PS3 external connectivity expands
- Posted December 13th, 2007 at 11:42 EDT by
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Sony is always looking forward to ideas that will innovate and progress the industry from a videogame standpoint, to an electronic perspective as a whole. The PlayStation 3 and even PSP are prime examples of this as they both perform a number of functions outside of their core videogame purposes.
Sony continues to further this trend as Sir Howard Stringer, Sony CEO, explained to a Tokyo audience that the Remote Play feature is just the beginning of the PlayStation3’s external connectivity service.
Based on Bloomberg news, it is said that Stringer plans to ultimately link the PS3 with mobile phones and a number of other indeterminate electronic devices. That alone has created more credibility of the rumor that Sony is planning a PlayStation brand phone, much like the Sony Bravia TV branded mobile phone.
"PlayStation Network next year puts us in the direct line of fire with Apple and Microsoft," Stringer tells the Reuters news service, also hinting that next year will be a big year for PSN in terms of content:
“On Friday, we had a dinner where the heads of Sony Electronics, [Sony] Pictures, Sony BMG, and Sony PlayStation were all at the same dinner table intermingled and actually communicating," he said.
The proposed external PS3 connectivity will be part of the 3-year business plan set by Sony, which will begin April 1, 2008, which is also the start of Sony’s next fiscal year.
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Promethius30 |
Tealcsg1- 11:58am GMT - December 13th, 2007
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cool article lets hope psn gets a lot better
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se7enthsign |
Se7enthSign- 12:00pm GMT - December 13th, 2007
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A little harsh. At some point, you just have to accept the fact that PSU isn't IGN or Gamepro. My guess is that they're just a bunch of guys in a low rent studio or even working from home. I can't see anyone at PSU making a whole lot of money, if any at all. They're probably just a bunch of gamers who wanted to run a website.
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Supra2JZGTE
- 12:20pm GMT - December 13th, 2007
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Its clear where Sony is taking the PS3. Into no Games land.
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InfernoReaper |
GrimDarkling- 12:59pm GMT - December 13th, 2007
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I'd be happier to have more PSN content if I had a way to buy it.
If only there were prepaid cars Sony *Hint hint*
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Mecha_Daddy |
mecha_daddy- 3:03pm GMT - December 13th, 2007
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@saso_7
Wow, maybe you should be on another site...
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iplayonlysony
- 3:43pm GMT - December 13th, 2007
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@ BabeBro
You really are not missing out on much. Remote play is cool, IF you like to view some PS3 content a couple of yards away from your PS3. People have not really gotten it to work away from their personal Wifi area.
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brandonh33
- 5:16pm GMT - December 13th, 2007
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I love remote play! I always use it and it works fine for me in any wifi location, but the internet needs to be fairly fast, at least dsl but thats not a big problem nowadays. I have my computer wirelessly connected through the mediaplayer extension so i can have access to all my videos and music on my computer routed through my ps3 and through remote play to my psp! i hope that most of you can understand what I said haha. Whatever happened to that ps3 tv recorder? That would be nice if that is still in their plans but you never know.
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Alpha2
- 5:48pm GMT - December 13th, 2007
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The problem is that even though we all know the PS3 is a game machine Sony is trying to prove that it's MORE than just that. Individuals that bought it more for it's game elements feel like there's not enough focus on that because this third place situation requires a harder fight than the PS2 had. They need to do twice as much as they're doing now to pull out of third and they're only just squeeking by.
They wanted to do this in a 10 year span but you cant when your competition is as strong as it is right now. You have to push like you only have 3 or 4 years and when you last 10 years you chalk it up to early momentum. The PS2 lasted 7 years and counting because it kicked as$ in the first 3 and stayed consistant, The PS3 risks wasting momentum in the first three and never fully hitting its stride until it's time to switch to a new platform and that just hurts the NEXT system.
I dont mind all the other stuff they're doing with the system multimedia wise. It's great and awesome and stuff but it's not making any differeance in the market that it was originally intended to be a presense in and that's Games. Yes we've got games on the shelf now and more on the way but they need to be a bit more forceful about getting the gaming message out so the people complaining about these things dont feel unappreciated.
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oopsadoops |
hbears93- 7:33pm GMT - December 13th, 2007
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i wonder if they will add software to accommodate the phone thing. adress book would be okay, but i love all of the current software, im doing this through my PS3's browser right now!
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tegesh
- 8:23pm GMT - December 13th, 2007
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i know its not related to ps3 but its a message to all of u who owns a 360 dont put any foul words in ur motto or M$ will ban u ,but if u cheated ur as$ off thats ok,those stupid sons of bit*Hes, and the only way to fix it is by buying a new 360, am done with all that m$ shi* ill never buy any of their products as long as i live
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chimmy
- 4:49am GMT - December 14th, 2007
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I'll believe this when I see it. Much the same was said about PS2 with "visions" of it running all you household appliances, but that never materialised. I think the resource would be better spent on improving the gaming experiance... better peripherals etc, 3D, VR...
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