Rumor: Oblivion is, in fact, coming to PSP

[F9zDark]

Release date 3/15/07...check it out.

That means very little. Game stores throw a release date on their site the instant even a half-assed-reliable source says so.

I could pose as a member of the Bethesda staff and tell Ebgames about a ton of games that are coming down the pipe and when they will be released and they would be none the wiser and place it all on their site and begin taking preorders without even verifying the information...

[Skye]

If it were going to come out I'd buy it. ;D

[Cap'n 1time]

A little bit? Are you kidding? The PSP is 333 megahertz with a 333 megahertz media engine(sound only, as far as I know), a whopping 32 megabytes of main memory and 4 megs of DRAM.

Aside from that, the PSP VPU doesn't process even 1/3 of what Half-Life 2 and Oblivion require.

Don't hold your breath people, it is never going to happen...

1up seems to think so...
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3152424&did=1

so does ebgames...
http://www.ebgames.com/product.asp?product%5Fid=190345

It probably wont be nearly the same as the pc and x360 version... but i think it will still prove to be a good release. bethesda always brings us quallity games.

[NeoXCS]

Jeesh F9zDark stop freaking out like its not at all possible. They obviously aren't going to port it over exactly as is. But im sure they will optimize it specially for the PSP if they do. Besides a PC and a PSP are much different in terms of hardware. If I played something of GTA: LCS quality on a 333mhz PC with 32 MB of ram it would just choke and die!

[ACID]

If this is true i will buy it even if it was 70 usd. I love the series.

[jason867]

Wow, oblivion on psp. I don't know how they'd pull it off succesfully. Seems like they'd have to obliterate everything that made oblivion oblivion. I have to say though, if they pull it off and make it as fun as the pc version seems to be (I've never played it), I'll do anything Sony wants to play it, including giving up homebrew for good...but I doubt that It'll be that good, if it's even for real...

[Xiro]

Wow, oblivion on psp. I don't know how they'd pull it off succesfully. Seems like they'd have to obliterate everything that made oblivion oblivion. I have to say though, if they pull it off and make it as fun as the pc version seems to be (I've never played it), I'll do anything Sony wants to play it, including giving up homebrew for good...but I doubt that It'll be that good, if it's even for real...

thats what i was waiting for someone to say as i read through this thread. Sony needs to stop enticing users with stupid updates like GPS and a camera and RSS feed, and actually come out with GAMES that only run on a higher firmware.

I bought my psp mainly for games and quite frankly i've been using it as an emulator and movie player. Why can't sony just release a killer app that makes us upgrade? Why come out with stupid upgrades like RSS?

[Voltron]

Don't hold your breath people, it is never going to happen...

Well, look what they did with Tekken 5. They made Tekken Dark Resurrection for the PSP and that is an even better game than Tekken 5 on the PS2. Sure the visuals are not as fine tuned as PS2, but scaled down to the PSP, a lot can be done.

[gangsta_psp]

It will probably be fun (if its true), but dont expect a perfect port.

[ArugulaZ]

So what if it's listed on EB Games? They also listed Chulip for the PS2 three years ago. I'm still waiting for it!

If you've ever played Oblivion, you'd know that porting it to the PSP without a SIGNIFICANT reduction in quality is impossible. Hell, sometimes the game is even too much for the Xbox 360 to handle!

This is wishful thinking on EB Games' part. If Bethesda is foolish enough to try to bring the game to the PSP, it will be so simplified that it will be Oblivion in name only.

JR