RUMOR: **Phil Harrisons GDC Keynote details inside** Details from Phil Harrison- Sony Computer Worldwide Studios Keynote at GDC March 7th 2007: Anouncements: Firmware update available on the 8th for North America/Japan and Asia. European PS3's will be preloaded with this latest update. Features of this latest firmware include: More refined PS Store frontend Playstation Network integrity enhanced Wallpapers from pictures Ability to change background colours Sony Connect Store for music and movies added to the PS Store. Hundreds of trailers/full films/song videos and mps3'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 in PS3's in NA and Japan to follow in April. Reason for this is to reduce costs and focus on enhanced opportunities via software. Benefits include the ability to upscale selected PSone/PS2 games to 1080i/720p. Lots of development talk. Release dates for key games. Warhawk in June/July 2007. Heavenly Sword delayed. Killzone and MGS4 in late 2007. New content on PS Store available on the 8th: Tekken 6 trailer Lair demo & 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 trailer Killzone demo for May. More details. Stay tuned on the 7th. source, http://www.neoseeker.com/forums/index.php?fn=view_thread&t=846685 /RUMOR
Leo-j said: If a dvd for a pc game holds what? Crysis at 3000p or something, why in the world cant a blu-ray disc do the same?
ssj12 said: Player specific decoders are nothing more than specialized GPUs. Gran Turismo is the trust driving simulator of them all.
"Why do they call it the xbox 360? Because when you see it, you'll turn 360 degrees and walk away"
