Killzone 3 gameplay montage
- Move functionality at launch
- February 2011
Playstation Move
- “Future Proof”
- Socom 4 and NBA 2k11 have separate modes for Move and normal controller
- Sorcery – Use Move like a magic wand to shoot spells and perform motion based actions, Spring 2011
- Heroes on the Move – Developed by Nihilistic Software, features Jak and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank, Sly and Bentley, Seemed to be some type of action platformer taking elements from each respective franchise.
- Partnership with Coca-Cola to promote Move coming Holiday 2010
- Kevin Butler is awesome, the end.
- Available in Europe on September 15th, America on September 19th and Japan on October 21st
- Core Unit (No Camera) – $49.99, Nunchuck-like Secondary Controller – $29.99
- Package with 1 Move Controller (No Nunchuck), Camera, and Sports Champions for $99.99
- Above Package with a PS3 for $399.99
- Playstation Move titles can be retailed for $39.99
- Games with support teased include- Time Crisis: Raising Storm, Ruse, Singstar Dance, Echochrome 2, Killzone 3, Eyepet, Brunswick Bowling, The Fight: Lights Out, Sports Champions, Superstars TV, The Shoot, Lord of the Rings, Aragorn’s Quest, Tron Evolution
PSP
- New PSP marketing campaign introduces the slogan “Step Your Game Up” and mini Kevin Butler personality Marcus
- Invizimals – New augmented reality game with new PSP camera attachment
- God of War: Ghosts of Sparta – Appears to be a prequel
- Both God of War and Invizimals to get entertainment packs
- Games Teased: Ace Combat: Joint Assault, Toy Story 3, The Third Birthday (Parasite Eve 3), UFC Unleashed 2010, Gravity Crash Portable, DBZ Teckaichi: Tag Team, Hot Shots Tennis: Get A Grip, Madden 11, Patapon 3, Eyepet PSP, Piyotama, Ys (Didn’t catch the subtitle), Valkyria Chronicles 2
PSN
- Over 50 Million connected accounts
- New Season of the Tester coming this fall
- PSN video service launching in Canada
- Sony’s E3 booth replicated in Home offering videos and exclusive Home items
- New Subscription Plan called Playstation Plus launching later this month
- Offers Early demos, beta invites, full PSN games, themes, minis, store discounts and automatic content delivery, as well as access to Playstation Qore
- Full year for $49.99, 3 Months for $17.99, and free 3 month trial
- First Items that will be available will be Wipeout HD, Infamous 2 Demo, Field Runners and Age of Zombies minis, Rally Cross (PS1 title), exclusive map packs
- Only own the content for the duration of your subscription
Medal Of Honor
- Launching October 12th 2010
- Exclusive Tier 1 operator interviews on June 28th
- ‘Unlockable Beards’
- Beta June 21st
- Limited Edition featuring an HD Remastered version of Medal of Honor: Frontline
Dead Space 2 Live Demo
- Limited Edition with Dead Space 2, and Dead Space Extraction (With Move support)
Portal 2 Reveal
- Gabe Newell on stage stating PS3 version of Portal 2 will be the definitive version
- Steam Cloud and Automatic Updates
- 2011
FFXIV Teaser – No Date Given
Mafia II
- Exclusive In Game Day 1 content
- New Missions and arcade style gameplay
Assassins Creed Brotherhood
- Exclusive mission packs
- Multiplayer Beta later this year only on PS3
- November 16th 2010
Gran Turismo 5
- Trailer showed vertical crashes, Top Gear test track, Sebastian Vettel as an instructor
- November 2nd 2010
Infamous 2
- New Ice power teased
Twisted Metal Reveal
- 16 Player Online, 2 and 4 player online splitscreen
- Each vehicle has 2 specials
- Air combat with helicopters shown
- New Nuke gameplay type shown (CTF variant)
Eric – Sony showed that this year that it was about the games, and if Kevin Butler’s speech during the middle of the press conference proved anything it cemented this fact. Although there were no huge reveals besides Twisted Metal, I am intrigued by almost every game shown and it makes me yearn for a PS3 of my own.
The star of the show for me was Little Big Planet 2; I can’t wait to see the new and crazy games that come out of the community after everyone has time to figure out all of the tools out. Sorcery also looked neat, and frankly blew the Zelda demo out of the water (although reports from hands on with the game have said that the controls of Zelda are much better then they appeared on stage).
Of all the motion control systems (Move, Kinect, Motion Plus) I feel like Sony did the best job in showing and talking about games for the hardcore audience. Nintendo kind of skipped over a lot of Wii specific motion control games, and Microsoft put the focus squarely on family and casual titles for Kinect, while Sony showed Sorcery in depth and teased many other titles. Overall I think better then Microsoft and just about equal to Nintendo.
Scott – Since you can read the list of games and announcements above I won’t go into that. What I will say were the few funny and surprising moments of the show. First of, as I said on Twitter, Kevin Butler is the best bit of marketing that Sony (or any gaming company) has ever purchased. Hands down. Second when they announced the price for Move and everyone cheered… until they heard that you had to pay an extra $30 for the nunchuck part of the controller. Keeping them as separate packages is ludicrous. I didn’t see anyway of playing a game with out having both. I could be wrong (and hope I am) but you NEED them both to experience the true feel of Move. Finally and most importantly for me was the announcement of Twisted Metal. My surprise and adoration that I had for the Donkey Kong Country announcement was ten times more powerful upon hearing of a new Twisted Metal. This is the game that got me hooked on Playstation in the first place. Absolutely cannot wait to play that game.
After seeing all of the big three present their best, I have to say that my hat is off to Nintendo. However Sony did a very nice job keeping the Move demo short and sweet, as well as letting you know they still have some blockbuster exclusives coming out in the next couple years. Now, to start saving for it all.
Chris – Sony, I love your system, but your press conference didn’t push me over the edge. Nintendo totally took you to the school yard on the press conference front. You blew your wad on 3D and PlayStation Move.
The best part of this conference was when Kevin Butler came out and gave his gamer speech. I enjoyed this tid bit a lot. He got in his jabs to Microsoft and Nintendo while being enjoyable to listen too.
Killzone 3 looks awesome. The biggest surprise was Portal and Steam coming to the PS3. This was the hotness. I’m stoked to play another Twisted Metal. InFamous will be another day one pickup.
The biggest letdown would come in the paid subscription service your introducing. I didn’t really hear a lot that would compel me to blow money on this service. Maybe once it is out and we see all the freebies I might change my mind.
For those upset about the pricing of Konect, the move is not much cheaper. Those people who don’t have a PlayStation Eye will need to buy the camera, dild…er wand, and navigation controller. The one thing nobody has really brought up is that you see two wands in many advertisements. Even the giant banner of Kevin Butler shows him holding two Move wands. Two wands alone will set you back $100. Think about that before you jump down Microsoft for their $150 Konect crap.
Overall, I can’t say I’m excited for 3D. PlayStation Move is going to lead to a lot more broken TV’s. 3D and Move will just lead to expensive TV being busted. Electronics companies are going to love Sony. Brace yourselves gamers, 3D and motion controls are going to pollute your gaming experiences from here on out.
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