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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land Looks like those SCE Australia reports were spot-on. At yesterday’s SCEE event in London, Sony announced that PlayTV – Sony Europe’s HDTV tuner & recorder for the PS3 – would be launching in Europe sometime in September, for the price of €99/£80. No idea how well this kind of thing will do at market (it’s an awful lot of money considering it’s skimming off your PS3′s HDD), but as someone yet to fork out for a HD tuner for my own TV, I’ll be keeping an eye on it later this year regardless. PlayTV Dated, Priced [Next-Gen]
At Sony Europe’s Gamers Day event, the company took care to emphasise the “social gaming” angle it’s pursuing. The company focused on “games where players of all ages socialise through gaming,” pointing out EyeToy products, puzzle titles and Buzz!: Quiz TV, where groups can play trivia games on a variety of topics over PlayStation Network.
The overall message seems to highlight the PS3′s diversity as an entertainment device, with the aim of appealing to an all-ages audience.
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PlayTV, Sony’s digital television tuner/recording device for the PS3, has finally been given a release window. Speaking with Sony Australia during a techy meeting this morning, Gizmodo AU were told that the system would launch in Australia during Q4 2008, “roughly a month” after it’s released in Europe. They were also told that it would retail “for less than AUD$200″ ($US185). Any Americans not already aware, now’s a good time to remind you that, sorry, thanks to the way your TV is broadcast, you will never ever see this in the US. PlayTV To Launch In Oz 4th Quarter 08, Sub-$200 [Gizmodo AU]
A BBC blogger got some hands on with the upcoming PlayTV. PlayTV is a jazzed up cable box for the PS3. The menus look pretty swank. The neat part? You can set something to record and switch off your console; It will then switch back on to record the show and shut itself off. Also, it supports subtitles and can live stream broadcasts onto the PSP. Slick!
PlayTV in Action [Three Speech via Gay Gamer]
Sure we may not get Play TV for the Playstation 3 here in the U.S., but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t watch this instructional video and then bitch endlessly about how you don’t get to use it. See that’s what the Internet is all about.
