A partial translation of an interview conducted by Japanese website Game Watch with Sony Computer Entertainment Asia’s Tetsuhiko Yasuda suggests that Sony is planning to offer unspecified PlayStation 3 games for online download in South Korea and elsewhere in Asia, largely due to piracy-related issues prevalent on the Asian market.
The Sony PlayStation 3 and the PSP have the highest percentage of brand awareness amongst consumers according to Forrester's latest report on the video games industry.
One of the biggest talking points about the PlayStation 3 has been its Blu-ray drive and how that will allow more gaming goodness on one disc. No one can deny that a Blu-ray disc can hold substantially more information than standard DVD, but what about the read speed of a Blu-ray drive?
Sony Corp.'s launch of its next-generation PlayStation 3 video game console could be delayed if industry specifications for some of its technology are not finalized soon, although it is still aiming for a spring rollout, it said on Monday.
The Cell processor has been one of the major marketing tools thus far for the PS3. The Cell is essentially 8 fast microprocessors being coordinated by one IBM Power processor.
Popular video game career sites have recently updated their job boards with various employment listings for the respected Treyarch development studio. The jobs in question (Programmer, Tools Programmer, and Graphics Programmer) are all needed for two upcoming Activision-published projects, Spider-Man and Call of Duty. Though both companies are certainly known for their work on those franchises, the interesting thing about the classified ad is that they are exclusively aimed at recruiting for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the games.
Based on a recent survey conducted by Japan's top gaming magazine Famitsu, the PlayStation 3, Nintendo DS and Nintendo Revolution are going to be the big stories for the year 2006. The magazine gathered the opinions 113 retailers and 47 game developers on a variety of game related issues. The Online version of Famitsu, Famitsu.com, gathered the opinion of 370 regular gamers.