During a recent interview, President of Sony Computer Entertainment America Jack Tretton reinforced Sony CEO Howard Stringer's views on a PS3 price cut.
To quote: "We could've come out with a PlayStation 2.5 for $299 or less, and in the first two or three years it would sell extremely well," he explains.
"But there would be a point where people would be going, 'I am not really seeing the...
Recently SKFU shared some details on a PC / PS3 Messenger project in development, and over the weekend he has also theorized on some other untapped potential via the PS3's XMB (Cross Media Bar) interface.
To quote: The XMB is a nice core for a lot of features but why are they not unlocked yet? To mention a few examples:
Selfmade Widgets The PS3 uses a widget engine based on open...
According to both Tawkn (linked above) as well as users on the GameSpot Forums, the Resident Evil 5 Patch 1.03 is now available and apparently it has removed gamesave protection so users can back them up.
To quote: Fire up Resident Evil 5 and you will be prompted to download the 38MB v1.03 patch. But what has changed?
Well, the only thing I noticed so far is that saved...
Wack0 released the homebrew app WiiSCU which will update your Wii's system channels. Its based on tona's shop+IOS51 updater, or better said, he continued his work and added some IOS and system channels to it.
I can't count how many times I and many others have told people to not get their hopes up with PS3 firmware updates. Sony didn't 'shaft' anyone.
They haven't even hinted there was a firmware update coming out for the PlayStation 3. Loads of blogs/Web sites have reported what could come in the next firmware update - but why all the hype? Sony hasn't said if the rumored features were...
Seems that the image of Famitsu magazine announcing Tales of Vesperia for the PS3 was a fake. There is no mention of Tales of Vesperia in the magazine's table of contents.
However, this does not rule out the possibility of the game coming to the PS3 in the future.
To quote: See that blurry magazine scan? It apparently says that Xbox 360 title Tales of Vesperia is...
HotDog-Cart recently completed this PlayStation 3 boomerang controller. The boomerang was originally shown with the PlayStation 3 prototype, and was severely panned by the press... but now it's a reality as a result of some custom modification work.
He started with a cheap 3rd-party controller that was approximately boomerang shaped. He enlarged the controller body ~20% using bondo....
We all know using the PS3 on screen keyboard to type, can be very tedious. So tedious, that I have had people whom I’ve sent a PSN message to, reply via email, just so they could just type on their computer.
I didnt really want a huge full-sized keyboard and mouse setup, as I game from the comfort of my couch. I dont have the space for it and its inconvenient.
What happens when you put videogames, human imagination and the eternally democratic outlet of the internet together? Two words: fan fiction.
Name a game and there's a very good chance you'll find at least one person has bothered to contribute something to its universe in writing, be it a prologue, sequel, a random offshoot set in the same world or an unlikely romantic...