Integrating GPS with gaming, how cool! Just launched this week, the GPS Receiver for Sony PSP is supposedly only available in Japan. But Play-Asia.com has it for sale now, although I do not know if it will work with the PSPs in other parts of the world.
The GPS receiver currently works with the following titles: Minna no Golf-jou, Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, Planetarium Creator Ohira Takayuki Kanshuu: Home Start Portable, and Navigation Soft.
Gamespot has details on how the GPS receiver will work in some of the titles:
Minna no Golf-jou (SCEI, 2007) Minna no Golf-jou is a spin-off of SCEI’s popular Hot Shots Golf series, and it functions as a map utility for real golf courses. The software includes data of all golf courses in domestic Japan and lets the golfer check out everything from his distance to obstacles, as wells as the greens. The software can also be used as a management tool for keeping track of score data.
Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops (Konami Digital Entertainment, December 2006) Metal Gear Solid’s new PSP action adventure game will make use of the GPS receiver to search for and collect new characters that can be recruited as soldiers.
Planetarium Creator Ohira Takayuki Kanshuu: Home Star Portable (Sega, October 2006) Sega’s constellation navigator is coming out two months before Sony’s GPS receiver, but it’s going to have support for the peripheral. Using the GPS receiver, players can acquire their current location and display the exact stars that they should be seeing up in the sky.
Navigation Soft (Edia, December 2006) This standard car-navigation software features all the roadmaps in Japan. Aside from searching for car and walking routes, the software can also be used as a directory to search for nearby shops and other facilities. The maps and database can be updated using the PSP’s network capabilities.
Damage: US$59.90.
Original post by Leon Huang
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