Kazunouri Yamauchi of Polyphony Digital took the stage during Sony's E3 press conference to unveil the long awaited Gran Turismo on PSP. He played the game live on a PSP Go console to demonstrate it was working today and ran at 60 FPS.
Yamauchi promised the full Gran Turismo experience, not something reduced for the PSP. The game will feature time and drift challenges and a licensing mode to go along with the regular races. Gran Turismo PSP will also have over 800 cars and 35 tracks. Using AdHoc mode, players can race with three other users or trade, share and even unlock cars together. Gran Turismo PSP will be available on October 1.
With that announcement finalized, Hideo Kojima came on stage to unveil Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker. The PSP game will take place in the 1970s, about a decade after the events of Metal Gear Solid 3. Kojima promised that he will be involved with the story and will work with the team that created Metal Gear Solid 4 on the project.
The trailer for Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker showed an assault on Costa Rica. Solid Snake is shown creeping along roof tops and performing stealth kills. Big Boss clones are seen skulking about, and it is promised that the game will be the "missing link" in the story's history. Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker will release on PSP in 2010.
Sony then launched a video montage of various PSP titles coming in the next year, including LittleBigPlanet, Motorstorm Arctic Edge, Dissidia: Final Fantasy, SOCOM Fireteam Bravo 3, Soul Calibur Broken Destiny, Shin Megami Tensei: Persona, Warriors Orochi 2 and echocrono. A Resident Evil title specifically designed for PSP will also be coming in 2010 and Fat Princess was also revealed to be in development for PSP.
PSP Assaulted by Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker, Gran Turismo
Posted June 2, 2009 by David Radd
David Radd has worked as a gaming journalist since 2004 at sites such as GamerFeed, Gigex and GameDaily Biz.
2 Comments
June 2, 2009
It's kind of bizarre to me that Metal Gear fans will now need to own three current-gen systems to experience the entire MG saga. MGS4 is PS3 exclusive, Peace Walker PSP exclusive, Rising 360 exclusive.
June 3, 2009
Kojima Productions sure loves it some PSP, with the two Ac!ds, Portable Ops + expansion, digital comic and now this. It wouldn't surprise me if MGS: Rising came to 360 first then PS3 later, but not doing that would be par for Kojima's wacky course.