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PS3 Worldwide Release in November
It's official. Details and more inside. Now updated with more info!
by Jeremy Dunham
March 14, 2006 - Ken Kutaragi, PlayStation Master and keeper of big news has announced at the PS meeting today that the PlayStation 3 will be launching in early November worldwide for the North American, Asian, and European territories.
Once released, Sony will unleash one million units per month with a total of six million units in 2006 alone. Production numbers are higher for PS1 and PS2 in their initial years.
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PS3 Online Details Released
Sony finally unveils Live competition.
by Chris Roper
March 14, 2006 - Sony today finally unveiled info on its PlayStation 3 online plans at its PlayStation Business Briefing currently happening in Japan.
Beginning at the system's launch, currently scheduled for sometime this November, the system will feature community tools including lobby matching and voice chat, commerce features that includes bootable software via the hard drive.
The service was created with the help of Sony Online Entertainment. Best of all, the "basic" service will be free of charge.
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Final PS3 Dev Kits in June
Kits coming sooner than we thought.
by Jeremy Dunham
March 14, 2006 - In one of several compelling announcements made in Tokyo at the 2006 PlayStation Business Briefing today, SCE president Ken Kutaragi confirmed that the final PS3 development kits will be shipping out to production houses in June. Additionally, there are 15 different companies making tools and middleware for the SDK.
For frequent readers of this site, you may be interested to know that the technology folks in IGN.com's parent company IGN Entertainment (aka GameSpy Technologies) are contributing to the network solution.
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PS3 HDD Required
It's 60GB and Linux too.
by Jeremy Dunham
March 14, 2006 - As part of the PlayStation Business Brief today in Tokyo, Ken Kutaragi confirmed that the PlayStation 3 will require the hard drive peripheral. In total, it will be 60GB big, be completely upgradeable, and support Linux OS. Additionally, the peripheral will act as a home server and allow users to store various forms of media to be pulled up elsewhere.
Interestingly, Kutaragi didn't confirm if the system will actually ship with a hard drive or not -- just that it's required. It's semantics, we know, but we thought that it was worth pointing out.
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Blu-ray Disc Production Info
PS3 to use Blu-ray exclusively - no games DVD.
by Chris Roper
March 14, 2006 - At its PlayStation Business Briefing 2006 in Japan, Sony announced its production plans for BD-ROM discs (Blu-ray). Firstly, all PlayStation 3 games will ship on Blu-ray to help prevent piracy. In other words, no "cheap" DVD releases; Blu-ray only. Of course, it'll still play PS2 and movies on DVD, but all PS3 releases will be on Blu-ray.
The company expects initial BD-ROM production to reach 2.5 million in Japan and Europe and 5 million in the US.
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