Last holiday season Sony’s PS3 console faced its fair share of challenges. Sony’s latest hope in the console race is the upcoming version of the console that sheds some weight to get the price level of its competitors. Even at the $600 price tag Sony’s next gen console could have sold like hot cakes if only it had console selling games like Halo 3 at the launch. It had a great Blu-ray disc player, basically it was a powerhouse of a system but without games PS3 is just a playboy’s fantasy.
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For the past few days rumor mills were crunching the possibility of a €399(Euro not Dollar) PS3. Today Sony officially at London confirms this in fact is true. Its will be launched throughout all the SCEE territories” on October 10th for €399 ($565).
But before you gets hands on one of these mind it only comes with just a pair of USB 2.0 ports rather than the usual four, no multi-memory card port and it no longer backward compatible with the PlayStation 2 titles.
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Kaz Hirai finally has some good news for the PS3 fans at the Tokyo Game Show 2007. The DualShock 3, SIXAXIS with rumble is official. Already few big names including Metal Gear Solid 4, are in development to use the rumble facility and existing games can be updated with the rumble. Atlast… we really missed the rumble feature. Sony has been constantly been blaming technical difficulty as the main reason behind the late arrival of the DualShock 3, but you can’t keep the Immersion lawsuit out of the story no matter how much Sony tries to convince us. No word on the price for the DualShock 3 but here is the official list of games that will use the DualShock 3 or get a software update to work with it.
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Opposable Thumbs are reporting the possibility of two new PS3 SKUs this holiday season. Rumor has it that Sony might clamp down the 80GB PS3 to $499.99, But the biggest buzz is with the 40GB Ps3 that expected to retail at $399. Another rumor says the SKUs might pack in a copy of SpiderMan 3 on Blu-Ray. Still hot in the news is the PlayStation 2 that might get a $99 drop as it still adds in huge for Sony’s bottomline. Its been already proven how a $100 (PS3 60GB) price drop can clean the shelfs faster then you can say “OMG”. At upcoming Tokyo Game Show, which commences from September 20th through 23rd, Sony may infact reveals some details.
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Sony just announced PlayTV, a combined TV tuner and PVR for the Playstation (more like TiVo) and will be available in UK, France, Italy, Germany and Spain as early as 2008 while the other regions following following suit after sometime. The PVR cum tuner turns the already feature rich PS3 into a pure home entertainment system.
The introduction of PlayTV really will extend the already broad entertainment credentials of PS3, and makes it an exceptionally attractive proposition for the whole family,†said David Reeves, President of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. PS3 already provides High Definition gaming, Blu-ray Disc movies, music, video, photo album, web browsing and PLAYSTATION Network support. With the introduction of PlayTV state of the art TV tuner and PVR functionality, PS3 is now the best choice of home entertainment hub for the whole family.
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The folks from IGN were lucky enough to get their hands on
the beta version of “Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare”
Although the beta version was for Xbox 360, they were assured
that all three versions (PC, PS3 & Xbox 360) will have identical
Multiplayer Experience.
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 Following up the leaked “Wal-Mart” ad on a 50$ price drop on the Xbox 360, CheapyD owner of CheapAssGamer, is more then convinced that the $50 price cut for the Xbox 360 is due this August. The CAG crew dug up some evidence this Toys R Us ad that will air the week beginning Sunday, Aug. 12. Thou the image is blurry UgamerX tried his hard to give a little detail . You can see for sure its not any photoshoping. Earlier this month, another member at CAG named Speedy expose the price drop for the PS3. So we can just hold on and wait till next month till this ads air.
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