Reports say that Sony PlayStation has the following activity lined up for the 2007 Game Developers Conference:
Phil Harrison, president of the worldwide studios to deliver a keynote speech titled ‘Game 3.0: Developing and Creating for the 3rd Age of Videogames.’ His speech will concentrate on UGC and community, complete with demos of new services and games.
“This is a very exciting time to be part of the game development community. Advancements in technology combined with new consumer trends mean the industry has a great opportunity to create engaging new entertainment experiences for the world,” said Phil Harrison. “I believe we’re at the threshold of a new era in creative game development that’s destined to drive our industry growth through the next decade or more.”
Sony PlayStation plans to champion new development tools for the PS3, PSP and Network. Some of the exclusives include:
- Tuner for PS3 - a profiling tool enabling developers to improve code performance.
- Unreal Engine 3 - Epic’s next-gen game engine technology for genres such as fighting games, shooters and multiplayer online RPGs.
- High-Level Graphics Package, PSSG (PS3 optimized cross-platform graphics engine and tool-chain) production-ready extensible scene-graph framework which is written to take advantage of the PS3’s strengths.
- Pioneering profiling and analysis tools and physics technologies
- Developing with Linux on PS3
- Demonstrations of downloadable titles from the Network including flOw, Blast Factor and Calling of Cars.
- Sony Computer Entertainment developers, engineers and other specialists will also be hosting various education panels to support and encourage the creative innovation of developers and publishers.
I think the word on everyones lips atm is ‘What the hell is PS Home?’ Is it a 3D room with rainbow rugs? Is it a MySpace profile? Is it really happening? I’m counting every hour to the keynote.
Comment by Wollan — Mar 6, 2007 @ 10:17 am
1 day to go…. I hope this keynote will bring some fresh news on PS3
Comment by DarkUSS — Mar 6, 2007 @ 11:41 am
Also… is playstation ‘home’ something different to playstation ‘lifestyle’ that was reported in an earlier round of rumours…?
This is very exciting… but we must also remember that GDC is first and foremost a trade event… and hence it would be a mistake for sony to teat it like a consumer stage.
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Its called “Calling All Cars”….get it right.
Comment by derrickgott007 — Mar 6, 2007 @ 3:49 pm
well nice to see sony have been trying to eleviate the woes of developers with regards to programming for the station…kudos on that sony!
also…i await with baited breath on the actual ’surprise’ anouncement
(fingers x’d its the recently anounced playstation home concept…sounds cool to me)
Comment by seedaripper — Mar 6, 2007 @ 6:30 pm
agreed ps home sounds brilliant - if true.
I’m really getting the feeling that sony have got to do something pretty specil in the next 3 to 4 months, because the negative flack just isn;t going away.
have a look at
http://www.ukresistance.co.uk/
thats pretty extreme… but it’s same story where i live… not a single store has stopped pre orders yet/
Comment by jamie — Mar 6, 2007 @ 9:15 pm
uk resistance is a comedy website… also one still bitter at sonys crushing of the dreamcast.
I wouldnt worry about them. its a good website at least. lol funny.
Comment by hamildan — Mar 6, 2007 @ 11:17 pm
true…. but i use that as an extreme example… every website you go to seems to show the 360 with the advantage - a sentiment that seems to hold true, when you consider the currently bleak software line up for PS3
Sony really need to gain some ground back and fast
Comment by jamie — Mar 6, 2007 @ 11:34 pm
2009 - the year Sony take the lead
ouch..
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