Random PS3 News Thread

[jefXfree]

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe have announced that they are hosting a We are PlayStation photography competition that has now launched in Europe. Electronic Theatre ImageThe team?s jubilation at getting a BUZZ! question right; the laughter of a room full of SingStar fans; the entertaining journeys playing your PlayStation Portable! They?re all classic PlayStation moments that you?ve seen or experienced hundreds of times - but can you capture them in a photo? If you can, your name could be in the hat to win some great prizes. There?s also the possibility of a serious cash prize, the possibility of the images being used in future PlayStation campaigns as well as a new Sony D-SLR a350 digital camera and lens. Get snapping and upload your photos by the 16th March 2009 for a chance to win.

The rules are simple ? capture the perfect image of you, your friends or your family enjoying a PlayStation moment with your PLAYSTATION3, PlayStation2 or PlayStation Portable and upload it to www.weareplaystation.com. There are different categories your photos could enter: Caught in the Moment, Unexpected Places, PlayStation Parties, True Love and Endless Play. A panel of guest judges will assess top user-rated snaps on their merits and work out which photographer deserves the top prize of 1000 euros and a Sony D-SLR a350 camera. Ten runners up will receive cash prizes of 100 euros each, while the next best 100 entries will get their hands on a top PlayStation game or vouchers for the PlayStation Store. All entries have the chance of being used in a future PlayStation marketing campaign.

Of course, PlayStation is all about its community ? and that?s why we?re asking you to judge the first round of the competition. PlayStation fans can visit the website and decide which shots will be put before the judges by rating each photo with a score from one to five. Also, every time you Electronic Theatre Imageenter the site, you can give your favourite image a secret ?Super Vote? which will be used to determine the finalists in case several entries generate the same overall rating. The images with the highest average score and, in the event of a tie, with the highest number of ?Super Votes? will go before the judging panel ? so it pays to get everyone you know onto the site and voting.

With so many great moments for so many different PlayStation communities, this is the chance not only to show off your natural eye for a photograph, but also to show the world just how much fun you have with your friends ? and a PLAYSTATION3, PlayStation2 or PlayStation Portable. Visit www.weareplaystation.com for competition terms and conditions and get snapping!
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[j_rocca42]

I think an "M" rating would have been cool, but it would've cut into sales.

 

[BlueCali]

I think an "M" rating would have been cool, but it would've cut into sales.

I know tons of people who didn't buy it because there was no gore, and the fatalities sucked hard.

 

[j_rocca42]

Here is the Press Release. You're right though, no word on price yet...

 

[Wreck]

You know why they are doing this ... one this **** picks up they will slowly but sho'ly start closing BB stores ... then they will only keep the really high profit margin generating stores and in the long run (years from now) end up really just like another netflix... less employess , online rentals...

maybe ... lol .... ... ofcourse, they have alraedy been doing that plan, closing the crappy stores and such.

 

[Wreck]

Yeah, but you dont know tons of kids who bought it cause they could LOL

for them to have already sold as much as LBP .. .means they did something right!

They shoulda just put out two versions ... but with having company probs they couldnt take the gamble ... in any case, lots of gore or not, the game has good controls and is really fun and has a story mode that is cool, online is cool, and classic arcade mode and some kick ass characters

 

[j_rocca42]

It makes good business sense for them. Though it sucks that they will eventually be closing down stores and cutting jobs.

 

[Horhay]

I didn't buy MK v DC because it had no gore. I thought Midway was long overdue with this right next to Acclaim.

 

[Wreck]

I didn't buy MK v DC because it had no gore. I thought Midway was long overdue with this right next to Acclaim.

You should def pick it up when it goes bargain price to add a good fighting game to ur ps3 collection ... I liked it better then Soul Calibur, and will prolly like it better than SFIV

 

[j_rocca42]

You should def pick it up when it goes bargain price to add a good fighting game to ur ps3 collection ... I liked it better then Soul Calibur, and will prolly like it better than SFIV

Are there trophies? I'm starting to look more for games that have trophies now for some reason...

 

[Horhay]

Better than SFIV? I dunno to make that claim SFIV needs to be out first then we can make the claim, I just think Midway has been making too many bad MK games most people would agree that the best were 1,2, 4 & Deadly Alliance and from then on they haven't released many good titles which directly have impacted their sales.

 

[j_rocca42]

The SF series owns the MK series IMO. especially since Marvel vs. Capcom 2 is the best fighting game ever!

 

[Wreck]

First off, I said I WILL PROLLY LIKE IT better ... didnt already stake claim as it being better.

Secondly, yes it has trophies ... And they are obtainable, except for the Kombo challenge trophies which make up half the games ... to those, I say good luck.

Last but not least, MK series has owned SF series. Last time I played a good SF was SNES ... STF2HDTURBO is just repetitive BLAH ... Doesnt hold alot of replay value like mk vs. dc does.

 

[j_rocca42]

First off, I said I WILL PROLLY LIKE IT better ... didnt already stake claim as it being better.

Secondly, yes it has trophies ... And they are obtainable, except for the Kombo challenge trophies which make up half the games ... to those, I say good luck.

Last but not least, MK series has owned SF series. Last time I played a good SF was SNES ... STF2HDTURBO is just repetitive BLAH ... Doesnt hold alot of replay value like mk vs. dc does.

are you taking crazy pills

 

[Horhay]

yeah what he said! repetitiveness is in every fighting game dude!

 

[j_rocca42]

Here's a pic of wreck...

 

[Horhay]

Lmao!!!

 

[Wreck]

Lol niiice!

 

[BlueCali]

Sony Now Charging Publishers For PS3 Downloadable Content

Publishing sources told us that Sony’s previously un-reported new “PlayStation Network Bandwidth Fee” is forcing them to think twice about what content they offer to PS3 gamers for download.

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Until October 1 2008, video game publishers who wanted to offer downloadable content on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 didn’t have to worry about getting a bill from Microsoft and Sony.

The million-plus downloads that a popular demo or map pack might receive could delight gamers, but rack up some expensive bandwidth costs. No problem: the publishers, who already pay a licensing fee to get their games on the two big platforms, could count on the platform holders — Microsoft and Sony — to pay the cost of piping that digital content to gamers.

That situation changed with the PS3 on October 1 of last year, when Sony implemented a 16 cents per Gigabyte fee to publishers for paid and free downloadable content, according to publishing sources familiar with Sony’s policy.

Game publishers are not happy about it.

MTV Multiplayer has verified that a letter sent to publishers last fall detailed the policy. It applies a 16-cent charge to every Gigabyte of content downloaded from the PS3’s PSN online store. For free content, like demos, those charges apply only during the first 60 days of the content’s release. For paid content, like map packs, the charges rack up in perpetuity, or until that content is removed from the PlayStation 3’s online store.

This “PlayStation Network Bandwidth” fee has been unpopular with game companies, according to at least three publishing and development sources who spoke to MTV Multiplayer about the policy on the condition of anonymity so as not to get their companies on Sony’s bad side.

“It definitely makes us think about how we view the distribution of content related to our games when it is free for us to do it on the web, on Xbox Live, or any other way — including broadcast — than on Sony’s platform,” one publishing source said. “It’s a new thing we have to budget. It’s not cool. It sucks.”

Publishers already pay costs for creating a demo, a process that can run six figures. Sony’s fees add a new expense. For a demo that is sized at exactly 1GB and is downloaded one million times, that would add an extra $160,000 that Sony is now charging and that, according to publishing sources, Microsoft isn’t. That’s what could scare publishers from placing content on the PS3.

The cost estimate is relevant because demos can be that big and that popular. Demos typically run at close to 1GB, with Ubisoft’s “Hawx” demo weighing in at 834MB, “Resident Evil 5” at 942MB and the demo for the upcoming “Legend of Wrestlemania” at 1003MB, which is just over 1GB. On the Xbox 360, the “Halo Wars” demo has exceeded two million downloads. The “Resident Evil 5″ demo, across the Xbox 360 and PS3, was downloaded more than four million times by late February.

Sony declined to comment on why the new policy was put in effect, how the 16 cents figure was determined or what kind of feedback it’s dealing with from publishers. But the company did address what might be the most pressing concern for gamers regarding this matter: whether the new charges will scare publishers from placing content on the PS3 online store: “Appreciate the opportunity to jump in here, but we respect the confidentiality of our business agreements with our publishing partners,” Sony Computer Entertainment of America spokesman Patrick Seybold said in an e-mailed statement to MTV. “Of course we work closely with them to bring their amazing content to our growing audience, and we are focused on ensuring we, and our publishing partners, have a viable platform for digital distribution. We foresee no change in the high quality or quantity of demos and games available on PSN.”

So far, the content on the PS3’s PSN store supports Sony’s claim that publishers aren’t pulling material. MTV Multiplayer found that eight of the most recent demos from games ranging from Atari’s “Wheelman” to Namco’s “Afro Samurai” and Take 2’s “MLB 2K9” are available on the PS3 and Xbox 360 online store. One of the only major pieces of free content not on the PS3 is the recently-released “Call of Duty: World at War” demo from Activision, which is on the Xbox 360. Activision reps did not respond to repeated requests for comment for this story. It is possible that it is too soon for Sony’s policy to cut into the number of demos and extra content available on the PSN store — or that publishers, despite their complaints, can and will stomach the charges.

One publishing source who has worked with Sony in the past year said the new policy is an unwanted burden. The source is concerned that the Network Fee will be a turn-off to publishers. One problem, he said, is that publishers will be caught by surprise at what the charges are going to be, as they do not have up-to-the-second data on how much of their content is being downloaded. “It’s like leaving your phone off the hook for a long distance call,” the source said. “The meter is still running.”

While Microsoft’s policy of not charging publishers for downloadable content might sit well with game-makers, it does suggest that Sony is simply tapping a different source to generate money to help pay for the downloading of popular content. Sony is asking publishers to foot the bill, but the content remains free for gamers who own PS3s. Microsoft, however, charges users an annual $50 fee for Xbox Live Gold membership and has been delaying access to some of its downloadable content to non-paying Silver members in favor of those Gold subscribers.

Without further comment from Sony, it is impossible to determine what the new policy means for the free PSN service. The new charges could be the price of keeping the service free to users. But it could have nothing to do with that and instead reflect general financial woes at Sony as a whole.

What gamers will want to be most concerned about — and watchful of — is the range of content available on the PS3’s online store. If the variety of demos, map-packs, wallpapers, trailers and other DLC offerings for multi-platform games on the PS3 store begins to fall behind the offerings on the Xbox 360, gamers will have at least one 16-cent guess as to why.

 

[Horhay]

I read this too, it sucks is no good, this won't help PSN at all the only thing that it will do is eventually developers are going to turn away because of the fees and produce less. Sony needs to acknowledge this and get rid of the fees if not they are going to suffer.

 

[DaMexiRican]

I hope dev's don't start pulling away DLC for ps3 because of this