Finally, PS2 and PSP owners can go head-to-head

by Andrew Yoon { Jan 24th 2008 at 11:30AM }

Don't you wish you were able to give a PS2 owner a virtual smackdown? Dreams of cross-platform multiplayer have rarely come to fruition, but Konami's giving it a shot with their upcoming Yu-Gi-Oh! game. The Beginning of Destiny, which is available in stores now, has an intriguing feature we haven't seen before in a PS2 game: it has the ability to actually connect with and battle against a PSP game.

Yu-Gi-Oh! GX The Beginning of Destiny includes more than 2,400 cards allowing for new decks and dueling strategies. Players can also connect online to duelists playing Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Tag Force 2 on the PSP to battle more characters and collect more cards. It reminds us a little of Pokemon.

Hopefully, this won't be the only time we hear of such a feature. Wouldn't it be great if PSP owners could go head to head against other PS2 and PS3 owners? Imagine playing MLB, and having a pitch thrown on a PS3, while a batter on a PSP somewhere else in the world is able to take a swing. The online world of PSP would open up so much if Sony wanted it to ...

[Via press release]

Tags: ps2, yu-gi-oh, yu-gi-oh-gx

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Iron Lombax @ Jan 24th 2008 12:12PM

good idea shame about the game, it'd be good if you could connect psp's gameshare to share with the ps3

Hashbrown_Hunter @ Jan 24th 2008 8:27PM

Great idea, horrible game.

John the Snake Man @ Jan 24th 2008 12:08PM

sigh...to bad I don't like Yu-Gi-Oh!!!!!

Autobon @ Jan 24th 2008 12:19PM

No, instead of adding more cool features like this to other games, Sony wants to waste its time making "Home."

Just for the record, i think Sony completely missed the point of what makes xbox live so good. Oh well, still love my sony stuff.

Extinction @ Jan 24th 2008 1:24PM

Don't be an idiot.
1) The team working on Home, is a different team than the ones making games or other features for PSP/PS3

2) Live is inferior to PSN. Live uses peer to peer, which makes it laggier, limited to lower players in-game, lowers audio quality for voice chat, makes games vulnerable to lag attacks and gives the host an advantage

PSN offers every feature Live does except for in-game messaging which is coming (as it's being worked on by a seperate team) and uses dedicated servers. Which means games have far superior in-game performance.

And in-game performance in an online game is more important than being able to message other people. We play games to play games, after all.

Autobon @ Jan 24th 2008 1:46PM

Extinction, Live is much better than the PSN network. Granted the PSN network has vastly improved from PS2, it is still not in any way superior to xbox live.

I would love actual proof to everything your saying. You know, like charts showing the live lag vs. PSN lag. So much of what your saying is complete crap. I have both consoles and i prefer Live over PSN any day. Granted PSN has games like Resistance that have very addicting online, but thats not because its supported better than live.