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Sony's Meeting Reveals Brand Futures

Posted by Zonk on 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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  1. Re:Why the XBOX 360 will win by rohlfinator · · Score: 0, Troll

    "After all, they have shown nothing of the Revolution, they have published no specs, they have not released the final design of the console, so why would they be talking about it besides hype? They have shown an empty box and said they're focusing on the games. That's their form of hype."

    By that definition, any next-gen related talk is hype. This is basically the extent of Nintendo's "hype":
    * The Revolution will be able to download older games. This is most likely true. * The Revolution will have a unique new controller. This is also probably true. * Nintendo is working on Smash Bros, Zelda, Animal Crossing, Mario, and some new franchises for the Revolution. I think that's probably true. * They showed a mock-up of the console, which they explicitly said may or may not be the final design.

    No flaunting numbers, no comparisons to the capabilities of the human brain, no mocked-up tech demos that were proven to be FMVs. Nintendo hasn't claimed anything that they can't follow up on. Their entire stance on the Revolution is to not announce anything that's not finalized. Sony has already dropped features from the PS3 and claimed absurd things like "HD-aging" to convert standard video to HD-quality.

    Microsoft has done a better job, showing mainly in-game footage and having playable games. We'll see how their claims hold up, but at least their specs seem reasonable. Microsoft and Nintendo are marketing; Sony is hyping.