Wipeout Pure; new info on downloadable content

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TOKYO--While it is already known that Wipeout Pure for the PSP will get downloadable content, some new details have leaked from Japan. According to retail sources, Sony plans to release roughly two new courses, hovercraft, and soundtrack songs each month. While the hovercraft and the songs will only require a few kilobytes on the Memory Stick, each course will be about 4MB, meaning that the monthly updates will probably be around 8MB apiece.

According to plans disclosed to Japanese game merchants, Sony is considering distributing new data for Wipeout Pure for at least six months after its release. The rough calculation of 48MB of updates during the six-month period suggests that gamers probably won't be able to fit in all the updates into the default 32MB Memory Stick that comes included with the PSP value pack. This means gamers will either have to buy additional Memory Sticks in stores, or just transfer some of the old data to their PC.

For more details on Wipeout Pure, race on over to GameSpot's updated hands-on impressions of the game, which will launch alongside the PSP on March 24.
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I wonder what the delivery system will be like. I predict it won't work for at least 2 months, and by the time they get the kinks worked out, nobody will care.
 
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Nope, the delivery has been explained when they presented the game:
you download on the game site with your PC and transfer to the PSP either via the USB cable or using a MS reader. No direct connection with PSP afaik
 
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PinkPeach said:
Nope, the delivery has been explained when they presented the game:
you download on the game site with your PC and transfer to the PSP either via the USB cable or using a MS reader. No direct connection with PSP afaik
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Hrm, if that's the case, then why include wi-fi support with the PSP? Seems like a bit of a waste to me, but who knows?
 
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squareh4t3r said:
Hrm, if that's the case, then why include wi-fi support with the PSP? Seems like a bit of a waste to me, but who knows?
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Wifi on the PSP is for multiplayer mainly in infrastructure mode. Internet mode is for an extra when you can catch an access point.

Allowing people to get downloadable content via wifi in internet mode is not convenient for those without a wifi access point.
For example in france outside paris there are near to none in public access and wifi routers for your home cannot be found easily. In japan, outside the big cities that s the same thing and i guess in USA in the middle of Wisconsin that s the same too.

Having access to a PC with internet and a USB port is on the other side verry verry easy quite everywhere.

Allowing both would be clever, but since the current devkit doesn t have internet code, they would have to develop it like EA did, and that meant pushing to later the release (and that costs money for few people with wifi acces point but no access to a PC with internet).
 
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PinkPeach said:
Because it s not convenient for people without a wifi access point (for example in france outside paris there are near to none in public access and wifi routers for your home cannot be found easily). In japan, outside the big cities that s the same thing (i guess in USA in the middle of Wisconsin that s the same too). Having access to a PC with internet and a USB port is on the other side verry verry easy quite everywhere.
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Fair enough, I suppose. I assume that you could also just get a memory stick reader for your PC and copy the files directly onto the memory stick for your PSP as well.
 
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