Exciting news for PS3 owners on 3/7

[Dacalo]

Monday 5-Mar-2007 11:48 PM PlayStation Lifestyle, download movies and Killzone trailer...
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Internet hoodlums strike again - Sony Worldwide Studio boss Phil Harrison's GDC keynote has seemingly been leaked on to the internet, as reported by US site Game Drift.

According to Game Drift, Sony's announcements on Wednesday will include plans for a You Tube/My Space-esque 'PlayStation Lifestyle' and the arrival of the Sony Connect Store for full movie/music downloads on PS3.

Apparently Mr. Harrison will also announce the arrival of a Killzone PS3 trailer on the PlayStation Network this week, followed by a demo in May to combat the Halo 3 mutiplayer beta.

Also claimed are North American and Japanese PS3 respecs to remove the PS2 Emotion Engine chip, just like the European console. This would shift PS3 backwards computability totally into the emulation mold, and presumably cause import models to set eBay on fire.

Phil Harrison is due to take the podium on Wednesday. Here is the supposedly leaked keynote in full:

March 8th is the big firmware update. It includes
More refined PS Store frontend
PlayStation Network "integrity enhanced"
Wallpapers from pictures
Ability to change background colors
Sony Connect Store for music and movies added to the PS Store. Hundreds of trailers/full films/songs
Videos and mp3's available for download.
Playstation Card option in PS Store enabled.
Playstation Lifestyle- Similar to my space/youtube. User generated content and experiences are the key.
+ more.
Removal of Emotion Engine chips will come stateside and to Japan in April. Upscales certain PS-One and PS2 games to 720p/1080i.
Game announcements: Warhawk in June/July, Heavenly Sword delayed, Killzone 2 and Metal Gear Solid 4 in late 2007.
New PS-Store stuff being added on the 8th include:
Tekken 6 trailer
Lair demo & (new?) trailer
Rainbow Six Vegas demo
EA: Skate trailer
Battlefield Bad Company trailer
Warhawk demo
Virtua Fighter 5 demo
Virtua Tennis 3 demo & trailer
GRAW 2: trailer
Mortal Kombat 2 game
Killzone 2 trailer... demo to come in May"

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[BDawg]

Hmmm... will PS3 games scale to 1080i also?

 

[SoulAssassin]

rumble?

 

[shortylickens]

Topic Title: Exciting news for PS3 owners on 3/7
Topic Summary: Rumors abound!
First thing on my mind: Full refunds!


But seriously, it seems like the "big news" here is that the PS3 will finally be getting the features and software Sony has been bragging about for a long time.
In other words, some massively overdue stuff that fans have been itching for.

 

[DannyLove]

i'm still waiting for lower prices, and FF13