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Live from the Sony Press Conference - (UPDATE# 24)

Posted May 08, 2006 at 07:59PM by Christopher C. Listed in: News
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Our man Chris G is in the heart of the Sony Press Conference, and we'll be updating this blog post with his up to the minute accounts of just what's going down over there. The conference started quite a bit later than it was supposed to (10 minutes late), but rest assured it won't be long till you get the answers you crave.


This post will stay on top to give you quick access to news as it breaks. For other E3 news, please scroll further down.



UPDATE 1: Five PSP titles have just reached Greatest Hits status, they are Ape Escape, ATV offroad, Hot Shots, Twisted Metal, WipeOut Pure. (I'll take me some cheapo Wipeout thanks!)


UPDATE 2: Confirmation that the GPS and Camera accessories for the PSP are indeed on the way and will be here soon. Does anyone care? The camera could be pretty neat though.


UPDATE 3: ALL PS3's to ship with a Hard Drive... YAY! Two different configurations. One with a 20GB HDD retailing for $500, and the second configuration with a 60GB HDD for $600. Start saving guys.


UPDATE 4: Next Gran Turismo shown in High Definition


UPDATE 5: PS3 will be playable on show floor, with some of the games running on final realtime dev kits.


UPDATE 6: Gran Turismo is targeting 1080p, it uses the HDD to lower loading times to just a few seconds... 2-3 seconds actually. BOOYAA!


UPDATE 7: Turns out the Gran Turismo demo is really just GT:4 running at 12 times the resolution, it looks amazing but not head and shoulders above PGR:3. Still, it's just a demo.


UPDATE 8: Kaz Hirai demo's the PSP's PSone emulator, playing Ridge Racer 1 in letterbox widescreen. I want to have his children.


UPDATE 9: PS3's basic networking service will be free and include voice messaging, text messaging, player profiles, account management, video chat, and access to the latest info... whatever that last part means.


UPDATE 10: Phil Harrison demo's the PS3 interface, purchases a few songs and game specific content, levels, characters etc.


UPDATE 11: Heavenly Sword is demo'd using a PS2 Dual Shock. The red haired protagonist takes on hordes of bad guys in a sun soaked arena. The animation's fantastic. CRAZY Badass areial combat as well! Looks just about as good as last year's E3 demo save for some jaggies.


UPDATE 12: Lair is shown, there's no way this real time... it looks too good! Huge dragons, fluid animation and some breathtaking action as a character leaps off his ride, flying through the air before landing on his enemies beast, stabbing it in the wing as he does so.


UPDATE 13: The Getaway is also shown, it also looks too good to be true. I think everyone's in denial at this point. The camera pans across a busy London street as people walk by and cars zoom past the screen. it continues to pull into a dark alleyway showing us the hardened face of a man, his arm outstretched. The camera travels down his arm till it reaches the tip of a smoking gun, continuing its lazy movement it finally comes to rest by the side of a slumped body.



UPDATE 14: Sweet MOSES! Naughty Dog's new game is shown, not title yet but it looks amazing. Think young Indiana Jones. A young man in a white t-shirt and jeans jumps gaps, avoids traps and trades bullets and punches in a jungle environment that's part Tomb Raider part Temple of Doom.


UPDATE 15: Resistance: Fall of Man has gone leaps and bounds ahead of when we last saw it. The 360 is going to have to pull something really special to match the visual fidelity on display so far. 32 player online multiplayer and it's going to be playable on the show floor. Look forward to our impressions.


UPDATE 16: Tekken's underwhelming. Nowhere near as good as the CG demo last year. Maybe the gameplay's been altered? Next please.


UPDATE 17: Amazing footage shown of a game called Eight Days. Looks to be set in Phoenix, there's a car chase through the desert some guys lean out of their ride to take pot shots at the car in the lead, there's tumbling and exploding as the car is torn apart. Cut to a roadblock in the middle of the desert, a firefight breaks out which spills into a nearby diner. The animation and physics are off the hook. No way this all realtime gameplay.


UPDATE 18: Coded arms is coming to the PS3... because you loved it so much on the PSP.


UPDATE 19: NBA Live 07....spooky. They move just like human beings. Emphasis on "footplanting". No more sliding around the floor here.


UPDATE 20: Tiger Woods PS3 demo of facial expressions and animation. Swear it looks real... real I tell you.


UPDATE 21: An extended Final Fantasy 13 video is shown... it looks even better than the Final Fantasy 7 tech video shown last year.


UPDATE 22: Sony's controller is a Wiimote. Microsoft am cry. Nintendo huffs off in an angry rage.


UPDATE 23: Warhawk is demo'd using the new PS3 Dual Shock /Wiimote capabilities. The player tilts the controller like a plane, banking left, right up and down to control the aircraft. Looks pretty cool but the player looks like a ninny. Gamers everywhere am cry.

UPDATE 24: North American release date is Nov 17th. Two launch configurations.

20GB HD version  - $500
60GB HD version - $600

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   by Capagotks (Unregistered) - 2006-05-08
 » FIRST POST!!!
yess!!!!!!!!!!! first post!!! woot!!!

Anyway, if the guy who posted this artical is reading this, can you post some of the demo's you can download there on the site?

thanks

   by Cant Spell (Unregistered) - 2006-05-08
 » lol
hes in the hear of the conference...

   by Japots (Unregistered) - 2006-05-08
 » ...
Why post that in the DS section? It's not like a Sony press conference would have anything to do with Nintendo, unless they suddenly have a magical agreement to start making mutliplayer games that are PSP and DS compatible.

   by Demos (Unregistered) - 2006-05-08
 » Demos
Please UPLOAD PSP DEMOS !!!!

   by capagotks - 2006-05-08
 » re no 3
are you drunk or something? wtf Its a sony conference not nintendo.

**duh im an idiot and i donts no how too reed stuffff becus im dubm huh huhuh uhuhuh huh !!!11!!1!11!!!1**

   by @5 (Unregistered) - 2006-05-08
 » @5
umn... why not hold ***** and 1 istead of presing ***** one ***** one ***** one ***** one ***** one ***** one lol
also will the camera and gps have to be 2.7 probobly huh well if one of em is serial then maybee i hope somebody will hack to be able to use them with 1.5

and since gps will be reaching sattelites even when there is no wi-fi hot spots near by (duhhhh) it might alow us to have wireless internet conection anywhere

   by .p0p5ux. - 2006-05-08
 » Nice!
nocomment

   by g (Unregistered) - 2006-05-08
 » g
Gran turismo hd, COOL!

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   by FreakShow! - 2006-05-08
 » Why now?
Damn. It's 1.20am here (UK) and I have to sleep to go to school tomorrow. SO tempted with the live feed.....I'm sure I can download it later, but so many important information will be there....:'(

   by Bono (Unregistered) - 2006-05-08
 » @FreakShow!
Here in Holland it's 2:25 am, and my school starts in about 5 hour's

   by g (Unregistered) - 2006-05-08
 » 1080P!
omg dude 2 second loading times for gt hd on the ps3 in 1080p!

   by .p0p5ux. - 2006-05-08
 » Looks so real!
wOW!
12 times better

   by         (Unregistered) - 2006-05-08
 » GPS @7
No, the potential for wireless sattelite internet is extremely unlikely. GPS devices rarely (If ever) send signals up to the sattelites in space, they just recieve the signals coming down, triangulate based on angle/position/signal strength (or something like that) from the sattelites, and get an approximate point accurate somewhere within 10-20 feet depending on the number of sattelites in range to help verify data. Unfortunately this means the system is is completely bunk if there are less than 3 sattelites within range.

basically, the only way you could get sattelite internet with this thing is if you carried around a mini-dish that you kept continuously pointed in the direction of the sattelite. The alternative would be to use an extreme high power transmitter which doesn't go over to well with the FCC, may give you brain cancer, and would eat through tons of battery. Another problem that comes up is the considerably higher lag time you get on sattelite internet, thus making online games laggy and unplayable.

In summary, NO YOU THICK BASTARD

And @1, the downloads are gonna be temporary ones that aren't saved to the mem stick so STFU already!

   by .p0p5ux. - 2006-05-08
 » Looks so real!
It looks better than 360!

   by g (Unregistered) - 2006-05-08
 » g
"the world of gt will not expand, it will explode." wtf!

   by Japots (Unregistered) - 2006-05-08
 » heh
just watch the Live feed from gamespot of the Sony Conference. This gran turismo hd demo is boring.

   by G (Unregistered) - 2006-05-08
 » THAT CARD GAME
OMG THAT IS SO COOl!

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   by hi (Unregistered) - 2006-05-08
 » YAY
keep it comin!

   by .p0p5ux. - 2006-05-08
 » PS3 RULEZ
What tha!!
Those card are freakin awesome!

   by OMG (Unregistered) - 2006-05-08
 » THE CARD GAME
THAT WILL MAKE ME BUY A PS3, JUST FOR THAT!

   by Blah (Unregistered) - 2006-05-08
 » Thanks!
All i have to say is thanks so much for doing this!!!

   by msx (Unregistered) - 2006-05-08
 » sdfs
*****ING RIGHT THEYRE SHOWING THE PS1 EMULATOR!

*****ING YES

   by G (Unregistered) - 2006-05-08
 » ps
well the next firmware looks very similar

   by Myristate - 2006-05-08
 » from my bed
thanks for bll the info! im in holland so its night here, bnd im actually reding the updates and posting this in my bed with mypsp and the links browser! works perfect!

   by Japots (Unregistered) - 2006-05-08

Ridge Races on PS1 Emulator, sweet.

   by yrr (Unregistered) - 2006-05-08
 » yay
w00t ps1

   by Adrian (Unregistered) - 2006-05-08
 » saweet greatest hits
so will they be about 20$ canadain or so!

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   by PsYcO (Unregistered) - 2006-05-08
 » Pay per Game
Is the ps1 emu base on a game basis? I don't wanna pay 5 bucks everytime I wanna get a game I already have.

   by g (Unregistered) - 2006-05-08
 » d
dude that looks pretty cool

   by killermoose5 - 2006-05-08
 » ps1 emulator
on the gamespot e3 live sony conference they just showed a demo of the ps1 emulator of the guy playing ridge racer up and you can even adjust the sreen size,just like the loco rocco demo you have to go to the memory stick icon under the game icon to load the game up. load times look great



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