WipEout HD delayed due to technical issue

Eurogamer: "WipEout HD has yet to be released because of a 'specific technical problem', but Sony hopes it will be out 'before the end of the year'.

'There is a specific technical problem with WipEout that we have to solve. I can't go into details but it is a really, really tricky technical problem that no region has been able to solve at the moment,' Sony Europe boss David Reeves told us when we hassled him about the game's progress this week at LA."

[Petitionstation 3]

Being 'crap' is not a technical issue.

[Playstation Man]

To dedicate an entire alternate account to mock the petition for FFXIII to stay PS3 exclusive is really sad. I'm going to throw a guess out there that you're mart/crab/what ever the hell else you are.

It's not crap, Wipeouts are always good games. If it's a technical issue, it probably has more to do with the online experience/4-player split-screen. Not a lot of games have sported that on EITHER next-gen graphics behemoth and it's still yet to be seen how well Motorstorm does with it, not to mention Wipeout.

[thor]

Woah it's going to have 4-player split-screen? Link please, that's huge news.

[Drekken]

Cant be worse than Fatal Inertia!

[slave2Dcontroller]

Lightning your really in bad shape over FFXIII. I feel your pain but it will be ok. PM me if you need to talk j/k.

On Topic- They better find away to fix it! ... WO is a MAJOR factor in my PS3 purchase. I thought the delay was to give that crapware title called Fatal Inertia some breathing room. Guess Not.

Despite Sony losing FF13 things are still lookin ur for them as sales cantinue to rapidly decline but they better pull their poo together or else they are gonna fall right back into that hole they climbed out of.

[Playstation Man]

My bad entirely Thor, thanks for pointing that out. I was mislead on the Sony message boards earlier in the year I guess.

That said, maybe they're adding it or it's just the online issue. The trailer showed footage functioning very well, we'll just have to see.

[tplarkin7]

The reason PS3 owners lack good exclusive games is due to the PSP. Sony spread their talent way too thin.

[The Wood]

says the guy that saw, wait, how many 360 'exclusives' have you seen at e3. How many exclusives have the ms lovers gamespot even covered this week again????

give up man. Tekken DR is a psp port and is still the best fighting game out there

[MazzingerZ]

@The Wood

Of course the X360 has games, they showed the GH and RB games, Resident Evil 5 and Fallout 3...awesome...and the lady dancing in "You're in the movies"...again, awesome

[kazuma]

wipeout crap? u don't deserve the air that ur breathing

[aggh im on fire]

What a surprise... used to it now though. But with resistance and LPB i had forgotten all about this.

[UnblessedSoul]

End of the year? Ouch, it was supposed to be out in May wasn't it?

[ToastyMcNibbles]

well that sucks...i was really looking forward to this but no matter got plenty of greatness to play for the rest of the year

[smokeymicpot]

At least they are telling us why they are delaying it

[Fart In Your Mouth]

another PS3 delay. At least at this point you are used to it. This is what ps3 developers are really working on: www.lemonparty.org

D E L A Y B 3 Y O N D

[LevDog]

YA just like Alan Wait and Too Wait Human...

Fart dont be dumb.. All consoles have delays.. WaitBox360 has them as well..

[juuken]

Fart, get real. What happened to Alan Wake? What happened to the news surrounding Halo 4? What happened to Left 4 Dead?

Delays happen to everyone.

[Sez]

i almost too easy. the delaystation strike again..lol

[Mr PS3]

To keep us going
No need to worry about that
Now be gone
Thy Silly Little Bot

[eagle21]

LIVE has the crappiest exclusive download games on the planet.

[LevDog]

Alan WAIT AND WAIT HUMAN.. Only on the WAITBOX 360

[juuken]

ALL ABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOARD THE FAIL TRAIN!

[Omega4]

Seriously Sony fix up, fair enough 3rd parties struggle with the PS3 but 1st party seriously that is just a joke and pathetic.

Why announce games when you cant even deliver them!

I will say it again FIX UP sony NOW!

[Polluted]

Right. They should hire more guys like you.

[PoSTedUP]

id rather play the fat princess honestly. or even rag doll kung foo. obviously socom and siren blood curse would kill this game. even ratchet: quest for booty. pixel junk eden looks to be an awesome strategy.

[Overr8ed]

PSN is bring new IP's for small games this is perfect. Wipeout HD is a perfect remake. Now i just need to find a PSN card... or a pre-paid card.

[Gitaroo]

hope they will add trophies support by the time it comes out.

[chanto23]

already confirmed somewhere...

[djtek184]

I'd rather play Pong than this crappy a$$ game.

[digger18]

I didn't think the Xbox 360 had the power to play Pong????

[djtek184]

The [email protected] barely has enough power to handle Pong it will rrod before the intro starts.

[Fart In Your Mouth]

beer pong

[SmokingMonkey]

doesn't bother me, i have a back log of old games to finish so....be patient.

Sony's not the only ones who delay things by the way (Zelda games, Splinter Cell?) their games are better so the delays SEEM bigger IMO ;)

[Fishy Fingers]

Weird. Fair play for holding your hand up and admitting.

[kspraydad]

WTF could that refer too?

Strange quote.

[Armyless]

I wish they'd elaborate. I love this kind of technical problem solving.

[gambare]

It's related with the online game, the game presented a technical issue about the multiplayer latency, I hope I can find the article later, this was exposed in notes to the retailers. The game is planned to support up to 16 players online, but the speed of the game and the latency with a peer-to-peer connection made the game unplayable, but Sony have the idea to implement some optimized codes in the game or bring specific servers to play the game without lag.

"No region" is related to the servers region, no region is free of this problem yet. The other problem is the custom soundtrack feature, they are having some licensing problem due the free use of the MP3 use ingame.

[athlon770]

This has always been a fast paced game so what you said is easy to see. I still have my card ready once this game hits. I remember last year they were thinking of taking out the multiplayer all together because of issues then they decided to add it back in.

Hope they get it worked out...

[Polluted]

That's really weird. It's a bummer that the game has been delayed, but I wonder what the problem could be? No "region" he says...

If he hadn't said it was a technical issue I would have guessed he was referring to a licensing problem with the sountrack.

[Mr Blings]

had fingers crossed that I would find this on psn this week.

[hay]

HDD's are full 'cause of porn downloading? Syntax error?
/jk

[kewlkat007]

what else is new....

It does take like 3+ years to develop a great game for PS3.

Technical issue for a PSN game still after like a year delay.

[gambare]

but you don't have a PS3, so you can't complain about that delay.

[Armyless]

Have you ever played a Wipeout?

[orakga]

I am now officially the loser.

I bought my 1080p TV in May because there were rumors about WOHD coming out in mid-May. Then it became "Summer". And now it's "hopefully before END OF THE YEAR"???

This game was supposed to be out in 2007!!

You guys suck, Sony. Seriously. Those "business-minded people" at Sony are really bringing the company down.

[chasuk08]

Ok you solve it then! Do you even have the slightest idea how hard it is to fix technical issues within thousands of lines of programming code ??

I doubt it

[thor]

From the sounds of it it's something like the game crashes at random intervals for no reason, or a memory leak that they can't plug. Sounds pretty serious but I doubt the game will be canned as all the assets/AI/modes are there.

[GiantEnemyCrab]

Technical problem = PS3

@5.1: Ohhh, big man! You are such a keyboard tough guy. At least I have a mom you butt baby and not born from a homos anus.

[SonySoldierEternaL]

your mom's pu$$y = technical problem

[juuken]

THE FAIL TRAIN NEEDS MORE PEOPLE!

Dead Metal: <<WHY YES, YOU WILL HAVE DONUTS. HECK, WE HAVE THE WHOLE SNACK BAR ON THE FAIL TRAIN. AND YES, THERE WILL BE BOTS TO DESTROY. :]>>

[TheDeadMetalhead]

<<WILL THERE BE DONUTS? OR XBOTS I CAN DESTROY?>>

EDIT: <<YAY.>>

[4cough]

I know what the technical problem is..............Its the game not running at 120fps.... oh sorry I mean 60pfs @ 1080.

[LevDog]

Your avatar (you in a halo costume) = Loser

EDIT: Wow dry humping huh? Disabled ones? Pretty lame

[MOTO-X]

LoL he prolly wheres it to the Bars.. I hear Halo costumes are all the rage at the bars

[4cough]

I wear my halo costume whilst dry humping all your female family members, even the disabled ones............oh yeah.

[juuken]

IT SEEMS LIKE YOU CAN BE OUR NEXT COSTUMER ON THE FAIL TRAIN!

ALL ABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOARD!

[aaquib5]

This was supposed to release in October of 07(see Sony's E3 07 keynote).

[orakga]

Chasuk, I do happen to have the "slightest idea" of what it takes. And no, I won't pretend as if I know what the problem is, and that I know how to fix it.

But the accusation stands: Sony REPEATEDLY made promises that they were unable to keep. If this was an isolated issue, I wouldn't be whining like this. But after all the broken promises of this year (AND last year) I am having a really hard time believing in Sony's ability to delivery on its promises.

That is valid a valid accusation, and I don't need to know what their problem is in order to complain.

[gaffyh]

i reckon they're adding trophy support, so they had to add more code, and ended up messing something up in the process

[Baboon]

it's the framerate at 1080p

[A-ROD]

Cool picture.

You know what they could do? They could release a forty dollar demo and call it WipEout Prologue HD lolollollolololololol

[Kassanova07]

What? They can't figure out how to add trophies? Bollocks!