One of the surprise announcements from Sony at the Gamescom 2013 conference was a key partnership between PlayStation and 3rd party studios like EA and Activision where games who would purchase select PS3 titles would be rewarded if they wanted to buy the same title for the PlayStation 4. The games mentioned include heavy hitters like Call of Duty: Ghosts and Battlefield 4. Now, according to Eric Hirshberg, CEO of Activision Publishing, Call of Duty: Ghosts can be had for $10 on the PS4.
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A lot has been said about the new Dualshock 4 controller for the PS4 and it’s all been praise. From better trigger buttons to a smoother D-pad and analogue sticks, the Dualshock 4 is jam packed full of new technology. Sucker Punch, the studio behind the inFamous franchise and the upcoming inFamous: Second Son for the PS4 along many other first party studios was invited to Japan so they could help shape the future of the controller. The video after the jump is from their point of view, highlighting their involvement with the project and some unique ways the Dualshock 4 is changing the game.
Exclusive to the PS4, The Order: 1886 is developed by Ready at Dawn and Sony Santa Monica as a shooter with a 2014 release date. While not a lot of details are known about the title, outside of a teaser trailer that was shown at E3 2013, we do know that the game has been in development since 2010 and really began to properly ramp up in 2012. Now, new concept art from the game has emerged that help further set the mood and direction of the game which can be enjoyed after the jump.
After a busy Tuesday full of PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation Vita announcements from Gamescom 2013, it’s time to sit back and fire up your console of choice to get the latest PlayStation Store updates. Some note worthy releases from this week include:
- Saints Row IV – Pre-Order ($59.99)
- Battlefield 4 – Pre-Order ($59.99)
- The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season ($19.99)
- God of War: Ascension Add-ons – $2.99+
After the jump, the full update awaits you.
Today has been a big day in the gaming world. Amongst the flurry of game-related news, PlayStation announced two new colors for their PS4 Dualshock 4 controllers. Say hello to Magma Red and Wave Blue, the two colors that will join the ranks with the ever-popular Jet Black. These two-toned controllers are sleek and fun, and they’ll be sure to bring a pop of color to your living room (you may never lose your controller in the couch again!).
These colorful controllers will be available upon launch in Europe, and later this year (TBA) in North America. As the press release notes, they will be sold at an RRP of € 59 / £ 54 (including tax) in Europe and US$ 59 / Canada$ 59 in North America. We’ll keep you up to date as we learn more!
If you want to get into the nitty gritty of these controllers, check out the press release after the jump. But first, vote in our poll!
We’ve heard a lot about the PlayStation 4 being capable of streaming most of its games to the PlayStation Vita via Remote Play. While technically possible between the PS3 and PSP, neither console housed the appropriate hardware to allow for the vision to work properly. Due to this, very few developers embraced the feature. With the PS4, the functionality of Remote Play to the Vita is baked in with developers having to do little to no work and ensuring that most titles will support the feature. After the jump, we can see how seamless the feature works when you start a game like Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag on the PS4 and continue the game via Remote Play on the PlayStation Vita which was shown at Gamescon 2013 PlayStation press conference.
When Sony announced the PlayStation 4 way back in Spring, fans quickly fell in love with the system. While offering more freedom than the Xbox (though MS has backtracked on some of its earlier policies), the PS4 also fully embraced the social world we live in. One such measure is the ability for the PlayStation 4 to record and stream your gameplay. At any given moment, the PS4 records 15 minutes of your footage that you can upload and share online with no subscription service required. On the other hand, the Xbox One is only capable of recording 5 minutes of footage and requires a paid Xbox Live membership account in order for you to share your recorded gameplay footage.
Beyond being able to share gameplay footage, both companies announced that their game console would be able to stream live gameplay footage. While Microsoft announced a partnership with the popular Twitch.tv platform where millions of gamers already stream their gameplay footage, Sony announced that they’d partnered with uStream. While uStream offers a similar service to that of Twitch.tv and both platforms would be free for gamers, uStream is more designed at corporations and isn’t as well put together, especially when it comes to content discovery as Twitch.tv. While not a dealbreaker, gamers clamored that Twitch.tv would also become available on the PS4 and after today’s press conference at Gamescom, we can happily announce that the PlayStation 4 will allow streaming through either uStream or Twitch.tv.
We’re now live with our PlayStation Gamescon 2013 live blog. You can check out some of our previous predictions and hopes from the press conference. Live blog awaits you, after the jump.
Here at SonyRumors, we’re excited for Gamescom. We’re so excited we’re doing a live-blog of Sony’s PlayStation media briefing this morning! But before the conference officially kicks off, we thought we’d give you our educated guesses, predictions, and a few hopeful wishes for what we’ll see tomorrow at Koelnmesse in Cologne.
And cats. Yep.
the couple that plays together, stays together
My husband and I both are pretty avid gamers. He was a console gamer almost exclusively during his teenage years, and until we met in 2008 he hadn’t really played a console since the SNES. However, after getting a PS3 when we moved in together, he hasn’t really looked back. He started off with Uncharted 2, and since then has played the Assassin’s Creed series, all the adventures of Kratos, and everything in between. Now, me … well, I’ve had consoles since I was about 7 or 8, and over the years have played dozens and dozens of games.
Now, having two gamers under one roof, with one Playstation and one TV, can be hard. Evenings become a gambling, balancing act on who gets to play first, and for how long, and “OMG why didn’t you charge the friggin’ controllers???”
It isn’t easy. But I’ve got some suggestions as to how to make it a little easier.
It’s been quite apparent from early 2013 that PlayStation is a different company than it was in 2012, let alone the years prior. While the PS3 launch was plauged by a company who was overconfident and cocky of their competitor, the years since have been turbulent as well with odd or lacking advertisement and side projects like the Wonderbook. I should also point out that I believe the idea of the Wonderbook is quite fantastic but that the PS3 hardware, including the PlayStation Eye, were not adequate for the platform. Still, it’s also hard to ignore that things have been steadily improving for the brand. While the PS Vita has not caught on with consumers, there are many things Sony did right during launch. Abundant supply, very powerful specs, lower price point that many anticipated (though still too high for what consumers wanted), and an array of games that were not just PS3 ports. The PS3 has also been a savior for gamers who don’t want just another CoD game with more exclusives each year while it seems like Microsoft stopped developing games for the Xbox 360 nearly two years ago.
With the PS3 now edging the Xbox 360 in sales, despite still costing more and having been out for one less year, it seems that now is the time for PlayStation to truly surge ahead of Microsoft in the current gen race and next gen with the PS4 launch.
It’s been another week and another handful of games have been played. This week has been one of those weeks where I can’t seem to stick with one game. Every night this week I’ve felt like playing something of a different genre. I even took a stab at playing Gaucamelee, but that quickly ended in defeat. To top off the indecision, I hadn’t planned on purchasing anything new from the PlayStation Network store until I finished InFamous. That thought was short-lived though, because I just couldn’t resist the nostalgic return of Scrooge McDuck in DuckTales Remastered.
$199 PS Vita available at Best Buy as well
PlayStation 3 is running strong since its unfortunate “$599 US Dollars” introduction to the mass consumer market in 2006. The console has seen two redesigns and a number of price drops, and worldwide sales have evened out with the Xbox 360. But with a baseline 160 GB model for $249, the PS3 is still not something one would consider ‘cheap.’ But for those still on the fence about getting a PS3 this late in the console cycle, with the release of the PS4 just around the corner, would another $50 sound good to you?
The UK PlayStation Blog has posted a preview of Sony’s plans for Gamescom, the annual gaming expo in Cologne, Germany. The PlayStation media briefing will be held on Tuesday August 20 at 6pm BST (1pm Eastern / 10am Pacific), where they will be sharing “our release plans for PlayStation 4, as well as updates on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita.”
Telltale’s The Walking Dead PS Vita bundle also out next week
The PlayStation Vita is a great handheld. The PlayStation Vita is also an expensive handheld. At US $249.99 for the base WiFi model, it’s significantly more expensive than its primary rival, the Nintendo 3DS. While Nintendo’s latest on-the-go gaming solution continues to sell well–it has been the best-selling video game console for the past three months, surpassing even the Xbox 360 in the United States–the Vita has struggled at the back of the pack. The Vita carries a significant buy-in price, when you factor the console itself, the cost of games, and the almost prohibitively expensive proprietary memory cards required to play one of those games.
While Japan has cut the price of the Vita, and released software that’s spiked interest and driven sales of the device, there has been no such price cut in the West. But for at least one retailer, that’s about to change. Gamechup last week reported on a Target mailer being sent to customers for the week of August 18-24, which can be seen here:
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