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The PSP will feature the ability to play games on your PS2, move the saves over to the PSP and play them on the move too. Sony want most of the PSP games that will feature this to be new titles.
From another site
"Speaking with Mainichi Shimbun in Japan, Sony's corporate executive officer in charge of marketing, Fumiya Takeno, said that the PSP would feature connectivity with the PS2 and PSX home consoles.
This feature would allow games to be played on the home systems, with save games being moved to the PSP so that play could be continued on the handheld system - exploiting the fact that the PSP's hardware is broadly similar in specification to the PS2.
In order to use this system, developers will have to write compatible games for both the PS2 and PSP, and it's unclear whether Sony is proposing that these titles should be sold separately or in a single package.
However, it is known that porting code from the PS2 to the PSP is extremely easy, and in fact developers working on PSP titles in the UK have told us that moving their games and engines to the handheld system from the PS2 has turned out to be a surprisingly simple task - even without full specification development kits.
Takeno-san also confirmed to Mainichi that the company is placing a heavy emphasis on the development of new titles for the PSP, rather than the porting of existing PS2 software. It's previously been rumoured that Sony will be strictly vetting all PS2 ports on the system in the first six months to a year of its launch, in an attempt to avoid it being labelled as a shovelware PS2 port system by consumers and the media."
Personally I can see a lot of potential in terms of game creation from this. You could have games that require you to play parts on the PS2 and other parts using the PSP, so that you could play different parts at home and when you are out using the PSP.
Also if you can connect the PSP to the PS2 then there could be the ability to access the online network, I doubt it would allow you to play games online but perhaps instead to upload top scores or download small content or updates for the PSP.
Lets just hope the cost of the PSP and games can be low enough to allow us gamers to experience it all.
From another site
"Speaking with Mainichi Shimbun in Japan, Sony's corporate executive officer in charge of marketing, Fumiya Takeno, said that the PSP would feature connectivity with the PS2 and PSX home consoles.
This feature would allow games to be played on the home systems, with save games being moved to the PSP so that play could be continued on the handheld system - exploiting the fact that the PSP's hardware is broadly similar in specification to the PS2.
In order to use this system, developers will have to write compatible games for both the PS2 and PSP, and it's unclear whether Sony is proposing that these titles should be sold separately or in a single package.
However, it is known that porting code from the PS2 to the PSP is extremely easy, and in fact developers working on PSP titles in the UK have told us that moving their games and engines to the handheld system from the PS2 has turned out to be a surprisingly simple task - even without full specification development kits.
Takeno-san also confirmed to Mainichi that the company is placing a heavy emphasis on the development of new titles for the PSP, rather than the porting of existing PS2 software. It's previously been rumoured that Sony will be strictly vetting all PS2 ports on the system in the first six months to a year of its launch, in an attempt to avoid it being labelled as a shovelware PS2 port system by consumers and the media."
Personally I can see a lot of potential in terms of game creation from this. You could have games that require you to play parts on the PS2 and other parts using the PSP, so that you could play different parts at home and when you are out using the PSP.
Also if you can connect the PSP to the PS2 then there could be the ability to access the online network, I doubt it would allow you to play games online but perhaps instead to upload top scores or download small content or updates for the PSP.
Lets just hope the cost of the PSP and games can be low enough to allow us gamers to experience it all.
I dont see the point in the connectivity.
If i want a game i will buy it once, not twice.
I am a owner of a ps2 and if I ever get a PSP i wont buy for example Fifa 2005 for both machines.
If I want a game for the PSP, I want an original game or at least an original entry in a famous franchise.
And besides who wants a game with washed out graphics compared to the ps2 version.
It is a good idea, but I think that the it is a feature that should be used when the graphics of each version of the game can be comparable to eachother.
And another thing is that the difference between the gba and the gc games are huge and the difference between the psp and the ps2 will be little.
Most of the gba games is based on 2d so the gameplay is different from its counterpart on the gamecube.
The gameplay on the psp and ps2 will probably be the same.
Sony will have to sell the games in a double package since the public wont buy the same game two times.
If they sell the games in single packages people will probably buy the version they like best wich will hurt the sales of the ps2 or the PSP.
A good idea that Sony could use; is to just make one disc you could use on both consoles.
In the shape it is today, the psp-ps2 connectivity idea is not any better than the gba-gc connection.
If i want a game i will buy it once, not twice.
I am a owner of a ps2 and if I ever get a PSP i wont buy for example Fifa 2005 for both machines.
If I want a game for the PSP, I want an original game or at least an original entry in a famous franchise.
And besides who wants a game with washed out graphics compared to the ps2 version.
It is a good idea, but I think that the it is a feature that should be used when the graphics of each version of the game can be comparable to eachother.
And another thing is that the difference between the gba and the gc games are huge and the difference between the psp and the ps2 will be little.
Most of the gba games is based on 2d so the gameplay is different from its counterpart on the gamecube.
The gameplay on the psp and ps2 will probably be the same.
Sony will have to sell the games in a double package since the public wont buy the same game two times.
If they sell the games in single packages people will probably buy the version they like best wich will hurt the sales of the ps2 or the PSP.
A good idea that Sony could use; is to just make one disc you could use on both consoles.
In the shape it is today, the psp-ps2 connectivity idea is not any better than the gba-gc connection.
So by the time this is actually released we will be getting a portable PS2 (sort of) with the ability to transfer saves etc from the PS2 to the PSP? Whats the point in that? 12 months later the PS3 will be out and no one will give a donkey's about a portable PS2. They could have made a real go of this but the more I read about the more I can't see the point of it.
The PSP will feature the ability to play games on your PS2, move the saves over to the PSP and play them on the move too. Sony want most of the PSP games that will feature this to be new titles.
From another site
"Speaking with Mainichi Shimbun in Japan, Sony's corporate executive officer in charge of marketing, Fumiya Takeno, said that the PSP would feature connectivity with the PS2 and PSX home consoles.
This feature would allow games to be played on the home systems, with save games being moved to the PSP so that play could be continued on the handheld system - exploiting the fact that the PSP's hardware is broadly similar in specification to the PS2.
In order to use this system, developers will have to write compatible games for both the PS2 and PSP, and it's unclear whether Sony is proposing that these titles should be sold separately or in a single package.
However, it is known that porting code from the PS2 to the PSP is extremely easy, and in fact developers working on PSP titles in the UK have told us that moving their games and engines to the handheld system from the PS2 has turned out to be a surprisingly simple task - even without full specification development kits.
Takeno-san also confirmed to Mainichi that the company is placing a heavy emphasis on the development of new titles for the PSP, rather than the porting of existing PS2 software. It's previously been rumoured that Sony will be strictly vetting all PS2 ports on the system in the first six months to a year of its launch, in an attempt to avoid it being labelled as a shovelware PS2 port system by consumers and the media."
Personally I can see a lot of potential in terms of game creation from this. You could have games that require you to play parts on the PS2 and other parts using the PSP, so that you could play different parts at home and when you are out using the PSP.
Also if you can connect the PSP to the PS2 then there could be the ability to access the online network, I doubt it would allow you to play games online but perhaps instead to upload top scores or download small content or updates for the PSP.
Lets just hope the cost of the PSP and games can be low enough to allow us gamers to experience it all.
From another site
"Speaking with Mainichi Shimbun in Japan, Sony's corporate executive officer in charge of marketing, Fumiya Takeno, said that the PSP would feature connectivity with the PS2 and PSX home consoles.
This feature would allow games to be played on the home systems, with save games being moved to the PSP so that play could be continued on the handheld system - exploiting the fact that the PSP's hardware is broadly similar in specification to the PS2.
In order to use this system, developers will have to write compatible games for both the PS2 and PSP, and it's unclear whether Sony is proposing that these titles should be sold separately or in a single package.
However, it is known that porting code from the PS2 to the PSP is extremely easy, and in fact developers working on PSP titles in the UK have told us that moving their games and engines to the handheld system from the PS2 has turned out to be a surprisingly simple task - even without full specification development kits.
Takeno-san also confirmed to Mainichi that the company is placing a heavy emphasis on the development of new titles for the PSP, rather than the porting of existing PS2 software. It's previously been rumoured that Sony will be strictly vetting all PS2 ports on the system in the first six months to a year of its launch, in an attempt to avoid it being labelled as a shovelware PS2 port system by consumers and the media."
Personally I can see a lot of potential in terms of game creation from this. You could have games that require you to play parts on the PS2 and other parts using the PSP, so that you could play different parts at home and when you are out using the PSP.
Also if you can connect the PSP to the PS2 then there could be the ability to access the online network, I doubt it would allow you to play games online but perhaps instead to upload top scores or download small content or updates for the PSP.
Lets just hope the cost of the PSP and games can be low enough to allow us gamers to experience it all.