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PS3 and PSP Future Plans - Sony Talks

October 28th 2008 03:28

Via the power of an online translator, Naoya Matsui, Koujiro Umemura, Masaki Takase, and Shinji Noda, all high ranking Sony Computer Entertainment employees directly responsible for firmware and network issues regarding the PS3 and PSP, gave their views and plans on the future direction for both the handheld and home consoles through the latest Random Tracking column .

The main points revolved around the addition of Flash 9 support for the PS3, a heavily requested feature to help view regular internet channels such as our YouTube or the Asian homegrown version, Nico Nico (catchy). The support has been in development for over a year according to Sony, but will at last make an appearance.

And it sounds as though performace will be excellent, as "flash-based playback for H.264 videos makes use of an SPU. This allows for loading up of web pages to be separate from video playback, improving framerate."
Just don't expect the same for the PSP... There are no plans for Flash 9 to appear in your hands any time soon.

More details qouted from the article are:

Sony's engineers do still have things in the works for the PSP. While PSP already has screen capture support built into its development tools and accessible to game developers who chose to use it, plans call for a future firmware update to add video capture support as well.

Strangely, the PS3 took the opposite route with these Web 2.0-style features. On the PS3, video playback and upload to YouTube came first. Screen capture support was added only in the latest update. Takase detailed the screen capture support just a bit, revealing that the PS3 captures in PNG format at the full resolution of the current game and stores the images in the Photo section of the XMB.

Now let's hope we'll start seeing some games that actually use the feature!

We're going to have to leave you on a sad note here, especially if you picked up one of the early 20 gigabyte PS3 systems. Sony's new Ad-Hoc Party initiative, which allows the PSP to use the PS3 as a proxy and matching server for playing internet-based games, will, as previously announced, not be supported with the 20 gigabyte PS3 due to the lack of built-in wireless networking. Umemura added in his latest comments that it would be difficult at present to allow 20 gigabyte owners to simply attach a wireless LAN adapter via USB and use the service.
All interesting news to the Playstation community.

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Motorstorm DLC Every Week - And Mostly Free

October 27th 2008 22:41

Motorstorm Pacific Rift has been eagerly anticipated for some time, and now that the release is just around the corner fans are being treated to more good news - that there is a rift full of DLC coming, and the majority of it will be free.

See the details below from the Playstation Blog (and note some of the creepier stats.... good to know i'm only a few dozen toilet rolls away from a hit game):

Its launch day for MotorStorm Pacific Rift in North America tomorrow (w00t)!

It means you all can enjoy MotorStorm Pacific Rift and we can all go on holiday. Except by this point, the UK is accelerating into winter in typical rainy, cold fashion. So it’s the Southern Hemisphere for the sun worshippers amongst the team, and a catching-up on a big pile of games in a darkened room for us redheads that find the sun overrated.

Once were all rested its back to the development bunker to finish off the DLC we have lined up for you guys in the coming months. We’ve got a pile of stuff waiting in the wings, and, you’ll be glad to know, a lot of it is free. We’re going to try and give you something new to play with every week, and we’ve also got some major packs in development that should be on the store after Christmas.

In the meantime, get those Time Trial lap times up on the leaderboards (you’re lucky as I’ve put a moratorium on our QA guys posting up there for two weeks, to let you guys get good at it), have a laugh with split screen, and enjoy this next bout of brutal off-road racing.

Laters!
Nigel

Number of pizzas consumed during development: 1,454
Number of Chinese takeaways consumed during development: 4,231
Number of curries consumed during development: 678
Miles of toilet roll used during development: 37

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Are There No More Bad Games Being Made?

October 17th 2008 05:56

The latest copy of PC Powerplay has reviewed a raft of new games, many of which are the big name releases for the coming holiday season. And lets face it, games that are acrsoss platforms these days are pretty much the same. Startling, these games, of which there are eleven, average out at a score of 7.9/10. It's easy to say that most of these titles are flagship IP's for the publishers, but in an age where smaller developers are being consumed by the EA's and Activision Blizzard's of the world, it seems to indicate that blockbuster titles are becoming the norm, designed with low risk and huge amounts of community feedback along the way.
Perhaps you put these remarkably high scores down to the reviews themselves... The question has been raised in the past as to the legitimacy of game reviewers scores, with many tarred with the gamespot brush, but this magazine has long had a reputation for quality and impartiality and there has been no reason to think otherwise.

The actual list of games looks like this:

Fallout 3 : 9
Far Cry 2 : 10
Warhammer Online : 7
Dead Space : 7
Crysis: Warhead : 7
Civilisation 4 : 8
Brothers In Arms HH: 8
Mercs 4 WIF : 7
Pro Evolution 9 : 7
X2 : 8
Falcon 4 : 9

Production values in games are at Hollywood levels now, with professional writers and directors involved. Gameplay mechanics are being improved through the boot camp of expos, media and community events held showing early builds of their games. It's a smart system, allowing hard core fans the opportunity to let the developers know where they are doing well or screwing up and giving them the chance to fix it before launch. And a system that seems to be resulting in monotonously predictable review scores.
The upside is that we are getting higher quality product, it's becoming gamers paradise. The downside... Too many to choose from? Or is it the new ways in which games are selling and marketing themselves through DLC and micro transactions? Like those changes or not, the fact is that consistancy seems to be the word of the season, with something of quality for every genre fan. And in the year to come there can only be more of the same, as developers get to grips with console technology and the emerging engines.

And the reason for the picture? I suppose it's because the moral of the story is that we can now pretty much have our cake and eat it too.

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LittleBigPlanet To Turn Your Content Into LittleBigProfit

October 17th 2008 03:07

Blogger Dean Longmore has picked up an interesting piece of information from the Sony PSN terms of use, in which they state that any User Material created throught the service (and we're looking at you LittleBigPlanet) can quite happily be sold by Sony who will even more happily keep all of the proceeds

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A Far Cry Two Sony Home

October 17th 2008 02:53

Now they have your attention. Sony has teamed up with Ubisoft to bring you content for Sony Home that actually peaks the interest. Via Home Spaces (I may have made that trademark up) you will be able to roam about a unique Far Cry 2 area, gaining new recon information via maps pinned to the inside a burned-out train station that has been now become the new office of a journalist caught in the middle of one of the games ficticious conflicts. There is also a casual game to let you while away the hours until the game is released, or you can just stand outside and hope a stray tiger doesn't to maul you while you take in the breathtaking beauty of a perfect sunset

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PS3 Gamers Brace For A Rocky Ride

October 9th 2008 01:12

Throughout the life of the PS3, stories have emerged that have highlighted the difficulty developers have had in creating games for the PS3. Early figures suggested that the cost was prohibitive for most third parties as the advanced technology required a lot more manpower, time and expense. Add to that a dev kit whose price would stagger some second world countries and it looked as though second rate ports and first party titles were the immediate future for the console. Some developers are only now looking at bringing titles to the PS3 since the install base is just about reasonable enough to make a return on their investment. Take Valve, who have said "So whether or not you like developing for that platform, if they've got millions of people connected to that platform and buying their games you have to take it seriously." Sounds like a company ready to put out quality content

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Fracture Creates A New Multiplayer World

October 8th 2008 00:22

$fracture lucasarts xbox$

Our predictions for Fracture are, thankfully, still looking hopeful thanks to the early review of Fracture from Kotaku

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THQ Lose A Vice President And $27.2 Million

October 7th 2008 12:37

There seems to be no end to the movements happening in the gaming industry at the moment. THQ is the next in line, with 27.2 million dollar losses and the announcement that Jack Sorensen, executive vice president of worldwide studios, has quit the company

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Star Wars MMO To Release On 21st October?

October 7th 2008 00:15

The Force is strong with this one... This one being the day of the 21st October. The date has been textured in as the launch of a new LucasArts and Bioware joint proejct, considered by most to be the much anticipated and often spoken of Star Wars MMO

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Dead Space DLC Unique To Each Platform

October 2nd 2008 05:09

EA are letting you choose which console will be the better for the upcoming space horror shooter Dead Space

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Cliff Bleszinski: "F*%#ing Hates" The PS3 Controller

September 30th 2008 23:43

It doesn't sound like Gears Of War will be heading PS3-side anytime soon

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Nintendo To Announce Game "Everyone Is Waiting For"

September 30th 2008 23:27

There are a lot of games we are currently waiting for, so for Nintendo to come out and say that they are preparing to unveil a game that "everyone is waiting for" might seem like a stretch, particularly since no one seems to have any idea as to what that game might be

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Microsoft: 360 Outselling PS3 Two To One

September 30th 2008 23:15

Marketing and sales information company no. 573556, Chart Track, have released figures showing that Microsoft have shot ahead in sales across Europe. Up 214 per cent in the past two weeks, the recent price cuts have catapulted the 360 well into the lead

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Playstation Australia Crashes Under Beta Key Traffic

September 25th 2008 04:20

Only minutes afer the news came out that LittleBigPlanet beta keys could be obtained from the official Playstation Australia website the site has become innaccessible

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