All the buzz right now is about the Sony Playstation 3 but with the Sony PSX, the PS2 and now the PS3 it begs the question is there going to be a 4th console in the series and if so when? Playstatic are guessing its going to be around 2010, I think the fact that Sony’s expected life time of the Playstation 3 console is an estimated 10 years. The way that technology is going right now, a new console will have to launch within the next 5 years to keep updated with what video game software can provide for example, online gaming and gaming 3.0.
Right now the hoaxes have already started appearing on the web, with a classic ‘Rick roll’ appearing on Youtube stating.
“The playstation 4 was announced yesterday at a sony conference in Los Angeles.
Release date: TBA 2011″
This is however untrue, no one knows when the release date is going to be although rumors are currently flying around.
Something which popped up on a very well known and respected technology and gadgets blog back in 2006 before the PlayStation 3 wasn’t even out was Sony’s Phil Harrison’s wild speculations about the capability of Playstation 4. According to him, the PS4 won’t support physical discs. At all. He said: “I’d be amazed if the PlayStation 4 has a physical disc drive”, which sounds crazy to me? My first thought would be digital downloads.
This is very interesting, G4 presents a look at the history of the original classic console named the Sony PlayStation, remember that? This is in 2 parts, part 1 and 2 are below.
It is fairly accurate. For more historical information on the original PlayStation, for more information on the history of the Playstation check out: The evolution of the Playstation
Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 Video Trailer Official from Konami.
The latest series in the long line of pro evolution soccer games, the Play station 3 soccer game for 2009 has been completely re-developed from its less successful predecessor. Konami, the makers of pro evolution soccer 2009, had been heavily busy fixing known errors and investing a lot to input the best possible features in to the game.
Konami was able to secure a whole variety of deals to enhance the game, some which include deals to secure the rights to the UEFA Champion’s League and the rights to use Wembley Stadium in the pro evolution soccer game. These are exclusive rights to each respectively, signifying the level of improvement in the game. Pro evolution soccer 2009 not only offers a larger range of deal brought features, but it also offers plenty of in match benefits.
The ‘realistic’ approach has been taken to give the game a better stance than its nearest and biggest rivals FIFA football 2009. The developers have taken even a special focus on the physics of the game, with making ball contact with player and surface much more calculated and realistic. In addition to this, the same has been applied to different weather conditions, such as the ball will run more on a wet surface than a surface on a dry day. Furthermore, another positive to the game is the increase in skill usability.
Based on a player’s ability, new skills and techniques can be used to confound the opposition. This is a massive factor in a Pro evolution soccer 2009 player’s experience of the game as they are able to try out new things, test the limits, and push the boundaries. Some examples of new skills are being able to try out skills in close range, such as kicking the ball over a defenders leg in the smallest of seconds, and being able to flick balls up for extraordinary volleys.
As always, these skills are shown by an improvement of graphics in the game. Graphics are known to be a regular improvement in each game, but little do the graphics actually improve. This is a part of both for pro evolution soccer 2009. No actual mouth watering additions have been made, though the game has better details on players and an overall better running of matches.
Whilst buying the rights too many different features such as brands of Adidas, Nike and Puma, there also needs to be more in game features to use them. Such is the case with pro evolution soccer 2009, with better life like taste in the master league and a completely new feature called ‘Be a Legend’. The master league has a starting sense in how the actual world of football proceeds, with the transfer market, as teams are affected by deals in transfers that benefit them and vice versa.
Meanwhile, pro evolution soccer 2009’s brand new feature, Be a legend, is much like the normal feature in which you can take control of a manager throughout his career, instead, the game player gets to live the life of the footballer.
It is rather blatant that Konami have gone to leaps and bounds to improve Pro evolution soccer 2009, in which they have certainly prevailed.
A Playstation is a 32-bit video game console in the fifth generation. Way back in 1994, Sony Computer Entertainment was the very first company to get into Playstation series. The Playstation passion started with the hand-held gaming devices that had consoles as successors. First one of them was Net Yaroze and then started in series the yet another versions like “PS One” followed by-Pocket Station, Play station 2, Slimline PS 2, Play Station Portable (PSP), PSX, and Playstation 3.
By March 2005, the madden of a Playstation is such that the combined sales of Playstation and PS One were over 100 million consoles. In the history of Video gaming in the world, the Playstation has recorded one of the longest production runs. Sony announced the end of the Playstation production in March 2006.
The PlayStation was launched in Japan on December 3, 1994 and North America on September 9, 1995. The launch price in the American market was us$299 and Sony enjoyed a very successful launch with titles of almost every genre.
The PlayStation was also able to get interest with a series of campaigns of advertising. Many of the ads released at the time of launch were full of ambiguous content. This rendered many gamers rabidly debating their meanings.
During its production run, the PlayStation went through a number of variants, each accompanied by a change in the part number. The most notable change was the gradual reduction in the number of external connectors on the unit. This started very early on only.
Sony’s successor to the PlayStation is the backward compatible with its predecessor , he PlayStation 2, in that it can play almost every PlayStation game. This was done by embedding the PS one’s most important parts inside the PlayStation 2 design. The PlayStation 2 actually contains the original PlayStation processor, allowing games to run exactly as they do on the PlayStation unlike emulators that run on a PC. For PlayStation 2 games this processor which is called the IOP is used for input and output like memory cards, DVD drive, network, and hard drive. Like its predecessor, the PS 2 is based on hardware developed by Sony itself.
The third generation of the PlayStation was launched on November 11, 2006 in Japan, November 17, 2006 in North America which is known as the PlayStation 3 (abbreviated PS3). The PS 3 was initially backward compatible with almost all games that were originally made for PS 1, but due to the remotion of some components after the creation of the 40GB version whose capability is limited now to emulation. In PAL territories and later shipments in North America and Japan (40GB versions and after), however, the PlayStation 3 is not backward compatible in terms of hardware and so supports significantly fewer PS 2 games.
A PlayStation motherboard -MIPS R3000A-compatible 32bit with a RISC chip running at around 33.8688 MHz. The chip is made by LSI Logic Corp. with license from SGI. The chip also contains the Geometry Transformation Engine and the Data Decompression Engine.
Thus playstation is contributing in every area which you can think of be it business, ad, creativity or elsewhere.
Apart from our physical world, there is another world. Things there are totally different in terms of the environment, features, people etc. that is the world of Games. From racing down the track to breaking away from the jails, from flying in the space to solving cases, games are full of innovation and creativity. So many companies have come forward to provide the community of gamers the best games as well as game consoles. Different consoles by different companies are Sony - Playstation, Microsoft - Xbox, Atari – Flashback. The most popular of the ones is the offering from Sony.
Playstation 1 was launched in 1994 and since then Sony has come up with the better ones of the series, Playstation 3 (PS3) being the latest of the lot. Playstation gives its users the ability to play games, music files, video files etc. It was one invention that changed the concept of gaming and took it to a much higher level. The latest offering from Sony in terms of gaming is Playstation Home, which is a very innovative idea and which brings the gamers together. Developers of Home include Ubisoft, THQ, Rockstar Games, and Electronic Arts etc.
Playstation Home provides the Playstation network with a service that is based on community. It will provide the Playstation users the privilege of making their own custom avatars for their PS3 console. The idea of Home is that the users get to have a virtual life as well where they will be even able to create and design their virtual living space. The project was initialized for development in early 2005 and the official launch has been delayed with.
Playstation Home comes with many features and a very nice environment. Here after the customization of avatar and virtual apartments, one will be able to meet other users. They will be able to have text chat, voice chat, listen to music or even exchange data with them. Users will be able to invite the other users at their place for hang out. Apart from this Home even provides few games like pool, bowling etc. In addition to this, Sony has even been strict with the spam problem, it will track down the IP addresses of the consoles and would restrict them the connection of the services.
Playstation Home will provide its users with many features like communication, updating, and hall of fame which will increase the enthusiasm of its users. Hall of fame will give the users an opportunity to display their trophies that will be won by them in different games and tournaments. The number of trophies will decide the reputation and skills of a gamer. The communication part will be done with the help of headset, physical USB keyboard, virtual keyboard or using the emoticons. The updating option will be a great help to Sony as well as the users where new patches or changes will be made as well as the users will be able to upload any pictures in their space. So the latest offering from Sony will be a treat for a gamer and is expected to become very popular with the new age features.
