TAG | E3 08: Sony wows with 256 player online game |
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| by Mike Bantick | |
| Wednesday, 16 July 2008 | |
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Page 1 of 2 Highlights of the keynote included: A repriced 80GB PS3, replacing the US$399.99 40GB model (will this flow onto other markets, wait and see). This expanded capacity will be handy as Sony up the ante in the download content market. Following on from the Netflix partnership with Microsoft for Xbox 360 movie on demand content, Sony’s riposte included a standard and high definition download service available from today. Movies and television content from Sony pictures, along with partners Fox, MGM, Lionsgate, Warner, Disney, Paramount, Turner and Funamnation can be grabbed and viewed (after the first minute the download begins) on PS3 and/or PSP. [Australian readers will need to sit on their thumbs until at least next year for this service – sigh]. On the game front, developer Insomniac has been hard at work, Resistance: Fall of Man 2 was given a spectacular work out, with a demonstration of a suitably sized Leviathan taking out 1953 Chicago buildings. Ratchet and Clank: Future Quest for Booty will be a cutdown version of Tools of Destruction available from the PlayStation Network for US$14.99. Sony is ramping up the PSN downloads with Pixel Junk Eden, Pain Amusement Park, Ragdoll Kung Fu: Fists of Plastic and Crash Commando amongst the service line up. Tretton mentioned that Sony will be looking for a single signon approach across PS3, PSP and PC and introduced the ‘Life with PlayStation” service including webcam feeds, live weather and News. But no News on a Home release date yet. |
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