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PS Move Launch Date and Price Announced, Portal 2 For the PS3

Posted by Soulskill on from the beating-ms-at-the-price-game dept.

Sony took the stage for the last major keynote of E3 this afternoon, splitting their attention evenly between hardware improvements and new games. First, they talked about 3D technology — Sony plans to try driving 3D adoption in a similar way to what they did with Blu-ray, with 20 titles planned for March 2011 or earlier. Headlining those will be Killzone 3 (coming February 2011), Gran Turismo 5 (coming November 2nd), Tron Evolution, Mortal Kombat, and Crysis 2. Sony also released launch details for their PS Move motion control system. It will be released on September 19th in the US, the motion controller will cost $50, and the navigation controller will cost $30. Several games will get retroactive Move support, such as Resident Evil 5, Heavy Rain, and Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11. An RPG called Sorcery was demonstrated; your character has a wand that's very similar to the controller, and you throw arcane bolts or draw walls of fire just as you'd expect. Read on for more about Sony's E3 announcements.

Sony also unveiled a new campaign for the PSP, apparently designed to compete with phone games. Upcoming titles include Metal Gear Solid: Peacewalkers, Invizimals (an augmented reality game that makes use of the camera), God of War: Ghost of Sparta, and Kingdom Hearts. Moving back to the PS3, they gave a presentation on LittleBigPlanet 2, emphasizing how it is a platform for all kinds of games. Users will be able to create almost any type of game within LBP 2 — FPS, RTS, RPG, racing, space shooters, etc. They showed several brief demonstrations created in a short period of time, and it appears to be a very robust set of tools.

Next, Sony announced a long-rumored subscription service for the PlayStation Network called PlayStation Plus. It's intended to provide additional services to gamers for $50 a year. Existing PSN features won't change, and PSPlus will provide access to betas, themes, discounts at the Store, and other services. The crowd wasn't particularly pleased at this, and Sony quickly moved on to upcoming games. Valve's Gabe Newell came out on stage and announced that Portal 2 will be coming to the PS3, apparently with some limited Steam Cloud integration. We also got presentations on Dead Space 2 and a new Twisted Metal game planned for 2011

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  1. Re:Move support in Portal 2. by Lunix+Nutcase · · Score: 0, Troll

    So basically you want to hold a plastic phallus in your hand?

  2. Other OS feature by robbadler · · Score: 1, Troll

    I suppose it is too much to hope that Sony would say something about this sore subject at a press conference. I wonder if anyone is going to try and bring it up at E3...

  3. Burn your PS2 games by DeadJesusRodeo · · Score: 0, Troll

    Still ignoring my stack of PS2 titles? Watch me ignore your PS3 - at least until Grand Theft Auto Vice City comes out for it - which means, never.

    1. Re:Burn your PS2 games by DeadJesusRodeo · · Score: 0, Troll

      Old PS2 stopped working. Would like to buy a new PS that doesn't fuck around with software vs hardware emu vs how many games work on either vs overpay at gamestop for a fucking console that's 4 years old or screw around with fags on ebay.

      You know - actions people who aren't nerds don't do - or who have time and jobs and - heaven forbid, a life.

      Research for a game system. What a product - a game system I have to research before buying. Wow - fuck you loser corporate apologist scum. Fuck off and die.

    2. Re:Burn your PS2 games by DeadJesusRodeo · · Score: 0, Troll

      Hey Professor don't-get-it, I'd like to buy a system that has backwards compatibility rather than 12 skus that can't make up their mind what the fuck the product is.

      You fail like Sony.