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Nintendo VP: There had to be a price cut for PS3! 2007-07-24 04:12:00 Nintendo's Vice President Marketing and Communications commented in an interview with GameDaily that Sony had no choice but cutting the price
of the PS3:"I don't think they had any choice. It's pretty soon after launch to be dropping your price, but I'm pretty sure they had to do it. They had to start momentum in some form, but we don't think it's something that'll hurt us. It doesn't really affect us, since they're still far enough away."Nintendo Gamecube had also a price cut after six months, but let Nintendo be happy now it's still possible :p, because PS3 will rule!He also said that Microsoft released the Xbox360 early to dominate the market, but that they're having hardware problems now. Read more:Nintendo
Price drop produces 135% jump in sales PS3 2007-07-24 03:53:00 Since the price drop--$100-- was announced, Sony has seen a 135% jump in sales PS3 at the top five retailers. People must have rushed to the stores, because there are no 60GB PS3 systems in production anymore.During this period, software sales increased by 15% and accessories by 60%. In June sales of the PS3 increased by 21% over May's figures with 98,469 units sold. (But this is still nothing compared to PS2 with 270,763 consoles sold).Jack Tretton, president and CEO of SCEA commented in a press release:"The new price on the 60 GB PS3, coupled with our very strong software showing from E3, is certainly paying dividends in terms of impressive sales across the board at retail."
Sony wants to make us cry!!! 2007-07-23 17:41:00 David Reeves mentioned in an interview there are many "absolutely spectacular" games under development which we don't know anything about that will come out by the end of 2008.He also mentioned that one of the Phill Harrison's most important objectives is to make games with so much emotion in it that they will make us cry.Well, I'm curious and look forward to play these games. I want to see games using the whole power of Playstation 3 and I know you do too--fanbboys :p--. Read more:Sony
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Ratchet and Clank demo very soon 2007-07-23 17:02:00 According to Dave Karracker from Sony, we can expect the demo of Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction very soon on Platstation Network.He didn't give an exact date, maybe it will be available at the same time as Heavenly Sword--July 26th--? Well, that would be nice :)
European Playstation Network updates thursday 26 July 2007-07-23 14:39:00 I begin with a very good news, what you probably already know: Sony has now confirmed there will be a playable demo of Heavenly Sword on the European
PSN this thursday. The final version will be released on September 4th.The European PSN will also be updated with:PSOne games:- Crash 2- Spyro 2- Medievil- Wipeout 2097Trailers: - Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction- GT5 Prologue Read more:updates
PS3 vs. Xbox360 in Japan 5:1 2007-07-23 14:26:00 According to a research from Media Create, the sales of Playstation 3 goes past the Xbox
360, outselling the competition in Japan
by a ratio of Approximately 5:1.It looks like the sales of PS3 in Japan are very good. Things are going normal now for the Playstation 3 and from September with the big titles coming, I think PS3 will have very good sales. But we have to wait a couple of months to know that for sure :)These are the sales in Japan:PS3 -- 13,493Xbox360 -- 2,942
Google launches AJAX search for the iPhone 2007-07-23 14:06:00 Google launched a search interface optimized for iPhone
that uses the AJAX
Search API and it's available at www.google.com/uds/samples/iphone/isearch.html. The interface has all the limitations of the API (for example, you can only see the first 8 results), but it's more usable on a phone.Mark Lucovsky's team has also added image search to the API, which now includes support for web search, custom search engines, image search, Google News, blog search, Google Maps and video search. Until now, the AJAX Search API was mostly used to build widgets for blogs and personalized homepages and didn't successfully replace the discontinued SOAP API. Read more:Google
Demo Jericho in August 2007-07-23 04:05:00 Andrew Wafer, Brand Manager of Jericho
, who is working at Codemasters has confirmed in an interview with Gaming Only, that there will be a demo of Jericho available in August
on both Playstation Network and Xbox360 Live.It looks like PS3 users are getting some good demos. Last week The Darkness and this Thursday Heavenly Sword.
New details GTA 4 2007-07-21 08:41:00 Here is a list of a couple of new details
about GTA 4, I know you'd love to know them:p :- There will be no Ammu Nation shops anymore. - The girl with the lollipop is called Lola. It seems that she is a prostitute, but no further information is given about her. - If you take a cab you can mark any point on the map in order to arrive there. There are even special options: If you have have hunger, you will be driven to the next fast food restaurant. If you’re hurt you’ll be driven to the hospital. - If the police searches you, you won’t find a cab that will transport you. - The camera is now positioned lower and more left when you sit in a car. According to Rockstar this gives a more realistic feeling. But there are still different camera settings.- If you’re in a mission, the map not only shows a symbol, but even a line with the best route. - You can walk, run or sprint. Latter will make you exhausted after a while. - In the mission where you have to kill the Lawyer Mr. Goldber
Confirmed: New firmware update for PS3 next week 2007-07-21 08:27:00 Patrick Seybold, The Senior PR Manager for Sony has confirmed in a post that, there is in fact something special planned for the PS3 firmware update next week. He was asked when we should be expecting the new firmware update to hit the playstation store, and he replied:"Early next week, we’ll have something on the firmware"So now we know for sure something will be coming next week.This is a rumored list of updates:Users- You can now password-protect user accounts. Settings- [Dynamic Normalizer] has been added as an option under [Sound Settings].- [Energy Saver] has been added as an option.- [Equalizer] has been added as a feature under [Music Settings].- [Full] has been added as an option for [DVD Wide Display] under [BD / DVD Settings].- [Photo Settings] has been added as an option.- [PS / PS2 Settings] has been added as an option.- [RSS Channel Settings] has been added as an option.- [Sample Rate] has been added to [Audio CD Import] under [Music Settings].- [Screen Saver] has been Read more:Confirmed
No multiplayer for Heavenly Sword 2007-07-21 04:52:00 A couple of days ago there was a rumor that HeavenlySword
will get an offline and an online multiplayer. The game would contain Capture the Flag and Deathmatch by which you could make your own custom character. Ninja Story answered to this rumor:"This is a fake. There is not a shred of truth in this. Sorry guys!"This is not the first rumor that doesn't seem to be true. This game will be released in September. Thursday next week you can download the demo on Playstation Network.*Source Read more:Heavenly Sword
Harrison: Metal Gear Solid 4 will never appear on the Xbox360! 2007-07-20 16:25:00 Jack Tretton and Hideo Kojima both confirmed at the E3 that Metal
Gear Solid
4: Guns of the Patriots will be exclusive for the PS3. After that Jack Tretton wasn't totally sure weather it will be a permanently exclusive title.Once in a while poeple (most of them Xbox
360 fanboys!:p) came with the rumor that it will also come out on the Xbox360. The Xbox360 wouldn't be designed by Hideo Kojima, but by another studio. But Phill Harrison
let know in an interview with GameInformer that MGS4 will never appear
on the Xbox360!"Is Metal Gear
Solid 4 still exclusive? Is that solidified and will never appear on the Xbox 360?"Harrison: "Yes. We said it was an exclusive title."Well, I know this is a great news for Playstation 3 fans. Congratulation! :) Read more:Metal Gear Solid
Custimized soundtracks in firmware 1.90? 2007-07-20 12:24:00 We're sure there's a more glorified term for the feature other than "customized soundtracks" but we don't feel like using any lavish vocabulary right now. This is coming from a picture supposedly taken at E3, pardon our resizing policy and click the link to see the original, where the PS3's where supposedly running a very different version of the firmware we've currently got. The difference? For starters, the "Select Music" option. It seems all those people crying to stick their own music into a game might get that chance, even if it's just a looping playlist of whatever they want.Second, the "Adjust Screen Settings" doesn't ring any bells. Could there be resolution-switching on-the-go now, instead of exiting the game back to the XMB? What happened to the assigning of memory card slots? Perhaps these features are specific to what era of PlayStation game you play? As in, slot assignments appear only if a PS One or PS2 game are present?This is all conjecture, of course, since the
Sony will surprise us at Leipzig game conference 2007-07-20 08:32:00 MCV, the UK video games trade publication, expects Sony
to reveal a number of surprises at the Leipzig game conference
at the end of August. While Sony have made no specific announcements about possible revelations, MCV already has a few ideas of what we could be seeing in a month's time. Starting with a continent-wide price cut, Sony will then announce a video-on-demand service and Freeview TV features. All rolling out before Christmas.At the moment this is all just speculation, however. Though David Reeves did say that Leipzig would see the first big peak-season "fireworks", with announcements which will make the PS3 and PSP much more appealing. What surprises are you hoping to see? We've got a whole month to speculate, so get cracking.
Google's security problems 2007-07-20 08:26:00 There are many problems
with Google
's services lately. After Google Groups had some temporary glitches, some people report that Google switches them to random accounts.Jvy Loh writes on his blog about the incidents:"It started off when I was using gg docs and after closing 1 of my docs, I was returned to my 'doc home', however, someone else's email was reflected at the top instead of mine. It disappeared soon after before I could catch what was going on. (...) Lately, the google problem came up again. Nearly everytime I boot up my computer, and login to google toolbar or gmail, I began to notice that when I went further to click on other google services, e.g. gg reader, very often I went into someone else's reader. Not just their email id replacing mine at the top, it was literally someone's reader. I could read their feeds and so on. (...) The MOST SERIOUS thing so far is that you can accidentally made changes to other user's account while you think you are modifying your own. Read more:security
Good times for Aussie PS3 owners 2007-07-20 06:33:00 Folk’s Down Under without a PS3 will soon have a good reason to buy one, while current owners have some freebies for them.SCE Oz have confirmed that the PAL 60GB Value Pack will be gracing their shores on 2nd August. The pack is the same as in the UK; it includes an extra Sixaxis and copies of Resistance: Fall of Man and MotorStorm, arguably the two best launch titles. As with other PAL territories, the price will stay the same, which in this case is $999.99 AUD (Roughly $880 USD, and £430 GBP).Meanwhile, current Aussie
PS3 owners have a present for them this morning, as now available from the PSN Store are free music videos waiting to be downloaded via arcane Interweb wizardry. The list of videos is as follows:Amy Pearson - Don't Miss YouAugie March - Cold AcreDamien Leith - Night of my lifeDean Geyer - If You Don't Mean ItKate Miller-Heidke - WordsOld Man River - LaPete Murray - So BeautifulRogue Traders - In Love AgainSmall Mercies - InnocentThe Androids - Whole Lotta LoveNo bi
Fatal Inertia for PS3: Unreal Engine "not running well enough" to release yet 2007-07-20 06:17:00 The PS3 version of Fatal
Intertia has been delayed due to "difficulties" with the UnrealEngine
's performance on the Sony hardware. The game was originally designed specifically for the system, yet is deemed to be "not running
well enough" according to a Koei representative. The Xbox 360 version is to be released ahead of it, as delaying it further while the PS3 version is fixed wasn't deemed necessary. Read more:Inertia
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Sony: PS3 Sixaxis Is Not The Final Model 2007-07-20 06:07:00 The PS3 controller went from a boomerang to the Sixaxis before the console was even released, but Sony
isn't through yet. According to Kaz Hirai, the SCEI head honcho, there's still more to come.When Kikizo recently asked him about when rumble was coming to Sixaxis, he spilled the beans about Sony's future intentions."Uh, well that's something that I know the consumers have told us they're looking to have in the PS3 controller, it's something that we're obviously looking at, now that we've reached an agreement with Immersion," said Hirai."We're also looking at a variety of other things that we can incorporate with the controller, and we'll come out with announcements when we think we have the right mix of features for the PS3 controller. I mean, as you know, that's also an evolving peripheral, if you will, in that we started out with the original PS1 controller with no analogue, and it's come all the way to this point, so obviously, as we go forward, it's not the final mod Read more:Final
Heavenly Sword = A trilogy 2007-07-19 18:09:00 Heavenly Sword
story will not stop after the first part that is going to come out September 12th. It will get sequels. Even the story of the second part is ready. Tam Antoniades, co-founder and Chief Design of Ninja Story told this in an interview today.Nariko, the main character of Heavenly Sword
has a sister, Kai. Maybe we will see her instead of Nariko in the second part of the game. Thursday next week the Playstation Network will be updated with the demo of Heavenly Sword.The game itself will be available September 12th in the stores for you to buy. Read more:Heavenly
PS3 sold more than Xbox360 2007-07-19 05:31:00 It seems that the price drop in the US really did work. According to Video Game Charts, PS3 sold more than Xbox
360 last week. These are the American sales:DS 97,404Wii 76,394PSP 50,890PS2 43,406PS3 41,005X360 35,084GBA 14,451GC 1,864Xbox 11As you can see PS2 is still very popular! This makes me very happy :)
Resident Evil 5 delayed until 2009 and more details 2007-07-18 09:32:00 Producer Jun Takeuchi has told Famitsu that Resident
Evil 5 will probably not be released in 2008 anymore. He also said that 2010 would be too late(really?), the game will be released in 2009.Details:You will be playing Chris Redfield. Your enemies are not Zombies or Ganados(from Resident Evil
4). They're more like normal poeple(as you've seen in the trailer on E3) and they are also very clever. Umbrella and S.T.A.R.S. won't be there in Resident Evil 5 either.The complete trailer of Resident Evil 5 will be available to download on july 27th on Playstion Network and Xbox Live Marketplace. Read more:details
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More details on GTA 4 2007-07-18 06:01:00 Here are some interesting details
about GTA 4 coming out october 2007:Mobile phones have a important role in the game, you cannot only navigate through the stats with your mobile phone, but you can also start the multiplayer mode with it.Flame-thrower and rocket launcher will be in the game again.You can go to internet cafés to go online.If you sit in the taxi as a customer, the game will be switched over to a First Person-view.Pedestrians are very realistic in the game. Example: When you stare at them, they will ask you what you're staring at??!! :)You can visit the Statue of Happiness, the GTA-variant of the Statue of the Liberty.There will be no 9/11 and Ground Zero in the game.Some of the cars you have to start with "hotwire".The multiplayer mode will contain an online co-op mode, nobody said anything about a split-screen!Police will use K9-units, so cops with dogs!There will be a munition store and the more weapons you buy from Jaccob, the more weapons you will unlock!You can no
Online mode Tekken 6 confirmed 2007-07-18 05:44:00 PS3 version of Virtua Fighter contained no Online mode, this was only the case on Xbox360. But PS3 users now can count on a Online mode for Tekken
6. Namco confirmed this on Playstation Premiere in Tokio, Japan. This will be PS3's first online next-gen fighter, of course exclusive for PS3 users :PTekken 6 will contain a Online combat mode just like Tekken 5 Dark Resurrection Online. We don't know a release date yet, but the arcade version will come out later this year. "We don't have to wait longer a year after that", said Namco Bandai.
PS3 sold out on Walmart 2007-07-18 05:34:00 A week ago American gamers got a price cut of $100 for the PS3. That seems to have a positive effect on the sales of the console, because we noticed that the PS3 has been sold out on Walmart
. They're out of stock :). That's a great sign for me and all the other Playstation 3 fans.
European PSN updates July 26th 2007-07-26 13:30:00 These are the stuff added today to the European
PSN: * Heavenly Sword demo * Medievil PS1 game for PS3/PSP * Crash Bandicoot 2 PS1 game for PS3/PSP * Spyro 2 PS1 game for PS3/PSP * Haze E3 trailer * Assassin's Creed E3 trailer * Resident Evil 5 trailer * Open Season movie trailer * Talladega Nights movie trailerIt looks like things on PS3 update faster and faster, I think PS3 has a great future :) Read more:updates
Gran Turismo 5 Prologue online details 2007-07-26 08:10:00 Here are some details
about the online
mode of Gran Turismo
5 Prologue
:Gran Turismo
5 Prologue will be integrated into Home. You can start the game from Home and there will also be a place called:"Gran Turismo World".When you stat the game you see a screen calle:"My Page" and a friend list. You can customize the background of My Page. There is also a weather forecast, so that your opponents know how the weather is on your location.The will be 2 online modes, one WITH chat and one WITHOUT chat.There will be 40 cars, 4 tracks and 8 different layouts. The tracks from the E3 will be available too.There will be NO downloadable cars and tracks available.You can describe GTP5 as a mix of GT Mode and Arcade Mode. Players will be rewarded when they win a race, this way they can buy new cars. There will be normal and tuned cars available, but you CANNOT tune manually.There can be a maximum of 16 cars racing in offline mode and a maximum of 12 cars in the online mode.You can choose between Normal
Resident Evil 5 full trailer!!! 2007-07-26 07:11:00 Finally we get what we were waiting for, here is the full trailer of Resident
Evil 5:I'm sure this game will be one of the greatest games, I can't wait to play it :p It looks gorgeous :) Read more:Resident Evil
Capcom comes this year with a new title 2007-07-26 06:57:00 Keiji Inafune, working at Capcom
and the man responsible for the games like: Lost Planet: Extreme Condition and the Mega Man series, has let know in an interview with Game Informer that Capcom will announce a new title this year.He didn't want to say what game he was talking about, but what we do know is that it's not a sequel of Okami or Viewtiful Joe. There are absolutely no plans for a new version of these games.We also don't when the game will be announced, but anyway not in Tokyo Game Show. I will keep you informed on this :) Read more:comes
PS3 sells better than Xbox360 again 2007-07-26 06:48:00 The sales of the PS3 has very much increased after the price cut for the 60 GB version. In the first week the PS3 sold already better
than the Xbox
360, this was also the case last week.Last week PS3 has sold 45,101 units and the week before that 41,005 units. PS3 has sold 1,692,699 units in the US, from the moment that it's been released.The US sales:DS 131,851 Wii 95,470 PSP 65,501PS2 60,938 PS3 45,101 X360 32,345 GBA 23,816 GC 1,697 Xbox 26As you can see PS3 is doing very good and taht makes us happy of course :p
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