Sony's Meeting Reveals Brand Futures

Posted by Zonk on Thursday July 21, 2005 @08:58PM from the they're-still-going-to-make-games dept.

1up.com has coverage of the meeting held yesterday in which Sony let more details slip on the future of the PSP, plans for the PS3, and the state of the Playstation 2. From the PS3 update: "One big piece of news is that Sony will be including both Havoc Complete and AEGIA, two physics modeling solutions, with the PlayStation 3 SDK. Even more importantly, Sony themselves will be providing 'frontline support' for Japanese developers. This should be a big boon to next generation development, as a lack of Japanese language documentation and support has been one of the major hurdles for Japanese developers to adopt middleware solutions."

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Re:Why the XBOX 360 will win by Keeper · 2005-07-21 21:50 · Score: 2, Informative

Microsoft shipped the beta dev kits out about a month after E3, and apparently one kid managed to get his hands on a near final xbox 360 prototype that his dad brought home (http://www.360hacker.net/articles/07-18-2005/firs t-xbox-360-seen-in-the-wild/).

Sony has shipped out alpha dev kits as well, though what is in them at this point can't really be determined (not that it would matter; alpha dev kits, unlike beta dev kits, aren't representative of what you'll find in the final product). They are definately huge (http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000747047835/) though ...