December 7, 2004

IGN plays with WiFi on the PSP

WiFi PSP

Multiplayer impressions from Ridge Racers and Minna no Golf


December 06, 2004 - We all know the PSP is going to be hot for single player games (our single player test of Ridge Racers yesterday confirmed that much), but how will the system hold up when playing against others? Today, we got in some more play time with the final PSP hardware and put Ridge Racers and Minna no Golf Portable to the WiFi test.

Here's how we set our games up. We had two people make use of adjacent PSP units running the same game. We, of course, made sure to have the WiFi switch on. The game actually warns you if the WiFi switch is off when you try to enter a multiplayer mode, although turning it on is as simple as flipping the switch (without having to restart or anything).

Our first WiFi experience was with Minna no Golf Portable. The game has a "Minna De Golf" (Golf with everyone) mode that allows for eight players to play together simultaneously. Go into this mode and you're given two options: one option to create an multiplayer game session and one to select an existing game session and join in.

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