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Sony's Tokyo Games Show Keynote Highlights

Posted by Zonk on from the lots-of-news-little-time dept.

There was lots of little announcements over the course of Sony's TGS keynote ... but nothing earth shattering. For example, the only time a price drop was mentioned was to say there wouldn't be one soon. They're going to be expanding on the remote play capabilities of the PS3, something they've discussed previously. They did confirm the rumble controller, something the blogs were carrying yesterday. They're also going to delay the rollout of Home until next year, to give it a nice long Beta test period. You could say the 'big news' from their keynote was that they plan to work more closely with developers. Woo. "Hirai pointed to Crisis Core, a Square Enix collaboration on the PSP, as a recent example. 'Some of these collaborative endeavors are going on behind the scenes already,' Hirai said, 'largely in terms of development assistance courtesy of Sony Worldwide Studios. Sony is also listening to the opinions of developers whose games are already out.'" Of course, 'work more closely' may be a euphemism for 'buy out third parties'; the company just announced they've acquired the developer of MotorStorm . For further details, both 1up and Kotaku have liveblogs of the event.

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  1. Denial is, in fact, just a river in Egypt. by seebs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They denied the last price cut, too. Then, when the circuit city ads got leaked, they pressured CC to fire the employee who leaked them.

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    1. Re:Denial is, in fact, just a river in Egypt. by gasaraki · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Only makes sense. Speculation about a price cut means more people hanging out for it and not buying more profitable (for Sony) PS3s today.

    2. Re:Denial is, in fact, just a river in Egypt. by Aladrin · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Indeed. Who believes anything Sony says now? Or any other manufacturer or developer, even. We've been told so many lies in the last 3 months that I can't count them all. Sony is STILL lying about why they didn't have rumble in the sixaxis.

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    3. Re:Denial is, in fact, just a river in Egypt. by This_Is_My_Happening · · Score: 2, Informative

      Well the (very light on details) blurb linked to in the summary does say "Sony has failed to confirm a price drop", and that they are committed to focus on Software rather than price for the time being. That's not exactly the same as saying there will not be a price drop. The "there wouldn't be one soon" statement in the Summary seems more like Zonk-spin than actual reporting.

      That said, no one in their right mind should trust any company to be telling the the truth when their bottom line is at stake, Sony or otherwise.

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  2. So does the Dualshock 3.... by fistfullast33l · · Score: 2, Interesting

    have the SIXAXIS motion-sensing capabilities as well? I can't seem to find that mentioned anywhere.

    1. Re:So does the Dualshock 3.... by kosanovich · · Score: 4, Informative

      Yes it does have the motion sensing. If you read the keynote, when Kaz announced it he started off talking about how originally they thought there would be technical issues with having rumble and motion sensing but they have overcome those issues and have both in the new controller.

  3. Why is everyone so sure of a price drop? by 7Prime · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm inclined to believe Sony at this point, not because I trust them, but because I don't think a price drop is in their best interest. They're already losing some $300 per unit, why lose another $100, when they can claim pack-in bundles and shit like that?

    There's some truth to the fact that, at $600, they're targeting people of whom money is not an object, so lowering it $100 isn't going to do much more than net them $100 less on every unit.

    They've never hinted at a price drop, and I have yet to see a good reason besides a subjective, uninformed, "because they should."

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  4. Dual Shock 3 has both Rumble and Motion.. Amazing. by trdrstv · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes it does have the motion sensing. If you read the keynote, when Kaz announced it he started off talking about how originally they thought there would be technical issues with having rumble and motion sensing but they have overcome those issues and have both in the new controller.

    Apparently Kaz isn' a fan of the WarioWare Series, since Nintendo was able to do both in 2003 (when the game shipped in Japan). Perhaps he wasn't lying, and it had nothing to with Legal issues, maybe Nintendo has better engineers than Sony.