That brings us back to my concern from the beginning of this preview. In short, this is the Fat Princess experience boiled down to the palm of your hand. The game runs really well while keeping the same bright visuals, charming British announcer, player quips and sound effects from the PS3 game. After a handful of matches this afternoon, I can tell you that I haven't seen that stutter. ![]() When I played Fat Princess PSP back in August, I noticed some chugging when things would really get going – the action just seemed to slow down. What's new with this build is how good it looks. There are other modes such as the Grim Reaper versus everyone, various heart counters to worry about, and the astounding fact that nearly everything from the PS3 version is here (sorry, no voicechat), but IGN has covered that stuff to death in its previous Fistful of Cake previews. The goal is to traverse the map, get your princess and carry her home, but the opponent is usually force-feeding her cake to make her fatter and heavier so your team won't be able to move the lady easily. Red goo will splatter on the ground and other players, there are magical powers for some to use, and an upgraded archer packs a powerful shotgun. Players – eight humans online mixed with eight computer-controlled ones – then put on hats for various classes, run across the battlefield, and hack each other into bloody, bloody bits. ![]() When the most basic game mode starts, the red princess is in the blue castle and the blue princess is in the red castle. Is this really a UMD you need to have? If you've missed the Fat Princess boat, the gist is this: there's a red team and blue team of cartoony characters and they exist on these bright, Animal Crossing-like worlds. I mean this is almost everything that was cool about the PlayStation 3 version that I gave a 9.0 plus some new content, but the PS3 release is coming up on its first birthday. Now, on the doorstep of spring, a UMD version of Fat Princess has arrived on my desk, and although I'm happy to have the fatty back in my life, one has to wonder if the delay has been for the best. So let me pose this question to you (feel free to leave comments at the bottom of the article): When does the PlayStation 3 need a price drop by, and by how much does it need to be chopped down? Can you imagine a world where you could go out and pick up a brand-new PS3 for $300? Less? With all this said, if the older and current PlayStation 3 models do receive a nice little wing clip, how much do you think Sony would position its new PlayStation 3 Slim hardware for at retail? Enquiring minds want to know! Cheers.Well, fall came and went without a peep about the princess. Those of us that have already bought PlayStation 3 machines are okay, but those potential consumers that are on the fence need a little bit of a carrot dangling in front of their debit cards. It just doesn't make sense for Sony to cling onto the $400 price tag much longer. If a scenario occurs where the Xbox 360 drops further in price this year, and the PlayStation 3 doesn't, then Sony could well be facing a rough third and fourth quarter of a year that has been financially trying for almost the entire planet. LOL at the silver PS3 with boomerang controller and the blackened Wii. For one thing, it acts as a super-cheap replacement for any out-of-warranty 360 hardware failures, and is the perfect gateway console in Microsoft's arsenal. It's not known what might happen to the cheap-as-you-like Xbox 360 Arcade pack, but that's unlikely to go away completely. This doubles the size of the hard drive storage space, meaning that once those Microsoft Games on Demand digital downloads become available, gamers will be more likely to purchase and download bigger files. ![]() More speculation suggests that Microsoft will essentially replace the Xbox 360 Pro hardware (the white console) with the Xbox 360 Elite package instead. And while it is unlikely that Nintendo will alter the price tag on its incredibly popular Wii, Sony's more direct competitor Microsoft may well be looking at doing something similar with the Xbox 360. Numerous other reports, comments and editorials have been posted over the past couple of months and for once it seems like everyone's got the same opinion: The PlayStation 3 is long overdue for a cut.
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