PlayStation gamers have been pretty well served by an ever-expanding range of titles that can cover everything from sporting simulations to first-person-shooters to complex strategy games and beyond.
But what are the gaming areas that are missing from the current PlayStation gaming landscape? Whilst there have been some pretty notable big-name omissions, there have also been certain genres that definitely could do with the PlayStation treatment.
Sony has announced an official in-ear stereo headset for the PS4, releasing this December. Priced as £77.99/€89.99, the headset will feature AudioShield technology to block out external sounds, and will have up to 15 hours of battery life. The headset will connect straight into the DualShock 4, but can also be used on the PS Vita and other devices with a 3.5mm headphone port.
Yesterday marked 20 years since the original PlayStation was released in North America. The PlayStation came to North America nine months after it was released in Japan (released on December 3, 1994), and at the time it was a stylish, powerful, developer-friendly game console that popularized polygonal 3D graphics and CD playback of games and music.
Not making it to E3 this year? Fear not: London will be getting its own indie gaming alternative, which will coincide with the major LA-based gaming convention. Taking place at the Loading Bar in Soho from June 10th – 13th, EToo will feature over 30 game developers showing off their latest games. PlayStation will be in attendance, with Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us playable, as well as innovative platform adventure Rain and some “surprise extras”.
On September 9th 2010, the PlayStation celebrated its 15th anniversary in North America. Earlier this year, Sony asked 3,000 Nort American PlayStation users what PlayStation means to them. The results of the survey can be found in the infographic below.
Yesterday, PlayStation celebrated its 15th anniversary in North America. Fifteen years ago, the original PlayStation console was introduced, forever altering the entertainment experience for our loyal PlayStation fans and revolutionizing the video game industry.
If you are waiting for the next generation PlayStation console, you have a few years of waiting to do if Sony Worldwide Studios boss, Shuhei Yoshida, is to be believed. In an interview with Develop, Yoshida said that Microsoft and Nintendo will release their next consoles before Sony.
Sony has patented a game demo technology that would initially provide players with a full version of a game, but as time progresses, the game would start to degrade or deteriorate leaving players with the bare bones of the game. The full version could then be restored via an unlock code.
The PlayStation University has discovered that the memory used by the PS3’s operating system has reduced from 120MB to 50MB. This upgrade that Sony implemented via the firmware updates means that an additional 70MB worth of memory has been freed up for developers to utilise.
Today marks 15 years since the PlayStation was first launched in Japan. Although the west didn’t get the hardware until almost a year later, today is the system’s actual birthday. The PlayStation (and PSOne) was the first console to reach the 100 million sales mark, achieving a total of 102.49 million units on March 31, 2005. Sony ceased production of the PlayStation on March 23, 2006, over 11 years after it was first produced.
