Rumour: PS3 Video-On-Demand And Price Cut For Leipzig?
Possible Freeview PS3 TV and Price Cut mooted, plus full Leipzig speaker line-up revealed
Sony is apparently set to rock this years Leipzig Games Convention next month with a number of major PS3 announcements including the launch of PS3s video-on-demand services and Freeview TV features.
According to predictions from trade mag MCVs, Stuart Dinsey there is also good reason to believe that the widely mooted PS3 price-cut will come in September (with a Leipzig announcement).
We prefer to make our big statements in Leipzig, it suits us much better, Reeves told the magazine, adding, There will be absolute fireworks at peak, that I can promise you. We will be doing things no-one has seen yet for both PS3 and PSP.
SPOnG spoke with a SCEE representative earlier today, who was unable to comment on MCV's Leipzig predictions. We will bring you further news on this as soon as we receive any official word from Sony.
Meanwhile, you can read SPOnGs full and frank post-E3 interview with Sonys David Reeves right here.
Meanwhile, the organisers of the Leipzig GC Developers' Conference have unveiled the following list of speakers set to appear at this year's event, which runs from August 20 22, with more keynotes and panel discussions are set to be announced over the coming weeks:
Julian Eggebrecht (USA)
Peter Molyneux (UK)
Michael Capps, Epic Games (USA)
Mark Rein, Epic Games (USA)
Mark Morris, Introversion Software (UK)
Ken Ralston, Big Huge Games (USA)
Cathy Campos, Panache (UK)
Doug Whatley, Break Away (USA)
Michael Lewis, Cryptic Studios (USA)
George Bain (UK)
Christopher Schmitz, 10Tacle Studios (Germany)
Dr. Michael Wimmer, The University of Vienna (Austria
Alexander Fernαndez, Streamline Studios (The Netherlands)
Amir Taaki, Crystalspace (Finland)
Jeff Strain, ArenaNet (USA)
Vlad Ihora, Telia Sonora (Sweden)
Barbara Lippe, Avaloop (Austria)
Pamela Kato, The GamerX (USA)
Uwe Nikl, Level 3 (UK)
Matt Firor, Ultra Mega Games (USA)
Konstantin Ewald, Osborne Clark (Germany)
John Smedley, Sony Online Entertainment (USA)
Cindy Armstrong, Webzen (USA)
Jennifer MacLean, Comcast Interactive Media (USA)
Chris Mottes, Deadline Games (Denmark)
Jeff Hickman, EA Mythic (USA)
Jeffrey Steefel, Turbine, Inc. (USA)
Don Daglow, Stormfront Studios (USA)
Jason Manley, Massive Black (USA)
Patric Palm, Hansoft (Sweden)
Source: MCV
According to predictions from trade mag MCVs, Stuart Dinsey there is also good reason to believe that the widely mooted PS3 price-cut will come in September (with a Leipzig announcement).
We prefer to make our big statements in Leipzig, it suits us much better, Reeves told the magazine, adding, There will be absolute fireworks at peak, that I can promise you. We will be doing things no-one has seen yet for both PS3 and PSP.
SPOnG spoke with a SCEE representative earlier today, who was unable to comment on MCV's Leipzig predictions. We will bring you further news on this as soon as we receive any official word from Sony.
Meanwhile, you can read SPOnGs full and frank post-E3 interview with Sonys David Reeves right here.
Meanwhile, the organisers of the Leipzig GC Developers' Conference have unveiled the following list of speakers set to appear at this year's event, which runs from August 20 22, with more keynotes and panel discussions are set to be announced over the coming weeks:
Julian Eggebrecht (USA)
Peter Molyneux (UK)
Michael Capps, Epic Games (USA)
Mark Rein, Epic Games (USA)
Mark Morris, Introversion Software (UK)
Ken Ralston, Big Huge Games (USA)
Cathy Campos, Panache (UK)
Doug Whatley, Break Away (USA)
Michael Lewis, Cryptic Studios (USA)
George Bain (UK)
Christopher Schmitz, 10Tacle Studios (Germany)
Dr. Michael Wimmer, The University of Vienna (Austria
Alexander Fernαndez, Streamline Studios (The Netherlands)
Amir Taaki, Crystalspace (Finland)
Jeff Strain, ArenaNet (USA)
Vlad Ihora, Telia Sonora (Sweden)
Barbara Lippe, Avaloop (Austria)
Pamela Kato, The GamerX (USA)
Uwe Nikl, Level 3 (UK)
Matt Firor, Ultra Mega Games (USA)
Konstantin Ewald, Osborne Clark (Germany)
John Smedley, Sony Online Entertainment (USA)
Cindy Armstrong, Webzen (USA)
Jennifer MacLean, Comcast Interactive Media (USA)
Chris Mottes, Deadline Games (Denmark)
Jeff Hickman, EA Mythic (USA)
Jeffrey Steefel, Turbine, Inc. (USA)
Don Daglow, Stormfront Studios (USA)
Jason Manley, Massive Black (USA)
Patric Palm, Hansoft (Sweden)
Source: MCV
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Comments
Joji 20 Jul 2007 12:41
1/5
Sony, you lot get dumber every day. You keep adding crap to PS3 nobody wants like freaking stupid Freeview, to justify that stupid price tag.
I await August 20th to see you mess up again. You clearly have no idea what gamers want anymore.
I await August 20th to see you mess up again. You clearly have no idea what gamers want anymore.
Zoot Alors 20 Jul 2007 13:13
2/5
Joji wrote:
I await August 20th to see you mess up again. You clearly have no idea what gamers want anymore.
Oooch... have Sony come around to your house and insulted your gran or something? Personally, I like PS2 and PS3 - more so than doing Jane Fonda excersises on with a Wii.
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Joji 20 Jul 2007 15:35
3/5
They've insulted me as a import gamer amongst other things, so yeah, I feel no shame in rejoicing in their mess ups. Does that make me a bad person? No, I don't think so.
Rutabaga 20 Jul 2007 18:59
4/5
Your like a stuck record!
config 22 Jul 2007 08:59
5/5
Joji wrote:
Sony, you lot get dumber every day. You keep adding crap to PS3 nobody wants like freaking stupid Freeview, to justify that stupid price tag.
See, there you're 100% wrong
I have been waiting for an all-in-one freeview/DVD player for ages.
I plan to get a PS3 when there's a *real* price drop, and - most importantly - when there are my kind of killer games (I think GTA4 is already lined up to do that, and Killzone 2 looking pretty promising too.) This news just sweetens the deal a whole hell of a lot.
Let's also consider these point before we disregard this news;
The PS3 can upscale SDTV to HD, so this could be one kick-ass freeview box in terms of picture quality.
Then, of course, each PS3 comes with a hard drive as standard (not optional like, well, you know...) Sony would be missing a pretty obvious and hit trick by not including a "live pause/rewind" TV record option in the TV software. I can also imagine some sort of PSN integration - maybe enhanced TV listings for decent (ie. better than Sky's flaky, forgetful) "series link", TV show comments/forums, a "people who watched this show also like XYZ" feature and even "your buddies are watching" option. Using PSN you could really see some Web2.0 social/community features - very probably tied in to Home.
The fact is, this news takes the PS3 closer to "home entertainment hub" status - surpassing Microsoft's trojan efforts by head an shoulders