QuickJump QuickPeek 83: Getting our fair share of slim industry pickings, games making up for lying low

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QuickJump QuickPeek 83: Getting our fair share of slim industry pickings, games making up for lying low

August 2nd, 2009 Leave a comment Go to comments

Surprisingly, we’ve got quite some bare pickings from the industry this week. Guess what comes down must go up. If last week we’ve had software/hardware dilemmas in terms of quantity, this week, we’ve got them updates by the truckloads, and the Industry News section takes the backseat.

It’s still a hefty QuickPeek issue, though, thanks to the issues and controversies that we never run out of. We’ve got delayed games (a whole lot of them), announcement of new ones/ revival of old ones, more of that hardware rumor (no point going Slim on them, if you get my drift), and confirmations of supposed rumors that yes, they are indeed rumors.

What an entertaining bunch of Warriors we’ve got

For this week, we’re taking a step back from the actual PSP hardware and focusing instead on its lifeblood: the games. Speaking of games, anybody tried out the Dissidia: Final Fantasy demo yet? I was feeling pretty confident in challenging the other QJ bloggers to try and face my blank-faced Onion Knight (seriously, his face is a mask of emotionlessness that can’t be penetrated by mortal eyes) but then I found out that the demo didn’t have multiplayer. Bummer, that. Anyway, on to the recap!

Link: PSP Weekend Warrior

The various coders working on JPCSP have done some rather excellent work on this Java-based PSP emulator, and it seems they’re showing no signs of slowing down. This week alone we saw three revisions pass through these pages. Same thing with everybody working on bringing more and more homebrew to the PSP-3000. A pair of 3000-centric homebrew apps were released this week as well, including one that let CFWEnabler users to play PSX games. Read on for the rest of the PSP Homebrew Weekend Warrior.

Link: PSP Homebrew Weekend Warrior

Have you heard? The PS3’s manufacturing costs are now down by around 70 . Will Sony be able to parlay it into a price cut? Nobody knows except for the company’s bigwigs, and they aren’t telling us anything. Not yet anyway. Hey, at least we know that there’ll be new controller colors come October. That, and the fact that there are still loads of great PS3 titles lined up, some of which made waves on the PS3 blog this …Read the whole story on QJ.net