Almost 70m PlayStation Network accounts have been registered worldwide since the service launched. Speaking at the PSP2 reveal press conference this morning, SCE president and CEO Kaz Hirai said that over 69m accounts had been opened before January 25th. He also revealed that over 80 per cent of all PS3s are connected to the internet, as reported by Eurogamer. “PS3 has won its place as.
Sony says the battery life of its next portable game machine will be on par with Nintendo 3DS. Next Generation Portable, which Sony announced on Thursday, will feature 4 to 5 hours of battery life, according to a Eurogamer source. This would put it on the same playing field as 3DS, which lasts 3-5 hours depending on the brightness and 3-D settings. Sony Europe CEO Andrew House, speaking.
Sony’s NGP will cost somewhere between “affordable” and $599, according to PlayStation execs. The latest SCE honcho to comment on the handheld’s potential price point is Shu Yoshida, president of worldwide studios. “From the very beginning of the project – since 2008 – pricing was one of the considerations that we had,” he told Game Informer. “Hopefully.
Beyond the handful of games revealed onstage during last night’s big Sony event, an enormous list of developers and publishers currently working on games for this holiday’s Sony NGP has surfaced. Game Informer posted up the entire list broken down by region, which features big names like Activision, Ubisoft, 2K Games, Square Enix, and Capcom. Perhaps more notable than the big.
Sony has appended a “Holiday 2011″ release date to its next-generation portable system (NGP), but hasn’t offered a timetable for individual regions. Will it be a worldwide launch? Sony Computer Entertainment America CEO Jack Tretton didn’t provide an answer in his interview with Engadget, opting to pin Sony’s strategy on providence. “I know that’s.
Everyone is going crazy for the Sony NGP at the moment, but this might be dampened a bit by the news that there will be multiple versions of the console, and that 3G won’t be standard. Much like the Xbox 360 and PS3 in its earlier life-cycle, there will be different models, all with different functionality. All devices will have Wi-Fi, much like the PSP, but not all of them will have.
Sony has released Firmware Update 3.56 which included no usage to PlayStation 3 owners other than to effectively stop jailbroken PS3′s from accessing the PlayStation Network. The security patch is likely the first in a long line of patches that Sony will need issue to combat the recent compromise of security on the platform. A brighter note for PS3 players that have been experiencing.
Sony has won its request for a temporary restraining order in its PS3 jailbreak case against Geohot and fail0verflow, despite a jurisdictional technicality. At the same time, the judge at the US District Court for the Northern District of California has allowed Sony to keep the lawsuit in San Francisco. The restraining order forbids the jailbreak team from distributing or linking the jailbreak.
Mass Effect 2 is all about protecting the galaxy from hostile aliens, but some PS3 owners are finding that the galaxy doesn’t want to be protected, and is sabotaging their efforts by corrupting their save files. Players have reported losing as many as forty hours of gameplay in the blink of an eye. According to posters on the BioWare forums, the game will lock up, forcing the player.
The state of Black Ops on PS3 is a bit of an embarrassment for developer Treyarch. Players are calling out for multiple fixes and even started a petition that got over 8,000 signatures demanding refunds. Yesterday Treyarch released the latest patch for the game: v1.06 which is meant to fix freezing issues, improve reliability when playing online, and fix a long list of other bugs. But.
