Sony has recently released a new trailer. This one makes playing with your friends and attempting to end their lives as quickly as possible into a cheery musical that may make it's way to broadway (not really). Nice to see them still making interesting commercials to sell their brand, and not just a single product.
The thing about us gamers, is that we are an impatient bunch. Most often when a new game comes out we want to play it immediately. But we also have new consoles coming out, and we want to make sure that we have something to play on these new consoles. Too bad some of the most anticipated games of the season will come out before the new consoles are released. Sony is well aware of this and has come up with a compromise for us.
They are offering a program with four games, Battlefield 4, Call of Duty: Ghost, Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, and Watch_Dogs. Now Watch_Dogs is a bad example of this as it comes out on the PS4 before it comes out for anything else. But Black Flag and Battlefield 4 come out on 10/29/2013 while Ghost comes out on 11/05/2013. So if you buy any of these 4 games for the PS3, you will get a digital copy for your PS4. You don't even need a PS4 to get it setup. Instructions for this can be found at Playstation 3 to Playstation 4 Digital Upgrade Program site.
Naughty Dog's newest creation, The Last of Us is set to come out right in the middle of E3 on June 14th. First time I saw it I could have sworn it was a new Uncharted game, but no. This game shows what would really happen in an apocalypse. People will do what it takes to survive, morals be damned.
Sony just had there press conference yesterday and man was it an amazing. We saw so many new games and technology going to be put into the PlayStation 4. Graphics looked amazing I cannot wait to see what is in store for Sony later this year. There however was one major thing they didn't show and that my friends was the Console itself; but no worries gamers even if they didn't show the console, they did however show the new Dualshock 4 controller and man is it amazing. Below we will be discussing the differences from the new Dualshock controller compared to the Dualshock 3.
The day has come that Sony promised. The day that they show us what they have planned for the next generation of gaming. So what have the offered us?
How about we start with hardware. The PS4 is set to have a PC architecture to allow for much easier development of games.
The console market is changing.
In case you have been living under a rock for the last 24 hours, Sony just announced a live event for the public on February 20, 2013. Could this be an indication of the long awaited PlayStation 4? The PS4 was told to be revealed at E3 2013, but looks like we might be getting a sneak preview of the new console earlier.
“Wall Street Journal reports that this event is going to be about the PlayStation 4and indeed will be revealed”.
So I we have about 3 weeks to go for this event, you excited? Below is a video teaser of event on what Sony is planning.
Sony CEO Kaz Hirai had indicated that the PlayStation 4 might not be as ready to launch right along with the highly anticipated Xbox 720, code name Durango. I guess we will have to wait and see.
- Phantom Out
While the original PlayStation may have been what placed Sony on the map in the world of video games, it was the PlayStation 2 that helped cement them there. While the system did not initially sell for its ability to play games, and instead for the fact that it was a cheap DVD player, this gave it a large install base. Have such fast sales made developers jump at the chance to create games for it. Over 12 years the system sold 155.1 million systems (as of March 2012). This mean almost every gamer at one time or another had a PS2 (except me, but we are not going to get into that). Now, after a very impressive 13 year life span, the PS2 is ceasing production. And can you fault Sony? We are on the verge of a new generation of consoles, they don't need to produce 3 generations at once. But what does this really mean? Can we expect Sony to have something new and fancy to show us at E3 this year? Can we expect the PS3 to die in 2019? Are they going to make PS Move something we actually want? Only time will tell in the coming months.
We have returned home safely from E3, and in the process we have, and are continuing, to create content based on the convention. Here are links to the articles we have created. This post will be updated as we add additional content for easy access, without flooding the main page.
| Game: | System: |
| Young Justice: Legacy | 360, PS3, Wii, Nintendo DS |
| ZombiU | WiiU |
| Planetside 2 | PC |
| Quantum Conundrum | PC, XBLA, PSN |
| Hitman Absolution | PC, 360, PS3 |
| Star Trek | PC, 360, PS3 |
| Assassins Creed 3 | PC, 360, PS3 |
| Crisis 3 | PC, 360, PS3 |
| Nintendo Land | Wii U |
