Some of you wrote to us this weekend wondering why the hell Amazon (or the online retailer of your choosing) cancelled your PSP-3000 pre-order. Well, if you were one of the dozens, if not hundreds, who opted for the 4GB Memory PSP Entertainment Pack — which featured a PSP 3000 and 4GB Memory Stick Pro Duo — Sony cancelling the release of said Entertainment Pack is the reason why. No, they’re not abandoning the thing entirely to fix that little screen issue.
With the PlayStation 2 port of High Impact’s excellent PSP take on the Ratchet & Clank series just a week away, the official PlayStation Blog posts some details about the game’s multiplayer. PS2 Size Matters takes the same amusing multiplayer functionality from the PSP version and splits it in two for split-screen goodness between you and a friend. You get four maps – Island Escape, Danger Valley, Mega Cannons, and Moon Cow Disease – complete with the Iron Lombax special challenges for each map. Personally I miss my R&C online multiplayer, but how much can you really expect from a $US 29.99 port of a PSP game?
Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters PS2 Multiplayer Details [PlayStation Blog]
Looks like Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters appearance on the PlayStation 2 isn’t just a well-founded rumour. A recent PlayStation Underground e-mail update shows the former PSP-only game will get the PS2-port treatment, but provides nothing in the way of upgrade details or specific release date. Gamestop says we’ll get it in March, Amazon says February. So far, no release date from Sony themselves.
Not so long ago we mentioned a rumor that Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters might come from the PSP to the PS2 after it had appeared on GameStop’s website for $US 29.99 with a February 2008 ship date.
Now the plot thickens! While we’ve heard nothing official from Sony or Insomniac regarding the title, GameSpot has updated their page with box art. And even the ESRB has jumped on board by adding the title to their database.
While Size Matters may have induced my most heartbreaking gaming moment of 2007, it also gave me the best experience on the PSP this year. And the experience was complete enough to imagine it on a full-blown console.
I’m just curious—the PSP version of Size Matters used a larger Ratchet to make up for screen size. Will Insomniac tweak the perspective? The PS2′s beefier processing power should certainly support a wider level view and a smaller protagonist, so I’m guessing that they will. As for the brilliant “size matters” pun, that part might not translate so well.
Gamestop [via siliconera]
it’s easy to look forward to the bright and beautiful future or look back to good times had by all. But sometimes the more cynical route is the more real, and learning from our past transgressions is the only way to kick ourselves when we make the same future mistakes.
In that particular mindset, we’d like to know your worst gaming moment of 2007—when a bad glitch that had no right to be in a sold copy of a game ruined the experience for you (funny glitches are also acceptable, but frowned upon by our emo side). My personal worst glitch was during Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters (PSP). Some sort of bug occurred about 2/3 through the game while saving, corrupting my progress file. It translated to several lost hours, especially since I’m a gun upgrade whore, and was a big enough blow that I put down the game for good. I tried once to rekindle the magic, but alas, it was gone. And I loved that game.
So what about your worst glitch of 2007? Hit the comments and let us hear it. Then we’ll cry together, trash our distant relatives and feel better about ourselves, as is tradition during the holidays.
