Sony Pulls out all the Stops for PS3

At their press briefing, Sony’s Jack Tretton said that he wants to broaden the PS3 base (duh). According to him, the new PS3 $599 model that comes with an 80GB hard drive and packed in with MotorStorm and the 60GB PS3 dropping to $499 will do that. The 120 games on PS3 by end of the fiscal year will also help.

Tretton announced that NCSoft is bringing online games exclusively through PlayStation Network to PS3. An unannounced Ubisoft title named Haze and Unreal Tournament 3 are coming to PS3 exclusively through Midway and Epic in November 2007. Other third party offerings this year include Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Assassin’s Creed, Kane and Lynch: Dead Men, Resident Evil 5, Burnout Paradise, The Simpson’s Game, Guitar Hero 3, Rock Band, Medal of Honor: Airborne and Metal Gear Solid 4. Hideo Kojima once again states that MGS4 will be the end of the series and that “all of the mysteries will be revealed” in early 2008 when the game is released.

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From internal first party studios, the PlayStation 3 will see the release of Ratchet and Clank Future: Total Destruction, Folklore, Heavenly Sword, Little Big Planet, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, a Sucker Punch (makers of Sly Cooper) sandbox game known as Infamous, and Gran Turismo 5. A trailer of Killzone 2 closed out the show with actual in-game footage that lived up to the promised visuals from E3 2005.

Sony made a point of touting their PlayStation Network games, such as WipeOut HD, Pain, Warhawk (online and 4-way split-screen), and SOCOM: Confrontation (purchased from PlayStation Store, it runs completely from the system’s hard drive). Home will allow you to take pictures with a Sony cell phone and integrate them into the service. You can also take screenshots of Home and upload them onto the net.

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