Sony rounded out the Big Three E3 Press Conferences and delivered lots of excited news for PlayStation gamers despite rampant leaks leading up to E3. All three companies had a very strong showing, so it seems that gamers of all platforms will have a lot to look forward to. Keep reading to find out all the goodies from Sony's briefing...
Sony Shows Off Motion Wands
That's right, all three companies are throwing their cards at this new-fangled super waggle. Nintendo started it all with the Wiimote, and now they are enhancing their game with MotionPlus. Microsoft debuted their new Natal technology at their own press briefing one day before the Sony conference. Sony of course had their own brand of motion control in SIXAXIS... which pretty much crashed and burned. So how do they respond? Their new MotionPlus-esque wands. The only problem is that they had to follow hot on the heels of the incredibly revolutionary Natal demo, which heavily diluted this new tech and rendered it kind of moot since MotionPlus will be doing the exact same stuff in a couple weeks. The wands (my term, by the way, not the official name) are scheduled to hit the market in Spring 2010 though, most likely ahead of Natal.
Big Game Reveals
God of War 3, the Rockstar-exclusive Agent, Team ICO's The Last Guardian, Gran Turismo 5 (now featuring NASCAR and World Rally), the first appearance in 4 years of Gran Turismo Mobile, the 256-player MAG, the LittleBIGPlanet-esque Mod Nation Racers, Resident Evil Portable for PSP, Final Fantasy VII PSOne classic on PSN as we speak, Kojima-directed PSP sequel to MGS3 in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, and a bombshell in the "exclusive" Final Fantasy XIV Online MMO (Square Enix later said a 360 port is being considered). There is a hell of a lot here.
PSP Go finally official
Despite rampant leaks finally culminating in a leaked episode of the Sony-produced Qore that fully featured the new device, Sony finally officially announced the next iteration of the PSP. At least they had a sense of humor about it, with Jack Tretton calling it "the world kept secret of E3" when he introduced it. Pretty much everything previously-reported over the weekend is true: new sliding screen, 16GB solid state memory, launching in fall for $249.99. Wait, is that the price of a Wii? And $50 more than the Xbox 360 Arcade? And $100 more than the Nintendo DSi? Hmm.... Also, it will co-exist on store shelves with the current PSP-3000 and feature an extensive digital store of catalog titles. Sony is also working on a way for people who want to upgrade to swap their UMD games for digital copies... but no details on that quite yet.
Notable No-Shows
That rumored slim PS3? Absent. It's just too early for that. Also, where was Metal Gear Solid Rising? This was later confirmed to be cross-platform after all, but its notable absence at Sony's conference may signal a shift in platform focus. Other than that, not much was left out... though notably, the original PSOne Metal Gear Solid will be released on PlayStation Network June 18.
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