The Sony press conference kicked off just moments ago, and the company brought da noise with Sony style: Strong, assertive and with the kind of swagger that only comes from having won the last console war hands-down.
Here are some of the major highlights:
- Jack Tretton showed up as his PSHome character. Pretty nifty. the Avatar walked through Home Square, apparently a new area of Home.
- Tretton: "over the past 14 years...Sony has strived to deliver great entertainment and innovation... we're going to show you games, games and more games." Good call, Sony.
- A little love for the PS2: Tretton trumpets the console's sucess and says over 160 games are coming to the console this year.
- PSP Games shown include: SOCOM U.S. Navy Seals Tactical Strike, Wipeout: Pulse, Syphon Filter; Logan's Shadow, NBA '08, God of War: Chains of Olympus, Silent Hill Origins, Patapon, Tiger Woods '08, Sonic Rivals 2, Sims 2: Castaway, SWAT: Target Liberty, Final Fantasy Tacktics: The war of the Lion, Castlevania.
- Tretton showed off some of the awesome custimization stuff available on the PSHome. Kaz and Tretton virtually "hung out" and did a little comedy. Comedy is hard for everyone, so we gave them a pass.
- Kaz took the stage to cheers and unveiled the new PSP!
- New PSP: still has UMD, but it's 33% lighter than current and 19% slimmer. Improved battery, improved video, and can be hooked up to televisions! Wow!
- Kaz demoed the new PSP with a showing of Spiderman 2, controlled from a PSP.
- Comes in designer colors: "Ice Silver" Comes with Daxter and 1meg memory stick and The Family Guy: Frickin' Sweet UMD.
- Chewbaca (?!!) made an appearance to show off the Star Wars: Battlefront bundle. A white PSP with Darth Vader on the back. $199.99. TheFeed thinks corporate executives should not try to do comedy. Also, when did we drop acid?
- Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron comes out this fall.
- PlayStation Network is next up. 2 million users and 20 million downloads, according to Tretton.
- Phil Harrison takes the stage. Shows off five games from the PlayStation Network: EchoChrome, a puzzle game that look simply waste-your-life amazing. Like an Escher print and Line Rider had a genius offspring. You'll be hearing a lot about this one.
- Pain. Funny, destructive and as addictive as you can imagine.
- PS Network Games Shown include: Wipeout HD, Warhawk, SOCOM Confrontation.
- PlayStation Home: Home client can run on Sony phones. Without graphics, but with all the social networking acess.
- Harrison showed off some of the new spaces in Home. Very impressive.
- SingStar playable within Home.
- Harrison demonstrates the media capabilities of the phone/home connection by taking, then instantly uploading a photo of the crowd to PlayStation Home. Instantly uploads photos to Home. Very cool.
- Can push screenshots from in Home to webpages. Like MySpace but for fake you. :)
- Ability to launch any game from PS3 from inside Home.
- Shows off Motorstorm from Home. Eagles Nest map available next month.
- 80 gig PS3 model will be priced at $599 and is available on August.
- Sales of 60 gig model have doubled, according to Tretton.
- Prediction of 11 million sales of PS3s this year.
- Sony "never waivered in belief that Blu-Ray was the way to go."
- Tretton trumpets a 2-to-1 sales ration of Blu-Ray over HD-DVD.
- 120 games. 15 exclusive first-party games.
- Trailer for Ubisoft's Haze, a PS3 exclusive that many, many gamers are waiting for. Amazing visuals. Truly breathtaking.
- Sony announces Unreal Tournament 3 as a PlayStation 3 exclusive! Also: user created mods will be transferable from PCs to PS3s. NICE!
- Other games coming: Call of Duty 4, Assassin's Creed, Kane and Lynch: Dead Men, Resident Evil 5, Burnout Paradise, Madden NFL '08, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, The Simpson's Game, Guitar Hero III, Medal of Honor Airborn, and Rock Band.
- Tretton announces another Third Party Exclusive: Metal Gear Solid 4, putting to rest rumors that the game might be headed to 360s.
- Metal Gear Solid 4 will be the LAST Metal Gear game...evar!
- Real Time footage of the game was shown, and it is as good as it could possibly be. Wow. Blown away.
- Metal Gear Solid coming in "Early 2008!"
- Harrison and Tretton went on to discuss exclusives coming for the PS3, including Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, Folklore, Heavenly Sword, NBA '08, LittleBigPlanet, (including a video of the game's building tools.) and finally, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.
- Infamous, a newly announced title featuring dark, brooding visuals and plot.
- Pulling everything together: Impressive, in-game footage of first person war title Killzone 2.
Of course, you could watch the whole thing unfold in our streaming (then archived) stream. Right here.
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I mean u got Socom? who gives a shit when Call of Duty 4 is coming out.
Socom wont even be able to compete.
O u got Wipeout and Warhawk coming?
Again they both look like shit considering its the most powerful console ever and the graphics still look like shit Ps2 graphics.
Pshome = who cares i have a pc.
Pretty much every game they showed that was even remotely exciting is also coming to the 360.
Now u have Konami saying MGS4 will probably be coming to the 360 which is funny cause the 360 dont even need it.
If anything Konami needs the 360 more than the 360 needs Konami.
Sony E3 = Epic Fail
What a joke Sony.
Microsoft showed me about 15 games i want to play this christmas.
Mass Effect ,Halo ,Splinter Cell(not going to the Ps3 at all), GTA4, Call of Duty 4, And a few others i seen but cant recall right this minute.
Point being they showed me some games i will be playing this Christmas, they didnt stand up there yapping about how cool BluRay is and how well the Dvds are selling.
Sony i must say also your presentation and people speaking were just plain boring like your content.
The Microsoft show had me on the edge of my seat half the time, but the guys u had showing your games acted like they were trying really hard to get it over with and get on to the next topic like the Psp and Pshome?
Sad Sony just Sad.
I see Nintendo and Microsoft 1 and 2 in sales.
With Microsoft having a small edge in sales.
Sony a distant 3rd.
Here's a good idea for all u PS3 owners. Take your ps3, open it up, get rid of the inerts, put hinges on the back, put heating elements in it & grill pans and you have your very own PS3 Countertop Grill(paten pending)
Sony, give it up already will ya!!!!
Please tell me all thei hopes are not resting on Metal Gear solid?
I'm a fan of the PS2, but it's only so long till that system is no longer viable... at that point I'll probably go Wii60. Good luck Sony, you'll need it.
sorry for the double post
Lair is a great looking game. Unreal Tournament has always been one of my favorites (on PC). And the platformer, whose name escapes me at the moment, looks trememndous. But I have a hard time putting that together to go against Mass Effect, Halo 3, GTA4's exclusive DLC.
If I had the money to spend $1000 on games and systems, I would buy a PS3. The bad thing is, I would still have $200-$300 leftover because there just isn't that much out there. Maybe next year, once the 150 new games hit the system, I'll revisit my decision. It's still a great system, just not enough reason to buy it yet.
Nice try, but your idiocy was showing.
Maybe thats why u dont see that many Sony lovers in here.
Cause they dont exist.
Face it your system sucks and its going to get its ass whooped so bad this Christmas any company making games for it not owned by Sony will be jumping the the 360's dick so fast youll be licky to play any games at all on the Ps3.
U got BluRay movies and Blockbuster has got your back though.
Sad really it is how bad Sony fails.
Wow u really are blinded by Sony's dick in your mouth arnt u.
by the time PS3 is a good buy the next next gen will be ready to go
GOD I LOVE MY XBOX
Nice try at correcting me though.
Its in fact u who showed idiocy and a inability to read correctly.
And u wont be playing it this year so.
Its looks great though and im sure it will do well when it comes out.
If they could have had it ready for this Christmas though it would have helped the Ps3 alot.
The plot thickens....
(LOL)
The really hi-rezzed short-ass game gears of war and the overly hyped halo3 (halo is super overrated, half u guys dont even understand da 'ing story) will have you 360 fans wet in the panties. But not me.
thats the best your gonna get on a 360. Lair, uncharted, ratchet, heavenly sword, killzone and many more are jus a bit of what you can do.one develpors see that shit they gon jump on sonys ship.
The really hi-rezzed short-ass game gears of war and the overly hyped halo3 (halo is super overrated, half u guys dont even understand da 'ing story) will have you 360 fans wet in the panties. But not me.
thats the best your gonna get on a 360. Lair, uncharted, ratchet, heavenly sword, killzone and many more are jus a bit of what you can do.one develpors see that shit they gon jump on sonys ship.
The really hi-rezzed short-ass game gears of war and the overly hyped halo3 (halo is super overrated, half u guys dont even understand da 'ing story) will have you 360 fans wet in the panties. But not me.
thats the best your gonna get on a 360. Lair, uncharted, ratchet, heavenly sword, killzone and many more are jus a bit of what you can do.one develpors see that shit they gon jump on sonys ship.
Ok, so you have a few exclusives, but the Sony (whom was HANDS DOWN the console winner for the last generation) is in it for the long run. Unlike MS, Sony is all about a quality product. Hence the huge difference in malfunctioning units between the 360 (30%) and the PS3 (5%). Of course those are rough statistics, but the difference is clear. So it's been a year and we have to wait for PS3 content, it's called faith and patience. Blu-Ray is already kicking the sh#t out of HDDVD which means all you 360 users aren't going to be in the next-gen video format bandwagon. That's just too bad.
Oh, and I'm watching G4 right now! Quote "MS was kinda boring, Sony was the winner in conferences."
Sony is still bleedin' by the neck for the rest of 2007. Now 2008 there may be some good things coming up. Their internal studios are going to try and turn it up. Did Folklore look like Fable2? I couldn't tell, as I was in a meeting when that clip came up on my PC. I'll see it when I get home abd see the Tivo recording I have.
Bottomline I'll stick with my Wii60 for now. No reason to even consider a PS3.
Ok, so you have a few exclusives, but the Sony (whom was HANDS DOWN the console winner for the last generation) is in it for the long run. Unlike MS, Sony is all about a quality product. Hence the huge difference in malfunctioning units between the 360 (30%) and the PS3 (5%). Of course those are rough statistics, but the difference is clear. So it's been a year and we have to wait for PS3 content, it's called faith and patience. Blu-Ray is already kicking the sh#t out of HDDVD which means all you 360 users aren't going to be in the next-gen video format bandwagon. That's just too bad.
Oh, and I'm watching G4 right now! Quote "MS was kinda boring, Sony was the winner in conferences."
So you get your opinions from a middle aged man that acts like a two year old? I f anybody remembers, killzone sucked ass last time i played it. Sure the graphics are top notch, but the story and game play look the same. Sony has already lost many of its exclusive titles to MS. This should set and alarm off in all the Sony fan boys heads. If they loose MGS4 to MS. You might as well just use your brick as a door stop. As for the Blu-ray, I do agree that it is a much better format than HD-DVD. This doesn’t mean that MS can't make an external Blu-Ray drive like they did with the HD-DVD player. I predict that this is the end of Sony’s reign and they will be taking a rape shower very soon.
I never said anything about UMD, even I think UMD sucks. They should have gone with mini disc if anything, or pure downloads. I don't make the products. You must not realize though, that next-gen video formats dictate next-gen game formats. It's odd that the Xbox doesn't support HDDVD games. So you're stuck with the limited 9Gigs of DVD. If that's fine for you, than you must not like progress.