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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. Sony and OpenGL by sn0wman3030 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

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  2. PSP Goes Multimedia News by MadMoses · · Score: 4, Interesting

    According to heise.de:

    -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 ;)

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