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Sony conference!
- Resistance 2 has eight-player online co-op and 60-player multiplayer battles.
- Starting this fall, all PlayStation owners will be getting a single GamerCard-like identity, which will be accessible on PCs, PS3s, and PSPs
- Gran Turismo 5 Prologue and its television offshoot, Polyphony Digital's pay-per-view Gran Turismo TV. The channel offers hundreds of hours of high-definition video content from around the world, including races from the Nurburgring, Super GT racing, and a variety of other television shows, including the BBC's popular Top Gear.
- PlayStation Video Store. On day one, it will offer content from Lionsgate, Warner, Disney, Paramount, Turner Entertainment, MGM, and (of course) Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Unlike Xbox Live marketplace, the PS Video Store will also offer movies for purchase for $9.99 to $14.99. Purchased videos will be portable, allowing players to download them onto their PSPs to view on the go. (Guess that's that for UMD...).
- Resistance: Retribution for PSP
- Sony's partnership with Google and YouTube, which allows direct video uploads. Slides behind him talk up Life of PlayStation, which is Sony's collective name for these services. It will launch by the end of the month.
- First footage of DC Universe Online. Featuring character designs from Lee, the world is brightly colored, and shows Batman, Wonder Woman, Superman, and Green Hornet, as well as a passel of user-generated heroes and villains. The PlayStation 3 logo comes up at the end.
- Sony will introduce a new 80GB PS3 in September for just $399.99. He says the console will "have the same functionality as the 40GB PS3," perhaps hinting it may not have backward compatibility. No word on what's happening to the 40GB model.
- God of War III is coming to PS3
- Brand-new "massively action title" being revealed now, which "even gives the PS3 a workout. ... There's nothing on the market today," says Tretton. Enter Andey Beaudoin, lead designer at Zipper Interactive.
Called MAG (Massive Action Game), the title will allow for 256-player battles, with players divided into squads for a tactical feel. Players will have character growth, including experience and skill sets such as demolitions and medics.
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I am kind of interested in what the video uploading is all about... not that one should choose to buy a PS3 just because of that feature, but I am still quite curious.
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While not much interested me (maybe I've reached a wall in current industry interest?), I was glad to see a company stuff as many actual games as possible into their conference. Sony did use key words like "community" in their conference, but this was the only time it didn't feel like a company was begging for non-gamers to pay attention.
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DC universe online? Thats the first Ive heard of it. Sounds interesting
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I'm liking the a) new Xbox dashboard theme - I can't help but wonder where the advertisements went, though - and b) how Gears of War 2 seems to be even more over-the-top than the original, but still seem like a competent shooter.
[edit] Mirror's Edge looks fantastic, too. A parkour game? Blue and white? Breezy, piano-y soundtrack? YES.
