac are geniuses at coming up with fun and unique weapons.

Mister_Jack

@Edge of Blade: Well it is fun I guess is one way to look at it. The enemies are more interesting then in Halo. Its a more gritty universe, and the new one just looks huge. The Halo series went from wide open areas to battle in to corridors dressed up as jungle environments.

shadow763

@kosbee: It might be a one time connection thing.

Mister_Jack

Let's hope this works through a registration code so hackers can't get access to it.

Mit

Oh that's weird, and I'm all for it.

Wolfers

@Mister_Jack:

you cant go wrong with 8 player online coop and 60 man online battles

Captain Fury

Just to re-iterate my previous point a little more clearly, the way I see it is that you're not getting "a bit more value our of your copy of Resistance: Retribution...if you also own a copy of Resistance 2 for the PlayStation 3", you're instead being punished by having parts of the game locked out if you don't own the above.

Just... Evil.

SunScramble

So, the game content is all there on the disk, but you you have to buy a PS3 and a copy of a second game to access it?

Couldn't they just do it the old fashioned way, with cheat codes or some kind of hard to achieve in-game goals?

Call me a spoil-sport, but I really don't like the idea of having to buy extra stuff to get at content I've already paid for when I bought the damn disk.

(And that goes doubly so for the kind of crap they've been pulling with the SoulCalibur games. You've spent your time developing this content, we've spent our money paying for it. We're not getting a "Bonus Star Wars Character" depending on our platform choice, you're punishing us by arbitrarily cutting a character out of the complete game you developed, depending on our platform choice.)

SunScramble

@SunScramble: It's likely you'll be able to download a save file with an infection. So really, it's a matter of not playing by the rules if you lack R2 or a PS3.

HikariOblivion

I cannot understand all the people saying, "this is so cool." This basically limits your ability to use features included in the game because you don't want to drop another $50 on some PSP game. I really hate stuff like this.

Hamsfork

@chuckbanzai: Eh? what do you want?!

It has me sold.

Iam getting resistance 2 and after hearing this i'm defo getting retribution.

GOD

@The Wreckard:
With the PSP 2000 and 3000 series you can play it on your tv with your sixaxis. [kotaku.com]

Treefingers

@Hamsfork: Er..the other way around. You shouldn't have to drop another $60 on a ps3 game to get all the features of your psp game.

Hamsfork

This is AWESOME! And, to SunScramble, you are being pessimistic. These things were never revealed to be in the game, and we were perfectly happy without them. This is more like a special gift to true fans than anything else. I LOVE this!

Ansem

Pessimistic, maybe.

Just because they were never announced to be in the final game, though, doesn't mean they're nice added gifts to us. (Unless I missed the news release where they revealed every single last bit of game content to the public in advance of it's launch.)

Personally, I view this as being in the same boat as publishers who might theoretically cut content out of finished games to sell them back to us later as DLC.

It's not quite as outright evil as the above example, but I still consider locking out parts of a finished game, unless a companion product is bought, as pretty cynical, and it's definitely not something I'd celebrate.

SunScramble

This is awesome I am getting both. I'm glad Sony is finally making the best of both systems and I hope the features announced for this game are just the begining for PS3/PSP ineraction!

ShikhaNareen