Jack Tretton said the supply of PS3 should catch up to demand around April or May of this year. When asked about the rumor of unsolved PS3 sitting in store shelves throughout United States and Japan, Tretton responded with ?It’s a testament to the fact that we’ve been able to manufacture and ship units [...]
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Sony release new firmware for PS3 this morning. The 1.54 has minor updates for video chatting functions. Apparently, you can now resize video chat screen size and use any USB camera compatible with USB video class on your PS3. This seems to be the only real update to PS3.
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GameDaily Biz got a chance to talk to Jamil Moledina, executive director of Game Developers Conference. The interview basically talked about the state of GDC compared to E3 and D.I.C.E. Most of the interview wouldn?t interest PS3 owners, except the part about Phil Harrison?s keynote speech.
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A Spanish gaming site has posted some new pictures of upcoming PS3 game Lair. The PS3 exclusive game will feature massive battles between dragons as well as humans. The graphics alone should get you to buy the game.
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Ubisoft will be making a short movie based on Assassin?s Creed at their newly created digital film studio in Montreal. The studio will focus on blending movie and video game developments. The company will also use non traditional method to distribute the film. Also, users can modify and alter stories according to [...]
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Blu-ray has been taking it to HD-DVD lately in terms of hardware sale and movie sales. Since the launch of PS3, Blu-ray movies have steadily outselling its counterpart in terms of movie sales. The European and Australian PS3 launch should only bolster Blu-ray sales.
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Sony?s deal with Midway is finally paying off for the PS3 owners. Sony has listed Mortal Kombat II for release in March. This game should bring back fond memories for older gamers who stood in line to play at the local arcade. Remember trying to unlock all the fatalities and secret characters [...]
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In a rather surprising move, Sony has priced its first-party title games at 59.99 EUR and 39.99 GBP. The downloadable games will cost between 2.99 EUR and 9.99 EUR. SCEE boss, David Reeves, stressed the free cost to register on PlayStation Network compared to that of Xbox live subscription. Also, the price [...]
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According to kotaku, Sony in Japan is giving away free stuff to lure customers to buy PS3. The Japundit blog is reporting that Sony is trying to customers who might be skittish about the high price tag. There is no word on what the free stuff is.
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Sony finally responded to the news of ?gimped? PAL PS3s hitting Europe. In an interview with Three Speech blog, Sony confirmed that Emotion Engine synthesizer has been removed from PAL PS3, which is the reason why PS2 emulation will be limited on the PAL PS3s. When asked if this was to cut manufacturing [...]
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GameDaily Biz recently scored an interview with Phil Harrison of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios at D.I.C.E. The interview encompassed many subjects including negativity from the press, sluggish PS3 sales, price cuts, and rumble function for the controller.
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During an insiders-only event in Tokyo, cofounder of Koei, Keiko Erikawa, made bolt prediction that Gundam Musou would sell two million copies worldwide. Erikawa said ?For us, Bandai’s Gundam is one million, and the Musou series is one million. We’d like to sell a total of two million copies.” The Musou game, set [...]
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Apparently, Sony has no intention of releasing Warhawk as download only game. Kotaku contacted Sony regarding the report from 1up.com?s Sam Kennedy and Sony denied that the game will be available only through download. According to Sony, they have not made any decision regarding the distribution method for the game.
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Sony has just issued a press release for the hardware specification for European PS3. In the press release, Sony indicates that PAL version of the PS3 will have very limited backward compatibility with PS and PS2. According to various news sources, Sony has moved the emulation load from the hardware to software. [...]
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Activision is throwing in some sweet extras for their upcoming game Spider-Man 3 for the PS3 owners. The game which is slated to be released on Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PSP, and DS in early May 4 will include special extras for the PS3 version. The PS3 version, which will be called Spider-Man [...]
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