Friday, October 20, 2006

More Details of PlayStation 3 Network

Sony US' marketing for the PlayStation 3 continues its crescendo with more details on one of the jewels in the crown of the next-gen games console, the PlayStation Network. This is where the PS3 communities will flourish and online gaming will continue to gain friends. The service reportedly uses a navigation system already available on Sony's hand held game player, the PSP (not sure why yet!).

Predictably Microsoft this week also announced that four million of us are playing on XBox Live, their own online service. They have also announced the long awaited Gears Of War game is to be released on November 17, the same day PS3 launches.

The PlayStation Network will do most of what Xbox Live does (chat, buy games, download music, video etc..) but with one big addition, it will have an internet browser, whose we don't know.

Online play, chat and other features will be free to users. Sony say downloadable games will cost less than $15 at launch.

Sony has also announced that the first 500,000 systems shipped in North America will include the Bluray of "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby," starring Will Ferrell... well you can't have everything.

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