PS3 Final Fight: Double Impact requires PSN connection

[jetlee]

Final Fight: Double Impact may be a collection of retro games, but some owners of the PS3 version have discovered that it is, at heart, a little too modern. The game will not run unless the user is signed into an online PSN account. If you try to load up Double Impact while not signed in, you'll just get a curt "Sign into PlayStation Network. (80029516)" message on the screen. (The Xbox 360 version launches without issue, even when not signed into Xbox Live.)

While it may not be a big deal to most of us who are signed into PSN whenever we use our PS3s, it does make us wonder why Capcom or Sony don't allow people to play the game, even in single-player or local multiplayer, without an internet connection. We've contacted both parties about the issue. Anyone else appreciating the irony of having to be connected to the internet to play games made before most of us knew what an internet was?

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Its a scheme to get as much users on psn so sony can fook there ps3 up so what will you do ?

[garyopa]

This is just a pre-view of the future.

Sony is already pushing that with some PSP games you must be sign-in to play.

Ubisoft on the PC HAS ALREADY done that with all their games, you must be CONNECTED TO THE 'NET 100% of the time, in fact your PLAYER SAVE FILES don't even get stored on your PC, they are kept by Ubisoft, you lose Internet you lose your checkpoint, no no playing until your Internet is restored.

I see Sony doing this on the PS3 very soon for all Games, if you are NOT CONNECTED, you CAN'T PLAY!

[noetikos]

I see Sony doing this on the PS3 very soon for all Games, if you are NOT CONNECTED, you CAN'T PLAY!

geez things are starting to get worse.

on the PSP side though, i'm not too worried because there are lots of smart homebrewers that will release workarounds for this problem. plus the GO is already dead. sony is headed the same way that sega went and that is "down hill."