GC: Sony conference Finished
Earlier today, Sony delivered its Games Convention 2007 press conference, announcing a new PlayStation 3 PVR gadget for recording and watching TV, a corresponding PSP update for watching TV on the go and piping it from your PS3, and a range of PSP initiatives, as well as some other stuff. Hit the frontpage for full news coverage, or read on for our blow by blow run-through of the conference as it happened. Sorry for any offence caused, etc.
Our live coverage has now ended. Here's what you missed: Updating...
Tom and Pat are standing in a very big queue outside the conference. Reports suggest it is hot and stuffy and Pat is getting fed up.
They're in. Any minute now we'll be getting messages from the other side.
Right, we're in. Sorry for late start [and he was late - Ed]. Trailer reel is up - PS3 games, shockingly. Uncharted, DMC4, Ratchet - a montage of fun exploding onto a 60-foot screen in front of people who had to really sweat for their seats.
David Reeves is taking the stage.
He's here with the German Sony director and some "key announcements" for PlayStation and the European market. Now he's translating himself into German. Meanwhile, why not read all those announcements in the embargoed news we just posted.
"Games Convention is even more important and influential than normal this year." On with the news. "Games Convention is primarily about new games" and he's going to show us some, he says.
But first, he's going to talk about growth. "This is not a new topic," he concedes, but he's not apologising for mentioning it again.
He's showing a graph of units sold across PAL regions and he says that competition between games and hardware contributes to a "healthy" and "vibrant" industry. "All the growth trend lines are upward."
TV based consoles up by 66 per cent, handhelds by 316 per cent. Software sales for TV based consoles up by 200 per cent, and handheld by 900 per cent. We're as riveted as you are.
He's projecting 140m PlayStation consoles in PAL territories by 2010.
PS3 actually enjoyed a faster curve than PS2 did in the first three months, he says. He calls it "an impressive pattern of growth".
"Our key strategic objective ... is to grow not just our share of the market, but to help grow the overall size of the market for interactive entertainment in Europe" and elsewhere.
Time for some key sales performance detail for each of their formats. He says he's not going to take long on this. Good - my knees already hurt!
PS3 had a "stunning" launch in Europe, he says. 13 million units of software sold to consumers throughout Europe. Resistance and MotorStorm top selling titles - both million-sellers worldwide, and nearly 500k each in Europe.
Over 65 titles will be available for PS3 in Europe by Christmas, he says.
He refers to the Starter Pack, which he says added EUR 170 of added value. He says consumers and retail have reacted well, and sales have risen over 240 per cent in Germany in the first week of sale. In the three weeks following its introduction, it prompted 61 per cent growth overall.
On to PS2. "Sales of hardware and software continue to exceed all our expectations." Biggest installed base globally in the history of the industry. Over 500 million pieces of software produced. "And it's still outselling our dear colleagues Xbox 360 weekly by a ratio of three to one."
Almost 5 million PS2s sold in Germany. He points to sales in emerging markets as a key driver. Russia in particular is doing well with over a 40 per cent share of recent growth.
Social gaming is somthing he's quite chuffed about. "This year SingStar titles have been top of the charts in six territories."
More females are playing games now than in 2004! Woo! Ladies - it's tom [at] eurogamer [dot] net.
He's pointed to Phil Harrison and thanked him for bringing social gaming to Europe. A spontaneous smatter of applause from the audience.
Promises "more fun" with SingStar "German style" later.
PSP has installed base of 8.6 million units in PAL territories, he says. And over 320 games available.
Says the price drop prompted a 40 per cent uplift in sales for PAL markets over the following weeks.
PlayStation Network time!
He's basically saying what it is. If you don't know what it is yet, use Google.
645,000 PS3 accounts have signed up for the Network. "That's almost half our installed base for PS3 in Europe." 186 pieces of content available, download tie ratio of 12:1.
Tekken 5's sold 103k, Flow 47k, Supr Rub a Dub 35k and Calling all Cars 31k. And someone near me is smoking, which is really helping.
If you look in value terms, they've exceeded EUR 4 million in wallet top-ups since launch. "Let's move on" to something that isn't stats, he says.
PS3 first. "A stunning games machine." Got one yet?
He wants to talk about it as an entertainment hub first.
Early in the new year we're getting PlayTV. Turns your PS3 into a personal video recorder (PVR).
"PlayTV will turn your PS3 into the centre of your entertainment experience." Snoooooore.
Sorry Dave. It's the heat, I swear. It's built around a small peripheral containing two small free-to-air TV tuners. He's holding it up. It looks like a sunglasses case.
It allows you to record a TV programme while watching another. Can receive SD and HD signals. Will receive Freeview, too.
"Some of the more observant of you will have picked up that Freeview is also launching in New Zealand early next year." I did, Dave! I did!
You can export recorded videos to your PSP.
"What better excuse would there be to buy both a PS3 and a PSP?"
He's introducing Mark Bunting from Worldwide Studios Cambridge. He's demoing it.
He's showing a football match happening live, through PS3. It's all future-proofed to support HDTV, too. The Episode Guide (EPG) comes up in a fairly swanky PS3-style interface.
You can launch recorded videos directly from the library.
There's a thumbnail viewer of programmes which takes up the whole screen. If you select a snapshot it will play a 15-second clip so you can make sure it was the one you thought it was.
Connectivity between PSP and PS3 means you can use PlayTV's advantages on the go. The Remote Play feature helps PSP become "your very own live TV viewer".
Can play live TV or every programme you've recorded on the way back home. The PlayTV library is pulled up on Mark's PSP, and he's now watching it on his PSP. Or would be, if the demo was working. Ah, there it is.
Took just a few seconds to get going. He can switch back to the EPG on PSP and start watching his live channel immediately.
Someone starts clapping and the rest of the audience picks it up. To launch in UK and a few others early next year, with the rest of the PAL territories to follow.
"We should not forget the games," Reevesy points out.
Heavenly Sword is a bit good, he reckons. Look out for it on 14th September in UK, 19th in Europe. Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune are the sorts of things he's into, by the sound of it.
Little bit of downtime there. Not to worry - he's just showing a trailer reel. Uncharted's up.
It looks mostly as good as that old target footage. WipEout HD looks pretty sexy for a PSN game.
And now a bit of SingStar. Video of girls singing. LIFESTYLE.
Heavenly Sword. Bits from the demo and elsewhere. Snowy bits, grassy bits, Nariko's bits.
WarHawk is shown. He's zooming around, running around, driving around, sniping around, and morphing into Lair via a splash screen.
Lair's out fairly soon if I recall correctly. Stirring music plays as dragons swoop. Oh god they've moving on. Folklore. Green, red, blue, a man is in my way.
Eye of Judgement. Guitars and drums, pirate ships and men on horses. STOP GOING SO FAST SONY.
GT5 Prologue. It looks like the other GT HD Prologue wotsit. "All coming Christmas 2007 on PlayStation 3."
"Good - I hope you enjoyed it," says Dave.
He's introducing MGS4. Now he's speaking Japanese. I don't know why. Maybe if he spent a bit more time selling PS3s than learning languages people would stop slagging him off.
Buzz coming to PS3 with Buzz! Quiz TV. It's another of those embargoed news stories on the main page, look!
He's introducing, well, Buzz. The host from the game. He's going to tell us about the game. In his wacky voice. "Boy! My time has come!"
Questions about soap operas in Pass The Bomb. Someone explodes. It looks like PS2 Buzz but with more graphicsability.
"For the first time in Buzz, me, you, anyone can choose the topics you want."
"We've got everything on one disc." Movies, sport, telly, etc.
Buzz wants more, he says. Internet play, for example. "Strangers are just people you haven't humiliated yet."
You can create your own quiz questions, too, with Create A Quiz.
Which is probably why it's called that.
Premium content. Downloadable question packs.
Reevesy reckons it's the perfect game for integrating disc-based content with PSN blah blah bespoke rah rah.
I've got really bad cramp in my legs now. We're on weird little green Sony stools. I don't usually ask for sympathy, readers, but WILL ME WELL.
Many of us will be eagerly awaiting the latest instalment of Gran Turismo, says Reeves. And Kazunori Yamauchi is here at Leipzig for the first time ever. He's in the audience.
GT5 Prologue will allow up to 16 players to race against each other online. It will be 1080p, and have 50 cars and five tracks.
He's going to show us a new video now. I'd try standing up but I think the ligaments have gone bye-bye.
Would you believe that the cars are shiny? I scarcely can. The slightly sinister Gran Turismo elevator music is playing. Mechanics and drivers stand around VERY SHINY cars.
More shiny cars. None of them is actually driving around yet. Ooh! Darker, moodier music! A shiny, shinier car!
Light flicks across its silvery curves. And we're looking at the game! There's grass next to the track! And cars on it! They're moving very quickly! Possibly in some sort of contest to see who can race around the track quickest out of the ones who are on it.
The course is a proper race-track, unlike the one off the first Prologue. There's stadium stands, banners, gravel traps.
Cars.
Quite a few of them.
Due out before the end of the year in PAL territories. Or you could just make a fake Japanese account and get it off there, probably, a friend told me.
Also looking forward to stuff on PSP like Pursuit Force, God of War: Chains of Olympus and WipEout Pulse.
Ooh, Echochrome.
Coming to both PSP and PS3, remember.
Oh, he's not going to demo it - he's going to show a PSP trailer reel.
WipEout Pulse looks PULSATING. Pursuit Force looks FORCEFUL. ATV Pro Something Or Other looks INDISTINCT. Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow looks SHADOWY.
I missed the name of that one. Patasomething [Piyotama, maybe - Ed]. There's a woman's head in my way. I wish she'd die or something.
Echochrome again - pretty much what we've seen before. They're all up for about five seconds. God of War looks like God of War PS2. Kratos is fighting people. Smash, crash.
And that's it for PSP trailers. Clapsing!
Rupert tells me to tell you that our Xbox Live integration is live on Eurogamers. What has this got to do with Sony conference? Nothing.
He's saying PSP Slim and Lite will be coming to Europe in early September, and that we'll get black, silver and white models. He's holding it up.
I've not seen one of these in person before (Ellie covered the E3 conference). Not bad. He's got a yellow one in his hand.
Due to launch on 5th September. Two special limited edition colours available as a bundle: Simpsons-themed yellow one, and a red and black Spider-Man one.
I apologise - red on the front, black on the back. That'll teach me to type things before he's done a pirouette, won't it?
My knees are now basically dead. I will never walk again. I hope you're happy.
He's announced the new "Go!" brand. It's for entertainment and services. The Go! camera is already out, obviously - but he's got three new ones to announce! Woo!
Go! Messenger is the first one. It's being done with BT, so presumably it'll be good until you need to move house.
A firmware update in the New Year will add a program to do video chats and instant messages over Wi-Fi with other users anywhere in the world.
You'll need the camera though, obviously. IT'S NOT MAGIC, BOFFINS.
Let's see how the service will work, Dave. "Let's see how the service will work." I just said that. "January next year."
It will work with lifestyle-style swishing of graphics and shonky music by the sound of it.
I would type things, but they're really not showing much. Just some spinning PSPs and cityscapes.
Nope, still nothing. There's a grey train station on top of a grey planet with blue lines flying over the top of it.
Go! Messenger, then. For talking to people who aren't next to you. With a PSP.
And now he's going to show Go! Explore. But first he's going to say nice things about a pair of BT men. Well done, BT men. You made a grey train station.
Ellie thinks he said "worldwide in PAL territories". I wasn't listening. It didn't seem important.
Go! Explore is a sat-nav wotsit that helps you avoid speed cameras, restaurants and other things, says Dave. I suppose you could use it to find them too. Weirdo.
He's showing us a route from the Houses of Parliament to Trafalgar Square (GET A BUS!).
That was me, not them. They are selecting it by typing in a place name (or post code), and then a street name, and then selecting it from a list of suggested options.
They are then shown a big swanky overhead map, and you can zoom around it in semi-3D too, seeing landmarks stand up against the landscape.
A menu allows you to pick the route and then travel along it as a little blue arrow. Road names and other locational info splash up on the screen, in much the same way lactic acid is splashing out of my knees.
It's due out on February 2008. The actual content is free once you buy it, he says.
It's perfect for "any car driver or any PSP owner" apparently.
Seems like the reason they pre-announced the TV on demand service was Sky's financials had to be stated in July.
But now they're talking about it. He says Sky reckons PSP is the ideal handheld for high definition video wotsits. It won't be available on any other handheld console or mobile device, he says. Gizmondo is in trouble!
Sky content spanning sports, entertainments, sports, probably some sport and other Sky stuff.
"This is the first time Sky will offer video content through a non Sky branded service," says Dave, who's doing well up there. Better than me.
There'll be a choice of options for payment - subscriptions and so on. Pay-per-view options too. Customers will be able to download their programmes via PC to their PSP, or alternatively via Wi-Fi.
We're going to see some of the content the download service might deliver. Film actors and actresses bounce around the screen, including Bruce Willis, a penguin, Robbie Coltrane, a fireman, Jose Mourinho, PEOPLE'S HERO PETER CROUCH, and the England cricket team "in happier times" if you ask me.
Man United are on the PSP screen holding up the Premiership trophy.
It's due to be branded as part of the Go! thing when it launches in early 2008.
That's UK and Ireland, mind. But he says they're "active" in French discussions, and will be turning their attention to Spain and Germany "in the very near future".
Change of subject!
He's going to tell us about a partnership.
FIFA, EA and PS3 get together and hump one another. They're going to be presenting partners for the FIFA Interactive World Cup, which is the thing Microsoft used to do before Sony had a PS3.
Players all around the world will compete using FIFA 08 to play. They're going to help explain it more and all that by introducing FIFA's Chuck Blazer (real name, surely a fake beard).
He says the FIFA Interactive World Cup is an excellent platform for the global something or other.
You wouldn't care if I did type this stuff, to be honest. From October 2007 to May 2008 you get to "show off your gaming skills at more than 20 physical qualifying events" and others on that Internet. The best 32 get face off at the Sony Centre in Berlin in May 2008.
He says it's going to be great. Which is probably his job, in all honesty.
I swear I can smell naughty drugs being smoked. I'm not making this up. DRUGS AT SONY CONFERENCE SHOCK.
You can look on the Internet to find out about the FIFA Interactive World Cup, says Chuck. And you can register on the PlayStation booth. DRUGS THOUGH. SOMEONE CALL A JOURNALIST.
Some fellow whose name I missed is going to demonstrate FIFA 08. He's not one of the ones I met in Vancouver, who were all lovely. He seems alright though.
Apparently they made FIFA 08 for PS3 by making the game work well on Cell.
Hold the frontpage! Just don't for goodness sake go there and read all the news stories that negate what I've spent the last hour doing - that would be very unfair.
They're playing FIFA 08. It's obviously a bit further on from the proof of concept stuff I saw in May. They're talking about the "organic building-block skill moves" and how you use the right stick to build those up.
"Almost a little bit like atomic sequencing", he says. You'll be able to play as yourself in FIFA Interactive World Cup, he says, not just real life players like PEOPLE'S HERO PETER CROUCH.
All 22 players are making 1000 decisions a second, he says. It boggles his mind, says mystery man. Calls it a level of intelligence never seen before in a football game. Stand up Rob Styles.
He's talking about "emergent play" now, and adapting to the CPU and all I can think about is how my knee is never going to heal.
"Thank you very much." No no, thank you. Reevesaaay is back, I think, but can't see due to a poorly placed man in a rubbish shirt.
A German man is here to talk in German about the German market, which seems only fair after all the English.
I'll see if I can pick out any words. I speak a bit of German. Did you know that "halb acht" is actually half past seven?
I've got a chair! I've got a chair! I think the woman next to me is worried about the smell! I would be. I've been sweating a bit.
There's a "brilliant German band" on the screen now according to Friend Of Eurogamer Keza MacDonald, who is providing my in-ear translation by leaning over and saying words into my ear. "They're like the German version of the Rolling Stones."
They're playing SingStar and shouting "scheisse" a lot. SingStar Die Toten Hosen. They're on stage! Woo!
They're about to demonstrate SingStar Deutsch Rock-Pop. Good work Keza. At first they laughed at karaoke, says spiky hair singing man. But then in the middle of the 90s he experienced SingStar and karaoke become something he was into. He's talking about a party he was at.
Keza's excited. She loves these guys. And I can feel my knees again!
"His favourite song is ... actually this probably isn't very interesting."
The question is, should I go to the Call of Duty 4 party after this even though I'm drenched in sweat or should I go back to the hotel and finish the interview I was transcribing and have something to eat and maybe a drink?
They're going to play SingStar AUF DEUTSCH on-stage. I wonder if it was their naughty smoking drugs.
The whole compilation is Die Toten Hosen, which is probably why the game's named after them.
The German Sony guy's playing too. There are four German men singing a heartfelt song on-stage in German. I've got a lighter and I am getting Keza to wave it.
She's doing it! I have control over women!
Team two won. I have no idea who was on it, but good work them. The band are wandering off now.
Davey Reevesy is back and announcing the end of the press conference. He's just wrapping up.
He reckons all this can excite and entertain everyone in the family.
"That's it - thank you for coming."
And thank you for reading, Eurogamers! See you all back here for Tokyo Game Show in a month or so!
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Still, Sony should be grateful EG stooped to offer them any coverage at all, I suppose. Even coverage that belittled the announcements and wasn't worth a write-up.
At least it isn't coverage of yet another impending FPS though!
GT and GTA are hardcore games, Les....they didnt bring a wider audience to PS3, they brought the MAIN audience. How can you not know this?
Do you even play games?..uhh...besides baseball
@Les
Huh??? You don't have a clue as to what you're talking about. The reason PS2 was a success and the Xbox was a failure had nothing to do with casual games or rising development costs.
It was 1 year, 2 months headstart and a bigger customer base that was partially made from the PS1 gamers upgrading. The PS2 didn't make its profits or become a success because of EyeToy, Buzz or Singstar or any other casual games. Get your facts straight. Hardcore gamers are what made PS2 a success in North America & Europe. And I wont waste space listing the top selling games from the 9 consoles I mentioned. Look it up yourself!
"With exploding development costs, 'hardcore' games become even less attractive. If developers weren't hardcore gamers themselves, I doubt we would see many of them. For every Halo or GTA, there are countless commercial failures."
@Les
As you told me.....Proof please
Thats like saying big budget movies are less attractive because of super high costs. Then why do they keep making them? Because they make a shitload of money...duh
Please point it out then, because you don't. Yes, casual users buy less games. But the games they require cost much less to create. Look at last gen. The typical Xbox owner will have bought much more games than the typical PS2 owner. PS2 was a success financially, Xbox a failure.
With exploding development costs, 'hardcore' games become even less attractive. If developers weren't hardcore gamers themselves, I doubt we would see many of them. For every Halo or GTA, there are countless commercial failures.
"The top 10 selling games of all time for the SNES, PS1, N64, Gamecube, PS2, Dreamcast, Xbox, PS3 and 360 are all hardcore/traditional type games."
Proof please. But even if it were the case, those top 10 games will very likely form but a small part of the total software revenue generated for the platform (except for the 360 as it's aimed squarely at the hardcore). Definitely not enough to make them profitable.
@Charroux & Les
There's one problem with yours & Les' argument.
Casual gamers are just that....casual....users. I don't think it will as profitable in the long run as you think except maybe in Japan with the DS & Wii. How many games will a casual user buy during a year compared to the normal gamer? And how long will the casual gamer stay interested in consoles....something they had disdain for just a few years ago. I wouldn't bet my farm on such a fleeting customer. Why casual games are so big on PC is because they're cheap. Not so cheap paying for WiiFit, Buzz or Scene It! What the companies are making more money off of is the cheaply made mundane movie tie in games and whose to blame for that?
The top 10 selling games of all time for the SNES, PS1, N64, Gamecube, PS2, Dreamcast, Xbox, PS3 and 360 are all hardcore/traditional type games.
"I missed the name of that one. Patasomething [Piyotama, maybe - Ed]. There's a woman's head in my way. I wish she'd die or something."
I was eating an apple when I read that and almost choked on it. Very funny.
As for what Sony announced it was very dissappointing. Sky on my PSP? Oh really? That's very energy efficient isn't it? Yes lets try and find a WiFi hotspot and watch Sky TV over my PSP whilst my PS3 is still on at my home. Yeah that'll reduce size of my carbon footprint. Cheers Sony!
As for recording TV shows on my PS3 why would I do that? I have Sky HD as it is which has a 160 Gb HD in it anyway. The last thing I want to do is clog up my PS3 HD with TV shows that I've already recorded on my Sky HD box.
I personally think this whole digital convergence thing has gone too far. The PS3 is a games console that happens to play Blu Ray disks. Just like the PS2 was a games console that also plays DVDs and the PSOne was a games console that also played music CDs. All this streaming content from your PC to the PS3 then onto your PSP is just freaking pointless and dumb.
Finally on the casual stuff it's a big fat 'meh' from me. I have no interest in it what so ever other than if it provides revenue into the industry then all well and good. Without games like Buzz, Singstar et al then I suspect we'd never see the likes of Bioshock appearing as developers would not have the funds to make them. So yes we Eurogamer readers hate the 'casual' market but its a massive cash cow that Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are diving into for all their worth. Especially Nintendo who know a good thing when they see it. Sadly they just end up alienating the people that put them therein the first place. *sigh*
Spot on. It seems pretty obvious that the casual gamer market is much, much larger than the hardcore. Casual gamers are how most games companies make money (see Nintendo, EA, etc).
Did I say that?!
If you look at the video game business it's quite evident that there's not much money to be made. Nintendo is the only company that's left from the original console manufacturers. Sega, Atari, NEC, Commodore, etc. dropped out of the video game hardware business. Sony made good money with PS1 and PS2 because of the casual gamers, not the hardcore. MS never made money with Xbox and it's unlikely the 360 will be a positive NPV project.
It's for a reason that MS and Sony don't present their consoles as just games machines. Their platforms aren't attractive to a large enough demographic if they'd do that. They need the extra revenue from IPTV, digital content downloads, etc. to ever turn a profit.
It's funny to see people preaching a 'games-only' strategy for consoles and at the same time denouncing the Wii... Hardcore gamers are a peculiar species: not willing to spend money but they still expect the world... Idiots.
@muftak
IMO the reason the Wii sells like it does has a lot to do with its lower price point compared to the competitors.
The important thing to realize is that a vast majority of last gen console owners are still waiting to get a better idea of the market before making their next gen purchase and quite a few bought the Wii to keep them occupied till they make the lunge.
I really do believe that this time around there are going to be a lot of people with a Wii + PS3/XBOX360 and since Sony and Microsoft are going directly head to head, you have to atleast be open to the idea that games are going to be the main determining factor of the eventual outcome.
This is critical time for both Microsoft and Sony and after their rather nice showing at E3 this year, I personally think that SCEE head David Reeves should probably have just kept quiet instead of dishing out 'uncalled for' disappointment.
I didn't buy the PS3 to record TV, etc. I wanted to know about how 8 days and the getaway are coming along and an official rumble/touchsense confirmation.
''NOT just a games machine it is multimedia hub that what alot of you forget its not just all about games''
I wish it was.
Hoping for more and ending up with disappointment were clearly shown, that cannot be whitewashed out. Though TGS is acknowledged (and hoped) for more games to slake the raging thirsts for more games.
Tv thing I think is useful gimmick, more than Movies Marketplace in my opinion and better suited to Europeans.
Still got BioShock to look forward to on my X360 and roll on TGS!
HYUK.
+1
Wake me up when september ends.
@Les
oh yea...cause before the Wii, Eye Toy, Buzz and Scene It!, the videogame business was a bust, right? A non profit business for 20 years...uhh huh. No money was made by the companies until the Wii showed up.
You're always lecturing others when you should shut the fuck up yourself, Les!
Get in the back of the van!!
It won't die as long as MS's shareholders allow it to sink money into the bottomless pit...
You 'hardcore' gamers should shut the fuck up: If you don't want to spend enough money to make your hobby a profitable business please don't go crying when companies look elsewhere to turn a profit.
Gamers want games not pointless diversions.
Have games, will sell.
No because then someone would whine about how they have no use for the camera or TV tuners and how it should have been cheaper with those an option. Ref the Blu-Ray complaints.
But who cares, the PS Store has the Folklore demo yay!
That what it basically boils down to, and believe games would be more of a focus at TGS.
Overall I think tv thing will be useful, Sky features would mean that Sky and Murdoch's corps would feel more need to favour PS3 over other consoles. Things that would not be apparent now would have consquences and thus play in Sony favour.
Like others I do not consider TV to be the main thing that I personally want from consoles but it will be useful, watch this space.
And you'll see me saying exactly the same thing when MS get around to announcing concrete details on their IPTV thingymajig too.
I buy consoles for gaming/playing online, that's it! All these other media things the big three want to add to their consoles will never interest me.
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I own all current generation consoles (except a PSP) so I don't actually have a 'precious' in any singular sense, the press release was still dull as dish water though.
That is if you assume Sigmagoat is Sony's only customer.
As for hardcore gaming, not to fish a flame but that why I spread my bet and able to get something from X360 or PC!
PS3 will be fine as there are still good games coming up, but mostly months away and the troubles for them is that Sony dont want to leave to MS and Nintendo to take up greater market share during the lull.
TV thing is going to be useful than we give it credit for.
Me: Dude, I just want to play games.
Sony Guy: *LAUGHS* You are a retard.
Me: *All Sad*
I hope for Sony's sake that their TGS announcements are a whole lot more exciting.
I mean that was actually soooo boring, that the usual Sony Defense Squad haven't even made an appearence on this comments section to defend it all
Yawn at the conference! perhaps i was expecting too much...would have been better if he said "and now you can play these games now in demo form on the network"...or such like!
oh well back to waiting for Bioshock!
Keza and the blogger were the highlights by one billion miles. Kudos to those two.
Not good Sony; too much TV shite, not enough games.
Man I am off to get me a bath!
Hope Tokyo would be better
scheisse!
scheisse!
scheisse!
Oh yeah, there was Buzz....
/thud
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
That'll be the bloke with the dodgy knees.
I hope for you PS3 owners that they're saving the best until last, because this is drab....
/sells tele
Dude how can something so simple make me laugh
1+ classic line
Buzz wants more, he says. Internet play, for example. "Strangers are just people you haven't humiliated yet."
I think he is mistaking europeans for americans. :/
Now to read your lot's comments, to see if we're thinking along the same lines
heh
Smashes PSP into little bits.
Where the excitment? Give us PS3 owners something to be cheerful about!
All the guy is doing is making silly remarks.
lol
True dat.
True enough... but I also doubt that Buzz's target audience will even own a PS3 at this early stage.
Framerate?
GT5 P online. Nice
- Everything is going great
- There's a new TV tuner peripheral that no one will buy
- The games that you already knew were coming out, are still coming out
Well worth queuing for
Lol thats goin on my playstation forums sig
lol
Didn't know you needed a digital lifestyle? You do. Sony / Apple / Microsoft say so (delete where appropriate).
So that's about 1.5 million European PS3s then.
if i wanted a PVR I would buy a PVR not a PS3 + PVR add-on. Unless i already owned a PS3 that is. Which i wont until they get a considerable amount of decent exclusives out.
Do something about it then. Get up and slow hand clap
I hope they have embargoed some more interesting news than that!
good effort on the typing while standing though.
BST, IS british summertime, BST is +1 hour of GMT (greenwich mean time) so it should have started nearly 20min ago
and it will give you the current time, which is 16.17pm
http://kotaku.com/gaming/breaking/metal-...
17:01 No one spoke
17:02 No one spoke
17:03 No one spoke...I could go on...
/presses the refresh button rapidly
Prediction: Rumble Sixaxis by Christmas.
"\o/ Dualshock 3!"
Oh come on! I can't believe you missed the obvious: TripleShock!
/gets popcorn
/straps self in
I dont even have PS3..only got an Xbox. You would have thought that the microsoft product would have the easy to upgrade option..balls..
Ill be buying a PS3 for Rumble 3, PVR HD, GT5 and Singstar...the 360 will be used for everything else!
/crosses fingers
No... that's for TGS next month
Machetazo - New trailer featuring bosses has been confirmed. There's been some scans already.
EDIT 2: Actually here it is: http://kotaku.com/gaming/breaking/metal-...
btw - still no sotc - do you think it might be lost forever?? :S
- did you put your return address on it?
JOOOOOIN!
EDIT: Should have TouchSense.
Didn't Sony say Home will go public beta in August?
oh well - a free ps3
how's life? - this is kinda like msn eh?
EDIT: Also from the Daily Mail:
Sony is set to take on Sky by turning its PlayStation 3 games console into a digital video recorder.
The new add-on, called PlayTV, will go on sale early next year in Europe.
The current freeview channels will be available, as well as the high definition channels when they begin broadcasting.
Programmes can be stored on the PS3's hard drive and can be watched back via Sony's PSP portable games console.
Although Sony refused to confirm a price for PlayTV, it confirmed users will not pay a monthly fee.
A seven-day TV guide and a button that sets it to record an entire series will be other features.
predictions: unveils die-yak!s x-station 4361 next-gen gaming console - overpriced, poorly built and underwhelming online - XSTATION - The Best Of Both Worlds
Sky shows for PSP
Dual Shock 3 by Xmas
Freeview dongle and PVR update early next year streamable via location free to PSP.
Downloadable TV and movie gubbins next year too.
No price cut.
That is all
Miles better than watching or listening to the real thing
that means my working day will stop at 17:00 today. I'll still be sat in my chair getting paid though.
edit:i'll put my money on PS3 & PSP digital tuners, small price adjustment, release dates for already known titles & slim PSP, Pro Evo 2008 demonstration & detials of next PS3 & PSP firmware updates
Watching nothing unfold slowly, in real-time, via text is brilliant