PSVita (Successor to PSP, was PSP2 then NGP)

[J0e Musashi]

It's been on PSN for ages.

[sj33]

I was going to say three tracks and five cars is hilarious but I'm perfectly fine with Daytona and Sega Rally doing a similar thing(heck, Daytona has one car. And a horse.) so as long as the tracks are fun to play then I don't see a problem.

For me, I've never played Ridge religiously with the idea of shaving ms off my lap time and didn't love any of the tracks themselves in the way I love SR's Desert course, say. If I actually played Ridge more, maybe I'd find particular tracks I just loved to race around.

@ Shakey: Internet seems to think the RR games on PSP were 60fps but I never felt that when playing RR1 and thought it was 30fps.

I would say the problem here though is that these are not new courses, Namco have recycled old courses again. If it was the case that Namco were trying to go for a more 'focused' experience like Sega Rally or Daytona, then fair enough... but I don't think anyone believes that this is the case here.

[C']

It's been on PSN for ages.

You're right!

I remember reading about the original going up on the store but never saw the sequel announced. Now I need a JP PSN card so I can play this on my Go (or for Namco to publish it on the UK store << I managed to type that out without bursting out laughing). It's the one game I've missed when my PSP 2000 went into storage.

[J0e Musashi]

We shouldn't really write it off yet. Perhaps the five cars are one of each style, and then you select which type you want as in Ridge Racer Revolution, with cars getting faster as you progress. TBH in the more recent games most of the cars are just reskins anyway. If you play RR properly you can't even see your car on-screen, so it matters not what it looks like. The same thing might be said of the courses, where there are different hidrances depeding on what difficulty you're on. Once somebody has played it, then we can attack it.

[teddymeow]

Just cancelled my pre-order. A bit of thinking and the realisation of how much more I can get at the EU launch have swayed me.

[Fuddle]

I was going to say three tracks and five cars is hilarious but I'm perfectly fine with Daytona and Sega Rally doing a similar thing(heck, Daytona has one car. And a horse.) so as long as the tracks are fun to play then I don't see a problem.

daytona only costs 6 quid though. this is ?2,980 (psn launch price only, presumably it will go up)

we'll have to see what dlc comes out, and perhaps (hopefully) some will be included by the time it releases in the west.

http://andriasang.com/comz2b/ridge_racer_courses/

[Neon Ignition]

Funnily enough, I just got RR2 on me PSP, lol. Sadly, it's much worse than Daytona etc because of the price attached to it. Should have been a PSN/Vita combi release for roughly ?6. The DLC will see the overall price skyrocket just to get anywhere near the content levels of previous releases even without new tracks. For the main RR series it's now a case of waiting to see if the WiiU gets one.

[Atticus]

Just cancelled my pre-order.

Think I'm going to go down the same route.

Ridge was a biggie for me. Now it's too much of a gamble based on that news.

And I ain't Kenny Rogers.

[teddymeow]

Think I'm going to go down the same route.

Ridge was a biggie for me. Now it's too much of a gamble based on that news.

And I ain't Kenny Rogers.

Coupled with the fact that it's unknown if Uncharted will have English language and I'm out.

Bugger.

[J0e Musashi]

Uncharted 1, 2 and 3 have had full English support. I reckon the Vita game will too.

[dvdx2]

Uncharted 1, 2 and 3 have had full English support. I reckon the Vita game will too.

I doubt the language would really be a barrier anyhow - arent all the puzzles shown in the journal anyway in pictures?

UC3 was a disaster for me and put me right off the franchise - I really couldnt take another one anytime soon (especially if they use the same aiming system as UC3).

[Party boy]

Uncharted 1, 2 and 3 have had full English support. I reckon the Vita game will too.

Yeah, but they all came on Blu-ray, how big's the storage medium that Vita games come on? I read Uncharted is nearly 4GB, and it has no inbuilt saving, so could be that they're struggling for space? But I'm sure Blu-ray's are a lot bigger than what Vita uses at any rate.

As for Ridge Racer, you'd almost think it must have been translated wrong or it was just a demo, but then it sounds like they didn't have much time. It sounds like it won't have enough tracks for a career mode and so won't add one no matter how much DLC you DL.

[J0e Musashi]

Considering UMD can hold a maximum of 1.8GB, and there are many dual language games. I'm quite sure they'd be able to do the same with NVG cards, which are 2GB at their smallest.

[dvdx2]

[QUOTE=Party boy;1906899As for Ridge Racer, you'd almost think it must have been translated wrong or it was just a demo, but then it sounds like they didn't have much time. It sounds like it won't have enough tracks for a career mode and so won't add one no matter how much DLC you DL.[/QUOTE]

good point, i was thinking that myself - how can you release a game with 3 tracks in this day and age?

[Family Fry]

Game is being released for a lower price of ?3,980 retail (around ?33). ?3,580 digital (around ?29) although the digital version is on offer until March 31st priced at ?2,980 (around ?24), article said.

"One of the tradeoffs for the low price appears to be content. The sites report that the event build had just five cars and three courses, and this will be true for the final version as well."

The reason behind 3 tracks and low starting price will be to sell Paid DLC for the game.
Then again there was an earlier leak saying there would be free DLC from December-April, so maybe course and cars will be free and they have just rushed it for launch.