Soulcalibur and Tekken heading to PSP

By Tom Bramwell Published 29 April, 2009

Summer and autumn respectively.

Soulcalibur and Tekken are both heading to PSP this year, Namco Bandai announced in the US overnight.

Tekken 6, due out this autumn, promises many of the features of its PS3/Xbox 360 counterpart, as well as ad hoc wireless multiplayer, deep character customisation and the ability to upload and download ghost data using PSN.

Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny also leans on a big-console version - namely last year's Soulcalibur IV - and will include more than 20 combatants when it squares up for release this summer.

Although SBD loses the Star Wars characters introduced as specials in SCIV, it will have a new character, Dampierre, and in addition to the usual fighting game modes there's a single-player mission mode designed to school you in the game's subtleties.

Along with Capcom's Fate/unlimited codes and the belated release of Dissidia: Final Fantasy, it's shaping up to be an interesting year for Japanese PSP beat-'em-ups.

Although it remains to be seen if Namco will follow Capcom's example and use digital distribution exclusively, we wouldn't be surprised.

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Comments (12) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Fernando #1 3 years ago

    year of the fighters continues

  • bad09 #2 3 years ago

    "year of the fighters continues "

    Amen! Now someone kickstart the 3D space shooters!

    SC could be interesting. As for Tekken, I probably pick up 360 and PSP, I was really impressed with DR on PSP really surprised me and shows the PSP is a pretty powerful animal graphically.
    Edited by 1 at 29/04/09 @ 09:03

  • Goffee #3 3 years ago

    yummm, roundhouse

  • DaDon123456 #4 3 years ago

    I really wish its going to be a different tekken from the console counterparts.... IMO this is one the main reason PSP is failing. Given the choice, would you rather play Tekken 6 with nex gen graphics, quicker loading times, or the opposite on PSP?
    If they had made the new tekken on PSP a completely different game, im sure a lot more people would love to buy it.

  • Meho #5 3 years ago

    True. I wish they showed some more creativity instead of just squeezing the big console versions down to fit on the PSP... There is a bunch of PSP exclusives out there or coming out this year too, but many of them are probably to forever stay Japanese exclusives... Thank heavens for Dissidia at least even though we have to wait for the western version for ages...

  • toy_brain #6 3 years ago

    "Given the choice, would you rather play Tekken 6 with nex gen graphics, quicker loading times, or the opposite on PSP?"

    Tekken 5: DR's loading times were pretty damn tight, and I see no reason why Namco would take a step back (though you never know I guess).
    What I learned from playing Tekken 5 on PSP was that a decent fighting game, with the right types of gameplay modes, is utterly perfect for on-the-go play. The PSP's standby mode means you can fire it up in an instant, and the nature of the game means you can spend as little as a minute, or as much as several hours playing it.
    As long as nobody was missing from the character roster, I could easily see myself getting the PSP version of Tekken 6 over the PS3 or 360 versions.

  • raion #7 3 years ago

    this is the best PSP annouce of all 2009. oh gaaawd.

    to dadon and meho: as long as the gameplay is exacly the same, I couldn't care less about graphics.
    loading times could be annoying but... come on! tekken 6 whenever you feel like, and not confined to the livingroom?

    the psp really spoiled me with console quality gaming anywhere (I don't miss the second analog, since I believe shooters are not meant for consoles anyway :p), and I for one wish there were more ps2 ports and people wouldn't go around asking for "bite sized gaming". I hate that expression.

    and that's what flash games and tetris are for!

    BRING IT!!

  • dominalien #8 3 years ago

    And then all the games they have been announcing recently will be released at the same time and they'll wonder why they aren't selling. ;-)

    Still, I wish them best of luck. The more competition in the market there is, the better for us all.

  • smoothn00dle #9 3 years ago

    After three years, PSP software start to take off like PS1.

  • Ryze #10 3 years ago

    ^ Try 5 years.


    EXCELLENT stuff, by the way. I'll have a PSP Soul Calibur, thanks!


    Bad09 +1
    Edited by 1 at 29/04/09 @ 12:24

  • Widge #11 3 years ago

    "Given the choice, would you rather play Tekken 6 with nex gen graphics, quicker loading times, or the opposite on PSP?"

    Give me a mobile PS3 and I'll choose the main console version for my bus journeys.

  • Ryze #12 3 years ago

    @raion

    I'm personally not arsed about 1st person shooters. However - in 3rd person games, I'd like to move the camera to look around without having to STAND STILL AND HOLD A BUTTON.

    This ruins games with dumb cameras.