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Sony Conference Details

Sony’s conference is coming up. They are the last of the major three hardware developers that will be making a presentation. Will they take Microsoft’s approach of a packed conference, or follow Nintendo with their stats filled fluff fest? I’m imaging given their focus last year, they will continue to reveal a lot on the games they have coming up soon. Any big surprises? Any shots fired at Microsoft’s big reveals yesterday? Guess will see. When the show starts, "Read More" to follow my live updates.

2:36 – Congerence is FINALLY getting started. Cool intro with floating X’s, O’s, Traingles and Squares.

2:38 – This Sony guy is the most personable host of the coferences so far. That isn’t saying much. But still.

2:43 – He is talking about the history of the franchise, and the 10 year life cycle of their consoles. Making points about how some of their franchises always start late in the life cycle of their consoles. It’s a  "You should be getting excited for the future" speech.

2:47 – Luckily we finally get to see some content I think. He was starting to drone on and get wordy. Got enough of that from Nintendo.

2:48 – Resistence 2 gameplay being shown. With their 500 foot boss. Looks nice. Very Cloverfield-esque.

2:53 – 8 player online co-op, 60 player competition mode online. Going to show a new trailer with game footage. VERY nice looking trailer. Very moving. San Francisco is getting pounded by tons of of Motherships.

2:56 – Little Big planet being talked about now.

2:58 – The game is all about creating content. They’ve used the game to create a level to present the sales figures for Sony. A unique and more interesting way than it is usually presented. Very cute. :)

3:02 – That wasn’t painful at all. Thank God for showing some innovation with their presentation of sales numbers.

3:03 – Little Big Planet releases October 2008.

3:04 – Talking about PS2. Why? Yes, it sells better, but focus on the future, not the past. Do people still buy new PS2 games? Stop it.

3:07 – Now talking about Singstar and Buzz, their singing and trivia games. Buzz comes to PS3 in September.

3:08 – $149 bundle for PS2 with Lego Batman game and Justice League: New Frontiers movie included. WTF?

3:09 – Playstation Network. Let’s see if they can meet Xbox Live’s challenge. They are going to a single user sign in for all games. They didn’t have that before? Suck. Anyway, across PS3, PSP, and PC it will be the same user.

3:10 – Ratchet and Clank Future: Quest for Booty. Playstation Network game. Shorter game, online download. $15 this summer.

3:14 – First shot at the competition I’ve caught this E3: "We’re not interested in filling up our stores with titles no one wants to play just so we can say we have the most". I doubt they’ve ever turned down a game for their network from a game studio.

3:17 – Gran Turismo TV Pay Per View coming to Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. Apparently you can watch pay per view on actual real life racing and crap. I wonder how many people care about that crap. Starting August 1st.

3:19 – Talking about Trophies now, their version of Achievements.

3:20 – Talking about Home now. They said the wait will be paid off when Public Beta launches. They are going to create stuff from game developers and non-gaming companies like Nike in game. New Video. Sorry, I don’t get the "Social Gaming". Not for me.

3:24 – Talking about their upcoming movies store. Naming their content providers, etc. You can put your content on the PSP, and take it with you.

3:27 – Showing off the video store now. Maybe they should have brought back Little big Planet. That got a bit dull. The new content goes live tonight.

3:30 – Moving on to PSP now. New Ratchet and Clank entertainment pack. New Resistance Retribution PSP game.

3:35 – PSP Gameplay Montage. Lots of games.

3:40 – Life with Playstation. News, sports, weather. Blah, Blah. Welcome to Wii a year ago.

3:41 – Talking about DC Universe Online. They are trying to claim that SOE is good. Don’t buy that. Worst MMOs on the market. :P

3:42 – Jim Lee comes out to talk to DC Universe Online. He is "Literally Pumped" to be here. Sounds painful.

3:44 – First DC trailer….They are making it look like you actually play as the established characters. And those animations look horrible. Typical bad SOE animations. Reminds me of Star Wars Galaxies and its jerkiness.

3:47 – Starting in September you can get the 80 gig pack for the price of the current 40 gig pack at $399.

3:49 – Developers talking about how the Playstation 3 is powerful for making games.

3:53 – Another reel of random games.

3:56 – God of War 3 trailer. Short. Completely CG. Obviously doesn’t look too far along.

3:57 – Time for inFamous. Free Running + Super Powers + Choice of Good or Evil. Looks sweet.

4:00 – One final title that pushes "even the PS3 architecure to the extreme". It "can’t be done on any other system". MAG: Massive Action Game. Up to 256 player battles. Teams will be broken down into 8-player teams with people that have shown themselves to be good leaders leading the teams. Character growth. Trailer time.

4:03 – Looks like another CGI trailer. Reminds me of Frontlines: Fuel of War with more players. Eh. Looks ok. Not earth shaking. Looks like chaos and lag, to me.

4:05 – And they are done. A well organized presentation without many big announcements.