Sony CEO, Sir Howard Stringer, gave his keynote at CES last night in Las Vegas. The speech saw much non-games hoopla about movies (yes, Blu-ray), televisions, and even 3D displays. It featured appearances from Tom Hanks, Usher, John Lasseter (Pixar), a baseballist called Reggie Jackson, and some chap we've absolutely never heard of called Mehmet Oz who talked about belt-sizes and fitness.
Stringer himself has either been working out or working every single hour available to him (and possibly some more created especially by the Sony board) because the man has certainly dropped some pounds and gained some grey since last year's CES (see the composite image to the right). Looks like 2008 has taken its toll on the Welsh wizard one way or another.
On the PlayStation/gaming front, Kaz Hirai was brought front and centre to deliver the following info:
- LittleBigPlanet has sold more than 1.3 million units.
- Sony has partnered with Viacom's MTV Networks for an initial 2,000 hours of MTV show delivered to PS3 and PSP via the Sony Video Delivery Service.
- 2.1 million new PSN accounts were created in December. There are now 17 million.
- 330 million items have been downloaded from the PlayStation Store.
- The PlayStation 4 is due out in 2011 in partnership with Nintendo and SEGA.
No! We made that last one up in order, frankly, to make the keynote a littlebigbit interesting.
Stringer himself has either been working out or working every single hour available to him (and possibly some more created especially by the Sony board) because the man has certainly dropped some pounds and gained some grey since last year's CES (see the composite image to the right). Looks like 2008 has taken its toll on the Welsh wizard one way or another.
On the PlayStation/gaming front, Kaz Hirai was brought front and centre to deliver the following info:
- LittleBigPlanet has sold more than 1.3 million units.
- Sony has partnered with Viacom's MTV Networks for an initial 2,000 hours of MTV show delivered to PS3 and PSP via the Sony Video Delivery Service.
- 2.1 million new PSN accounts were created in December. There are now 17 million.
- 330 million items have been downloaded from the PlayStation Store.
- The PlayStation 4 is due out in 2011 in partnership with Nintendo and SEGA.
No! We made that last one up in order, frankly, to make the keynote a littlebigbit interesting.
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dyne 9 Jan 2009 12:21
1/9
2.1 new PSN accounts - that's not alot is it. :)
Jamief 9 Jan 2009 12:53
2/9
Neither is 330 items downloaded from the Playstation store. Things must be much worse at Sony than first suspected...
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deleted 9 Jan 2009 13:23
3/9
GDC better be awesome!!
fricking nexgen console release dates with full specs for all three companies with the annoucement of the PSP2 and XBOX Handheld and Nintendo giving us at least 10 hardcore games by xmas this year.......
fricking nexgen console release dates with full specs for all three companies with the annoucement of the PSP2 and XBOX Handheld and Nintendo giving us at least 10 hardcore games by xmas this year.......
SuperSaiyan4 9 Jan 2009 13:26
4/9
17million PSN accounts? Doesn't Xbox Live also have 17million members?
I think the difference here is the service and offering of content which Xbox Live is really flourishing in.
I think the difference here is the service and offering of content which Xbox Live is really flourishing in.
Spinface 9 Jan 2009 13:26
5/9
Jamief wrote:
Neither is 330 items downloaded from the Playstation store. Things must be much worse at Sony than first suspected...
Cheers Jamief. Someone's fingers obviously weren't fully functional when that was written... I've amended it.
Mark
Spinface 9 Jan 2009 15:39
6/9
SuperSaiyan4 wrote:
17million PSN accounts? Doesn't Xbox Live also have 17million members?
I think the difference here is the service and offering of content which Xbox Live is really flourishing in.
I think the difference here is the service and offering of content which Xbox Live is really flourishing in.
It does. It's interesting, given the lead the 360 has over the PS3 in terms of installed base. I guess people respond well to the fact PSN's free.
SuperSaiyan4 9 Jan 2009 16:38
7/9
But here is a question of the number of 360's sold did Microsoft only give out live members based on gold accounts only or combined with silver?
I guess its good that PSN is free and you can play online with people for nothing but the service is still not as refined or as user friendly as how Live is built but I know many people will not see that as an argument.
Obviously if Live was free the member count would increase immensly which would of course strain the servers drastically.
Its a shame Microsoft wont put the price of live down though.
I guess its good that PSN is free and you can play online with people for nothing but the service is still not as refined or as user friendly as how Live is built but I know many people will not see that as an argument.
Obviously if Live was free the member count would increase immensly which would of course strain the servers drastically.
Its a shame Microsoft wont put the price of live down though.
OptimusP 12 Jan 2009 15:11
8/9
SuperSaiyan4 wrote:
Its a shame Microsoft wont put the price of live down though.
And they won't for a long time, it's one of their profit ensuring methods against being disrupted by Nintendo.
Maybe with their next console when everyone starts with a new slate again.
Alejandra 15 Jun 2012 04:01
9/9
could you be more of a bitch? No. Cause you already rheaecd the limit of bitching.If you wanna go play Gaylo Reach with your 9 year old friends then fine. But the rest of us dont want to hear your stupidity while we try to embrace our nostalgia of the older playstation systems. Douche