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http://www.computerandvideogames.com....php?id=191641Exclusive: Firmware 2.4's XMB features revealed
Wednesday 25-Jun-2008 12:00 PM View, send, receive messages, manage downloads and play music in-game. It's all here...
CVG has managed to get its grubby hands on the final list of features for the hotly anticipated Firmware 2.4 update, which was yesterday rumoured to be due early next week. But that's not the case we've been told...
Speaking under strict conditions of anonymity, a source has told CVG that Firmware 2.4 is expected to launch in around three weeks' time. A quick look at the diary reveals that E3 is just under three weeks away. It doesn't take a genius to see that Sony's pre-E3 conference would be the perfect time to launch the Sony XMB assault.
Announcing something and making it available at the same time is the way forward, as Microsoft proved by revealing Doom isn't just coming to Xbox Live Arcade, it's on Xbox Live Arcade a few E3s ago. Apple is known for this approach too.
We've also scooped the following list of XMB features that you'll be able to access in-game. Here goes:
- Friend category
- View, send, receive messages
- Manage downloads
- Set the vibration feature of the controller
- Sign in to PlayStation Network
- Register friends
- Manage Bluetooth devices
- Terminate the game
- Music category
- Use the system BGM
- Work the system BGM operation panel
- Settings category
- Assign controllers
- View profiles
- Game category
- Set audio devices
- Use the voice changer
As previously reported the update will also allow you to play back your own tunes in-game from the XMB Music column. It's unclear whether this feature will be compatible with all games or just new titles created with more recent development tools.
The system BGM will offer functions such as Play, Stop, Previous track, Next track, Change repeat mode, Change shuffle mode, Change volume (five levels). When you stop the playback of your tunes, playback of the game music will then begin.
Sony has yet to confirm or deny any of this and won't comment on rumour and speculation. If you ask us though, this is bang on the money. Not long to wait and see...
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http://scrawlfx.com/2008/06/free-mid...-to-developersFree Middleware to Cut PS3 Load Times Offered to Developers
Posted on June 25, 2008 12:30 am by Sal | 555 views
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Well, after this there really should be no need for required game installations on the PLAYSTATION 3.
CRI Middleware Co. has announced today that their middleware "File Majik Pro for PlayStation 3" will be offered to PLAYSTATION 3 develoopers for free starting June 2008 and lasting until March 2010.
What File Majik Pro does is utilizes CRI Middleware's own data compression and expansion algorithms, and optimizes the file arrangement of the game data to cut down the load time for games to less than half of it's original load time.
The simple formula is Load Time = Read Time + Seek Time. This middlware cuts down the Read Time by the compressed data and the ability to unzippigng them along side with the read time simultaneously; by re-arranging the data on disk in the order which they are needed will cut down the Seek Time. Developers will also be able to fit even more on the Blu-Ray due to the data compression.
It cuts down the PLAYSTATION 3's average 22 second load time to 9 seconds by reading 200MB off the Blu-Ray.
www.kotaku.comRumor Sony Talkin' God of War III At E3
What we know: Last year, Sony officially said God of War III was for the PS3. Back in February of this year, a Sony teaser ad said God of War III was "coming soon." A job announcement popped up in April was seeking an online game programmer for the team that created God of War and God of War II. According to a post on game site Eurogamer, Sony will be announcing God of War III for the PS3 at E3. This s unconfirmed, but makes sense! Surely, Sony will want a big AAA exclusive to face off with Gears of War 2 this holiday season. But just because something makes sense doesn't mean it's true.
2.4
According to this NeoGaf post, Sony will release first official screens of PSN Trophies, profiles and in-game XMB next Monday.
The post also says that a video walkthrough of new PSN features it to be released on the same day.
Behind the scenes chatter in the past day has all pointed to official activity surrounding Firmware 2.4 next week. We can but hope.
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www.kotaku.comAssassin's Creed Ubisoft Already Talking Assassin's Creed 2 Hype
Assassin's Creed had a lot of hype. Assassin's Creed 2 will have more. Just listen to Ubisoft US boss Laurent Detoc go on about the inevitable sequel:
We just did Assassin's and are sitting on top of the world, but we have to come back to reality very quickly because you're only as good as your last product... Don't drink the Kool-Aid too much; we're going have to defend our position... When we bring it [Assassin's Creed] back, there will be more anticipation for it.Not only hype, but also look forward to Ubisoft explain how the game play is no longer repetitive and dull. We eagerly anticipate that.
www.kotaku.comFirst Shots Of PS3 Video Download Service, Due In "Summer 2008"
Sony held a little mid-term corporate strategy meeting today in Japan. On the menu? All kinds of Sony stuff, but of particular interest to us, all kinds of PlayStation-related stuff. First up? These shots of the PS3's upcoming video download service, which formed part of a presentation by Kaz Hirai. As you can see, it's largely identical to the current PlayStation Store interface, though it's nice seeing the whole thing move out of the "will be here sometime" stage and into what's surely the "will be here soon" stage. But how soon?
Part of Sony boss Howard Stringer's presentation touches on the company's "video service rollout strategy", whereby they're looking at getting video download services running on not just the PS3, but the PSP, laptops, phones and beyond. That presentation has, as you can see, the PS3 and PSP tentatively scheduled to see the service in "Summer 2008". Expect more info at E3.
www.kotaku.comTen Thing Sony Plans For 2008 Financial Profit
Sony hasn't given up on making money. No way, no how. This financial year it even has a plan for achieving profitability. Phew! Kaz Hirai explained all at Sony's corporate strategy meeting today, laying out the game plan:
• Accelerating cost down effortsSounds like there will be some belt-tightening over at Sony Computer Entertainment. Hit the jump for the rest of the plan:
Chip shrink
Reducing the number of components
• Strengthening the management
Organizational Review
Further reductions in SGA [Eds Note: Sales, General and Administration]
• Introducing more new and exciting titles
• Enriching non-game content and services
• Enhancing PlayStation Network
• Expanding the market by further increasing the hardware installed base
Achieve Profitability in FY08
www.kotaku.comJust How Many PLAYSTATION Network Registrants Are There?
In today's Sony Computer Entertainment strategy meeting, Kaz Hirai also announced thrilling info about the PLAYSTATION Network. Factoids include:
Cumulative Number of Registrants:Simply fascinating. But 17 million single layer DVDs? How many Blu-ray Discs is that exactly? More data after the jump.
Over 9.8 million accounts worldwide
Distributed Data Volume:
Approx. 86 peta bytes
(equivalent to 17 million single layer DVDs)
Registrants: approx. 9.8 million
Registration rate: 45 percent
Total downloads: 170 million
Data volume: 86 peta bytes
Data Volume in Single layer DVD: 17 million units
as of 2008/6/24
Sony Details New Video System
June 26, 2008 - Sony held a group business briefing in Tokyo today to share its plans for 2008 to 2010. Taking up a good chunk of that time was Sony Computer Entertainment president Kaz Hirai, who introduced new non-game initiatives for the PlayStation brand.
The company's long awaited video on demand service will target PlayStation 3 and PSP, adding movies and television programs to the PlayStation Network on top of the current game content. Videos will be sold through a video store on the network and will be viewable both in download and streaming form.
America will get the first shot at the video service this summer. The program will then continue on to Japan and Europe.
While further details will be announced at E3 next month, sample images of the video store shown at the press conference resembled the current PlayStation Store, right down to windowed video previews of content. The sample store image had buttons allowing the user to toggle between video store and game store, suggesting that PS3 users will have to access just one main shop interface to get all their downloadable content.
Categories of video content in the sample images included "New Arrivals," "Movies," "Television," "Anime," "HD Only," "Rentals," "Purchase", and "Top Downloads." The sample images also listed pricing for a couple of titles: a Ghost Rider rental in HD at $5.99 and a Ghost Rider purchase copy in SD at $12.99. These prices are presumably unofficial.
PlayStation products are just the start for Sony's video plans. By 2010, Sony plans on expanding the download service to televisions, PCs, and mobile sets.
In addition to the new video service, Sony also unveiled a brand new initiative: Life with PlayStation. This new program will offer real time news updates and weather to PlayStation 3 users via an interactive globe interface. The globe interface displays recreations of the weather and shows headlines as you move to different locals. The headlines can be clicked on to open up more details in a browser window. Users can play music off their PS3 in the background as they use this service.
Future plans for the Life with PlayStation service could go beyond just the globe. Hirai mentioned the possibility of introducing a timeline interface for letting PS3 owners sort and view their photographs chronologically.
Sony also addressed the PlayStation Portable's multimedia functionality today. Sony will be expanding the portable's network functionality, and will at long last offer direct connection to the PlayStation Store some time this fiscal year.
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PS3 Graphics Chip Goes 65nm this Fall
Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Kaz Hirai has confirmed that PS3 Cell processors manufactured since last holiday use the more efficient 65nm technology, while smaller RSX chips are due in the fall.
Hirai said during a Thursday PlayStation business briefing that Sony has been cutting PS3 manufacturing costs by reducing the number of components and decreasing the size of chips.
"The Cell and RSX used in PS3s at launch were manufactured using a 90nm process technology. And now all PS3 Cells have shifted to 65nm process technology since last holiday season," he said.
The smaller chip technology runs more efficiently and costs less to produce.
While the improved Cell is in circulation, the RSX graphics chip, created in tandem with Nvidia, still uses 90nm technology.
But a more efficient RSX will be in PS3s shortly, Hirai says. "As for RSX, 65nm process technology has begun this year already, and will be ready for installment in autumn."
http://www.psu.com/Hirai--+quot;True...0004089-p0.phpHirai: "True generation" quality only available on PS3
Posted on June 27th, 2008 at 05:32 EDT
Sony Computer Entertainment President Kazuo Hirai has stated that the PlayStation 3 is the only system capable of delivering a “true generation” quality gaming experience.
Speaking during the companys Business Review in Tokyo yesterday, Hirai commented, “As PlayStation 3 approaches the second anniversary of its release, the release of PS3 software titles with the true generation quality only available on PS3 is accelerating.”
Hirai attributed the machines difficult start to the fact Sony originally marketed the console as a multimedia device, noting that things have picked up since it repositioned the PS3 as a videogames console.
"However, by refocusing the positioning of PS3 first and foremost as a gaming platform, we were able to bring an attractive title lineup and achieve a sufficient number of PS3 sales as expected in the fiscal year 2007 holiday season," he added.
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Sony announces Playstation Edge?
According to this Neo Gaf post, Sony has issued a press release detailing a new add-on to the Playstation Network called Playstation Edge.
“PlayStation Edge comes with a seamless integration into the already widely popular PlayStation Network® and will allow PlayStation®3 owners to use their trophies earned to receive free gifts and discounts on PlayStation Network by going to the PlayStation EDGE panel located in the PlayStation Store,” says the supposed release.
“PlayStation EDGE is scheduled to be launched in North America at the end of July 2008, followed by the Japanese and European launches in the fall of 2008.”
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http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/0...ystation-edge/
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Playstation Edge news is Fake
TalkPlayStation.com writes: "Ok so it got us, we should have been more careful. The news we posted before regarding something called Playstation Edge is fake.
We first saw the news over at Neogaf and Videogaming247.com and decided to post about it. Our friends over at TheSixthAxis have pointed it out that this particular news is fake."
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