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Sony's Meeting Reveals Brand Futures
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."
With Sony extending and contributing to OpenGL for the PS3, one can only speculate upon the impact that they will have on Linux (and Mac!) gaming. Historically, DirectX has always been ahead of OpenGL, but with Sony siding with open source, maybe things will even up. We may have a serious graphics API war approaching.
Life is offtopic.
According to heise.de:
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-new PSP firmware 2.0 on July 27th
-including a webbrowser, HTML 4.01 compatible, flash not yet supported, for surfing over WLAN
-support of WPA security
-photo browser now supports tiff, gif, png & bmp in addition to jpg
-support of AAC and WAV in addition to MP3
-videos from memory stick now also in H.264 encoded format in addition to MPEG4 (previously only from UMD)
-"Personal TV": streaming of videos, with ability to save them on the memory stick, support of 4:3 screen format
-of course, "better" security against hacks - we'll see how long this lasts
Do not be alarmed. This is only a test.
"From what I hear, the PS2 was very hard to develop for, leading to a lot of frustration getting the most out of the system, a big part of which was middleware inadequacy."
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Wow, did you like read that on teamxbox?
So, let me get this straight, Sony who has essentially every console dev house and publisher on the planet on board filling stores with games for the PS2 had a problem with 'developer support'
Do you have any idea what a dunce that makes you sound like?
"The faster Sony gets the developers to realize the full power of the system (especially important with a new architecture of the Cell) the faster they can claim technological victory."
http://forum.gaming-age.com/showthread.php?t=5614
Sony wins.
Funny how MS is only a few months away from shipping the 360 and the aren't showing any real footage of games? The 360 is a nightmare to code for. Developers are struggling to get something out the door by November. Being stuck with DirectX on a multi-core machine is like trying to run a race with cement boots.