Comments on: Monster Hunter Portable 3rd Announced For PSP [Update]

By: malek86

malek86 — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:38:13 +0000

In other news, my MH3 arrived juast this morning. Finally. Now I'll have some time to play before this MHF3 comes out :P

By: Hraesvelgr

Hraesvelgr — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:03:15 +0000

I see your point, but the main market in North America for this series is on the PSP, even if it is tiny compared to Japan's.

By: Code

Code — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:00:39 +0000

rar, yeah I know the feeling reply limit gets me too >w<' But yeah true it was kind of an afterthought but your likely right about them dropping the carry over what with them adding infrastructure mode. I have a hard time picturing them charging for infrastructure mode though with PSP, given there's just so many ways around it, with ad hoc.

By: jarrodand

jarrodand — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:19:49 +0000

My old nemesis, reply limit strikes again.

@Code

Oh, I definitely agree. I do think a downspecced Tri engine is doable on PSP, but honestly it probably wouldn't look much if any better than what they're working with already. Adding to the P2G engine definitely makes more sense financially too. I also suspect the "ecosystem" design will make it over from Tri.

And I'm guessing they killed data transfer since they're adding infrastructure, so they likely want everyone starting on the same page. Curious to see what they do about a Hunter's License fee too...

By: malek86

malek86 — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:38:13 +0000

In other news, my MH3 arrived juast this morning. Finally. Now I'll have some time to play before this MHF3 comes out :P

By: Hraesvelgr

Hraesvelgr — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:03:15 +0000

I see your point, but the main market in North America for this series is on the PSP, even if it is tiny compared to Japan's.

By: Code

Code — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:00:39 +0000

By: jarrodand

jarrodand — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:19:49 +0000

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:13:00 +0000

Why a Tegra chip?Nintendo work with ATI since the gamecube? :/

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:13:00 +0000

Why a Tegra chip?Nintendo work with ATI since the gamecube? :/

By: jj984jj

jj984jj — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:16:25 +0000

From the looks of it they're porting most of the new content from Tri back to the old engine that already runs on PSP so they can also bring back old content easily and still add completely new content, that would explain why they removed the underwater segments that cannot run on the old engine.

By: Vagabond

Vagabond — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:17:00 +0000

I’m so happy I can’t stand it.

By: Code

Code — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:38:13 +0000

Well obviously on a visual level it's going to take a hit (you can especially tell when you see the MH3 monsters and areas in the trailer), but that's not really the most important part, the actual coding likely wouldn't be that out of PSP's reach to run a downsized port of MH3. But I figure using the old engine, even if it isn't for compatibility with previous games, is likely so they don't have to adjust the older game's monsters in the new MH3 engine — it's likely easier to add the new monsters to the original engine then to try and implement the MH3 engine onto the PSP and add the old monsters.

I'm a bit surprised to hear that it's not compatible though, and that they would announce something like that considering the game still is in the works and they have over 6 months before release. Not that I have qualms with starting fresh again, just figured it'd be something they'd push for again, or at least minimum a money/tickets transfer like MHF to MHF2.

By: jarrodand

jarrodand — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:40:50 +0000

Nope, they've already said data doesn't carry, despite using what's obviously an upgraded MHP2G engine. Tri is really impressive visually, a direct PSP would need some noticeable downgrading (especially the lighting).

By: Code

Code — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:26:32 +0000

Chances are it's less that the PSP can't run Tri's engine and more that they want it to continue to have compatibility with the previous games in the series so that you can carry your equipment and stats over.