Discovered within the last two days, several Wipeout HD players from the Wipeout Zone forums report seeing the standard Wipeout HD loading screens randomly being replaced with State Farm video ads, complete with audio.
It appears that the ads are only meant to be for American audiences as no European has confirmed seeing them to this point.
The developers are well known for coming to Wipeout Zone and letting members know of information in advance. They haven't responded to the thread yet, nor did they tell anyone that these ads would be appearing in the game whatsoever.
Will we ever see more of Sony’s futuristic racing franchise?
DSOGaming writes: "It appears that the best Playstation 3 emulator that is currently under development, RPCS3, received a new update recently. kd-11 has implemented new Surface Cache fixes to RPCS3 that reportedly improve the appearance of car reflections in Gran Turismo 6, and fix various graphics glitches in other games."
If someone out there in internet land could make a decent PS3 emulator imagine what Sony could actually do if they put the time and effort in to make this happen for their next console?
It's definitely not impossible as we can see here. It should definitely be done since BC seems to be very important to Sony this next gen. Imagine PS+ free game offerings from Sony that could include the whole catalog from the PS console family..fantastic.
Racing games should be some of the easiest to emulate and they're still not hitting 60fps with it, to say nothing of image flickering and occasional sound issues.
Still gonna be a bit yet before they have it fully up and running, it seems, and even then it may only work for part of the library. :/
Is it possible to have PS3 emulation on PS5?yes depending on what kind of power it really has.
An i7 9700k is no slouch and the PS4 already has a God of War 3 running much better with less
power required because they converted CBE to X86 which is not something you want to be doing in the long run.
What power would be required to play these games emulated at said PS4 version?.
It's not an easy situation Sony themselves created and ultimately I believe they are happy this way because they
want you to use PSNow,that service is why you will not even get it. (let's not forget that it was a huge investment)
Alongside the death of the Killzone 2 and Killzone 3 servers, Sony will be shutting down the online services of three WipEout Games in 2018 for PS3 and Vita.
How's this even possible? I thought Sony didn't have dedicated servers according to a certain crowd?
Damn even the Vita gets hit?
Reminds me of the 6th console gen when tons of servers for awesome games got shut down anywhere from 2 to 4 years after they initially launched.
Better enjoy whatever games' online components you can while you can before they get wiped out of existence.
wish they'd rerelease White Knight Chronicles 2 on PS4 so I can play online again. That game was amazing
Wait! Sony exclusive games had dedicated servers?
Killzone 2 and 3 and now WipEout!
We know Resistance 1-3 had dedicated servers as well as GT 5-6 and MAG and Uncharted 2 and 3 and ao on and so forth.
As far as I know non-dedicated servers cannot be shutdown on Sony platforms until Sony stops hosting the game services on the platform. So when Sony stops supporting matchmaking via PSN on PS3 then those games without dedicated servers will be shut down... I did my research UKRsoldja
never seen them myself, as long as they don't extend the loading times to fit in the ads i dont really mind
Disappointing if true. Very disappointing. Glad it's not on my version, but that kind of thing is bull. If you're going to have blatant ads like that, the game should be at a reduced price.
That's pretty lame, I mean come on now it's a freaking arcade game.
This is about as lame as buying the seasons of South Park and having to sit through 5 minutes of Comedy Central ads EVERY TIME you play the first disk... man that really grinds my gears!
Cmon now, you act like the ads ruined the game. I didnt get Fury yet but I do have Wipeout HD and it a great game. Stop acting as if the ads ruin the game play or something. The ad is on the damn loading screen for crying out loud. Must people complain about every little thing? Will you tell me not to buy a great game because there are ads during the loading screen? Please stop.
I work at SF so this is kind of cool!