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PSP gets Greatest Hits

Hot Shots Golf, Wipeout Pure spearhead first wave of budget rereleases for Sony's portable; third-party games to be added later this year.

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Sony's Greatest Hits program, where top-selling older titles are rereleased with new packaging and a budget price tag, was officially introduced to the PlayStation Portable today. Effective immediately, five of Sony's first-party PSP games--Wipeout Pure, Twisted Metal: Head On, Ape Escape: On the Loose, ATV Offroad Fury: Blazin' Trails, and Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee--are available for a suggested retail price of $19.99.

While the first wave of hits is limited to first-party games from around the time of the system's March 2005 launch, Sony has said that third-party games will achieve Greatest Hits status later this year. Specifically, Lumines, Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade, Tony Hawk's Underground 2 Remix, Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition, and Star Wars Battlefront II are all due to go easier on gamers' wallets.

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lol this is like when one-hit wonders release greatest hits compilations before Xmas. well-meaning grandmas will buy them and then they will hog the bargain bins two weeks later.

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if tekken DR was 7 months old.

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This is relatively good news for me. Cheaper games are ALWAYS good news to me, heheh. Now, if they'd only drop to price of the system to $150 -- I might buy a PSP within the next year or so if it drops to that price.

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ohh yeah

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Battlefront II and THUG2 Remix will FINALLY get a price drop?! I love you, Sony!

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IMO Hot Shots Golf is the best game on the psp.

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I saw the greatest hits version of Battlefront 2 at target last week. I guess they put it in the case a little early.

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I wanted to pick up wipeout on launch but instead got ridge racer, I think this weekend I will be spending the dough on Hot Shots golf, wipeout pure, and last but not tekken today!!! already having too much fun with socom and syphon filter

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Black Ice Joe..... Hots Shot Golf is easily one of the best games on PSP.... Top 3 in my book Wow! That's really saying something when one of the top 3 PSP games is nothing more than a golf simulator.

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Black Ice Joe..... Hots Shot Golf is easily one of the best games on PSP.... Top 3 in my book

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I guess I will wait a little longer to pick up Star Wars Battlefront II then.I own Wipeout Pure, Twisted Metal: Head On, Ape Escape: On the Loose.so the only game that is 20 dollors that I might pick up is Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee. I hope its good.

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The PSP get sooooo much flack from people, and I just don't know why. I don't own one, because I just don't care for portable gaming much, but I've used one a few times and DS, and gameboy, and it's pretty clear the PSP is superior by FAR to the others. The fact that it doesn't have the nintendo portable machine churning out games behind it, doesn't make it less of a handheld. For people complaining about "new" vs "old"... the quality of the "old" that comes out for the psp is just more entertaining than say... Monster Rancher XVIII. When you break down to truly good games released per year, I'd say nintendo and sony are about tied for their handhelds, except that Nintendo has so many ALREADY. Oh... but of course, they are old. As if that matters. I still play tetris on my phone...

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Just got Midnight Club 3 in the greatest hits package, best buy is already selling it. I think the greatest hits will help selling the psp, i hope they get gta lcs soon.

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Bout time. Will probably only benefit people buying system and picking 1st game to get.

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People like ajac, try the psp properly before you even think of being negative. I've too have enjoyed the look and feel of more than just a scattering of psp games. Every console/system ever made has had bad, cheap and useless games, but in this case the PSP undercuts the usual public rumours+opinions with some good enjoyable titles.

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yea, but greatest hits is for old games, and those are the launch games.

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Old.

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I have enjoyed a lot more PSP games than just those four. Such as Daxter, Exit, Baito Hell 2000, Mega Man Powered Up, Mega Man Maverick Hunter X, Tales of Eternia, Valkyrie Profile, Metal Gear Acid, Metal Gear Acid 2, Loco Roco, Tekken: Dark Resurrection, Guilty Gear XX #Reload, Pursuit Force, Darkstalkers Chronicles, Gradius Collection, Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max, Field Commander, Kingdom of Paradise, Hot Shots Golf, etc. Anyway, there have been a lot of good games on PSP to me personally, but I play a lot of games.

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Yeah!:o this is probably the only way they can get games to sell:o :o

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seanconnery31 Out of all honesty-not to start arguments or anything-there are only "4" good games for the PSP. 1. Lumines 2. Wipeout Pure 3. Socom 4. Syphon Filter (though the balance online is a bit unfair) (select an action below) ______________ Report Abuse To Moderator Posted Jul 25, 2006 11:45 am CT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Those aren't the good games. Those are the superb ones. And you need to add Tekken DR to that list buddy. And some would argue Burnout Legends does also. And if you count just the GOOD games. Good being 8.0 and up, you will get a much longer list. Now bring me the sales and ports arguments fan boys. That **** is getting old. OMG TEH TEKKEN IT"S A PORT!

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Awesome. I'm still waiting for DS game prices to drop. Nintendo is horrible with that... I still see GBA games over a year old for $29.99!!! Games like Mario 64 shouldn't be over $20 now, seriously. People say PSP games are expensive. Most are 5 dollars more than DS games, and one year later alot cheaper than most DS games. Ah well, I'm gonna go pick up Ridge Racers eventually.

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i love my psp no matter what all the naysayers say. it's a commuters dream.

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It sure took them long enough. I've been waiting for this for a while now. EDIT: They consider Untold Legends a third party title? It's made by SOE.... Sony Online Entertainment. Hmmm..

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Twisted Metal and Wipeout Pure are pretty good.

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ya, JP program has been out for a while. picked up (greatest hits) lumines when i got my white PSP back in December.

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Sony shud drop the PSP price to 150 this christmas and get a lot more of these Budget games....then they wud hav a better holiday than the good last year...i definently think PSP can close the narrow gap made by DS Lite

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All craptastic games! At least in a year field comamnder GTA Liberty city will both be on thier.

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dam, i just bought twisted metat head on, but i matched the price at best buy to another place that was selling the game for 25 bucks, so i only lost like 5 bucks.

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If they keep dropping prices on PSP games, I might have to get one eventually.

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With so few good games on the system as it is, this will probably only help the very few people that are going to buy the system in the future since everyone that already owns it most likely already has them.

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Out of all honesty-not to start arguments or anything-there are only "4" good games for the PSP. 1. Lumines 2. Wipeout Pure 3. Socom 4. Syphon Filter (though the balance online is a bit unfair)

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there are some good games for PSP. I don't have one, but people just seem to dog it a lil too much. I mean the only game I've really played on it was lumines, but the system is still being explored becasue it's just about the first handheld that can really give the home systems a run for their money.....

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good, took a bit long than the JP program though. At least I think so

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WO first post! it's nice the psp has greatest hits for those who have one, even though (in my opinion) there's not many good games (but MGS: PO looks awesome though)

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