Kaz Hirai announced during Sony’s press event at TGS that Home has been delayed until Spring 2008.
Apparantly, the developers wanted to further fine tune everything before unleashing the online meeting place on the world. Hopefully Sony will further extend the Beta before the final release next year.
Want to know what the coolest part if of Remote Play now? Being able to turn your PS3 on and off remotely from anywhere in the world. Holy f’ing crap! If you want to remotely play some PS3 games or stream videos to your PSP from anywhere in the world, now you can.
No word on when the firmware updates would be released for PS3 and PSP to support this new features.
Sony really threw down the hammer at TGS. Between this and the DualShock 3 official announcement, the PS3 is continuing to look better and better.
Kaz Hirai, master of the PlayStation World, let the cat out of the bag (finally). The rumble-enabled version of the SIXAXIS, now called the DualShock 3, will be making it’s way to a PS3 near you.
No pricing has been set as of yet, but expect the new controller to drop in Japan in November and hit the US and Europe in Spring 2008. Why the huge delay? Anyway, the controller is said to be slightly heavier, with no outward appearance changes other than the addition of the DualShock 3 logo on the controller.
I’m quite excited about this one. Going to have to replace my current SIXAXIS with a DualShock 3 to get my rumble back for PS3 games.
Microsoft has been using their “X” Series conferences (X04, X05, X06) to reveal new Xbox related info for the past few years. But no more.
Aaron Greenberg, of Xbox 360 and Xbox Live Group Product Manager fame, confirmed to Squad XP that there will be no X07 this year. Instead, Microsoft will be searching for a new means to for delivering their big news to gamers and industry alike.
We all know they didn’t deliver anything at E3, so Microsoft better find something pretty fast.
Sony finished off E3 with the last press conference from the three console manufacturers. And just how did they do? There were some new game trailers, the announcement of the new slim PSP, and some new games (click here for more in depth coverage).
So what did everyone here at Loot Ninja think of the press conference? Read on to find out.
drunk pandas: Sony came into E3 on a slight high after announcing the $100 price cut of the 60GB PS3 and announcement of the 80GB model. They had a lot to prove to fans and the industry, as the negative press surround the PS3 was quite strong. This year, we got to see a lot of Jack Tretton, and less of Krazy Kaz Hirai.
Nintendo was sandwiched in the middle off E3 with the second press conference from the three console manufacturers. And just how did they do? There were some new game trailers and some new games/controllers announced (click here for more in depth coverage).
So what did everyone here at Loot Ninja think of the press conference? Read on to find out.
drunk pandas: With Nintendo, I was expecting a lot of games, since there is a great lack right now. The great Reggie-nator showed up some videos of Super Mario Galaxy (with a release date), announced Mario Kart for the Wii with online play, showed off the wheel for Mario Kart, and announced the Wii Zapper accessory. I can’t say I wasn’t disappointed by all of this. The Wii, for many people, has been lacking quality titles to really give a reason to play the system.
Microsoft led off E3 with the first press conference from the three console manufacturers. And just how did they do? There were some new game trailers, the announcement of the Halo 3 Limited Edition Xbox 360, and some new games/controllers announced (click here for more in depth coverage).
So what did everyone here at Loot Ninja think of the press conference? Read on to find out.
drunk pandas: Microsoft came into E3 as the dominant console manufacturer in the US. The Xbox 360 is selling lot hot cakes, despite the hardware issues. The games have been there to prove the system, and Xbox Live is their killer-app. So what does Microsoft do in this situation? They sit back and let the competition take over. I just really don’t understand the marketing mindset at Microsoft right now. They need to keep pushing to gain even more ground. It seems like they’re content with being ahead now, and with deal with whatever comes in the next couple years once the competition is biting them on the heals.
Take that Guitar Hero. F’ing Metallica. At last night’s EA press conference, Harmonix CEO Alex Rigopulos let the world know that Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” would be shipping with the game. Not only that, but more tracks from the band would be available as downloads.
Speaking of downloads, new content will be available every single week after the game’s release. And not just single songs and song packs, but whole albums as well. “Who’s Next” by The Who will be the first full album available to download. This will work on both the PS3 and Xbox 360. No word on pricing just yet.
I think Guitar Hero is going to lose out in this battle.
For the Sony press conference, I sat down with fierce Scuba to watch and critique all things PlayStation. We recorded our chat session and present that to you now for your reading pleasure.
Overall, we both think Sony had the best showing of the three console makers by far. They had the most to prove, and they stepped up big with some great games and enhancements for the PlayStation Network.
All the trailers shown today are now available on the PlayStation Store, so go fire up your PS3 and check them out in beautiful High Definition.
No announcements of a rumble SIXAXIS or details on the video download service for the PSN. I guess we have to wait for the Tokyo Game Show in a few weeks for those details.
Our very good pals over at GameTactics put in some work to get everyone the press conference schedule for this year’s E3, being held this July. I’m thinking we’re going to see a lot of announcements still, just no massive show floor with banging music and half naked women. Ahhhh the good old days.
From GameTactics:
Here’s the full breakdown schedule as of today, all times are PST:
Tuesday July 10th
8:30PM - Microsoft Press EventWednesday July 11th
9:30AM - Nintendo Press Conference
11:30AM - Sony Computer Entertainment Press Conference
2:00PM - EA Press Conference
3:15PM - Activision Press Conference
4:30PM - Midway Press Conference
5:45PM - Konami Press ConferenceThursday July 12th
8:30AM - Take Two Interactive Press Conference
9:00AM - THQ Press Conference
10:30AM - Ubisoft Press Conference
1:00PM - Namco Bandai Press Conference
3:30PM - Disney Interactive Press Conference
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