Speaking to Industry Gamers, Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has claimed that Sony has learned lessons from its handling of the PSP, and will focus on providing unique experiences that can only be delivered on via a handheld console.
Sony’s next-generation handheld gaming console, the PlayStation Vita, goes on sale next Thursday (February 23). But who is offering the cheapest pre-order deals? Planhacker has crunched the numbers and found there’s not much in the way of discounting going on.
Yesterday we broke the news that three major Australian retailers would not be stocking the PlayStation Vita, but stock is still arriving for specialist retailers and, today, the PlayStation Blog posted some pics of stock destined for Australia. Damn, that’s a lot of PlayStation Vitas…
Sony Ericsson made a lot of noise in 2011 regarding ‘Playstation’ phones, but aside from a single model, it’s all been a bit quiet since then. Now it’s emerged that the first company outside of Sony to get Playstation certification will be HTC.
Remember that Sony ad that everyone was making a fuss over a while back? The ‘Long Live Play’ ad that had everyone saluting ‘Michael’? The one featuring real life representations of Solid Snake, Kratos, Nathan Drake et al? Well the production company who helped create it has released some behind the scenes photography of the shoot, and it’s quite interesting. My favourite shot? The one where ‘Nathan Drake’ had to stand on a box so he can look taller than ‘Lightning’ from Final Fantasy XIII.
This makes complete sense, but it’s nice to have it confirmed — according to Shack News Sony has stated that downloadable versions of PS Vita games will be 10% cheaper than their regular box retail counterparts.
This falls into two categories: the ‘how the hell did anyone find this’ category, and the ‘what the hell were they thinking’ category. The Queensland government has put up a webpage that blatantly, blatantly steals the logo for PlayStation Home. Blatantly.
I’d never claim to be an expert on automotive design, but this still surprised me: one of the tools that Ford uses when creating new car models is ye humble olde PlayStation controller.
We’ve just gotten confirmation from JB Hi-Fi that the retailer will no longer be taking pre-orders for, or selling, the 3G version of the PlayStation Vita and is limiting its stock to the Wi-Fi version of the console only.
I always found Australia’s lack of a Netflix alternative on console disturbing, but starting from tomorrow all Australian PS3s will have access to Quicklflix — a subscription based service that allows users to stream video content through their consoles.
