[1/10] 笼罩PSP的巨大阴影名叫EA！？

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EA妄图在PSP上实现其野心？

以下转自IGN

It looks to be that Electronic Arts has been waiting, just waiting, for the paradigm shift that PlayStation Portable is attempting pull off with handheld gamers. EA needs a handheld that can play the kinds of games that are EA's bread and butter -- big and fast and exhilarating games, with tons of options and extra features for in-the-game feel, all punched out at the player with an immersive experiences of light and sound -- and PSP is all of that, nicely toasted.

It's not just the power that EA is excited about with this handheld. The Sony name and the Sony design brings with it the Sony customer, and if SCE can do with PSP even a fraction of what it did with PlayStation in the mass audience, that's EA's kind of crowd. Particularly when it comes to sports, this could be a big change -- even when they're good, handheld gamers just don't buy sports games. It's strange -- sports on the go seems to make perfect sense for that seventh inning stretch or tailgate party -- but except for character-based sports titles, it's rare for a handheld sports game to be a hit. Some might say that it's the lack of support that's kept sports fans away, but we've seen some great pocket sports games, and they just haven't been hits. Either way you look at this chicken-and-egg situation, it's still doing you no good as a gamer if you can't find another player to go multiplayer with when nobody has the games.

Just look at the numbers: for the Game Boy Color, the company just licensed out its sports title names to other publishers; with GBA, the company did four sports across eight EA Sports games. With PlayStation Portable, the company is planning to deliver five sports games at launch alone, and that can't be the end of it for 2005. With the new crop of handhelds, and particularly with PlayStation Portable, EA is leading the charge to make sports fans get up on their feet for handheld gaming. Add NFSU Rivals to those five sports games and you have, just from Electronic Arts, one of the strongest launch line-ups for any game system.

EA debuted all six of its launch games for PSP here at CES in Vegas, and we've gotten a chance to go hands-on with the titles for impressions and media updates of the games in action. This was the first time many of these games have been out of the game developers' offices, and while each still has a lot of work to be done getting them done just how you like them, this preliminary work showed off how deep and hot EA wants its PSP games to get. Access to all six of EA's PSP games shown here at CES is set up for you to browse in the index below.