Grandia
07-05-2005, 01:46 AM
http://www.pro-g.co.uk/news/nid/985/
Highlights:
"I feel proud that E3 went well from the presentations that they did", said Reeves only minutes after delivering his (somewhat controversial) keynote at the industry conference. "I feel very happy about that, but I told the troops: OK now we go underground. The PS3 goes underground until it comes out next year."
Connecting the PSP to the PS3 through a wireless connection, you would imagine, will provide developers with some very promising avenues for unique gameplay, a bit like what Nintendo tried to achieve with the GameCube and GBA.
"We will want to do it that way where it is possible. On PSP we don't have a video out because of the movie industry. Where that is not practical we would not do it. We would only do it where it satisfies digital rights management. It has to be legal."
Although online gaming is very much a buzzword around the industry right now, with MMOs on PC selling bucket loads and Xbox Live attracting increasing subscribers, Sony were quiet about their plans for the PS3's online capabilities. Reeves, too, is coy on the subject: "It was revealed at E3 and it was called Playstation Network. It will be introduced as [the] PS3 is. It's not just online, it's a whole community and it embraces other non-game content as well."
Perhaps Sony's reluctance to dive straight onto the online bandwagon Microsoft have so vocally proclaimed is because their hearts are simply not in it. Reeves is personally cautious about online gaming's commercial potential as it stands at the moment and doesn't think it is as important as Microsoft says it is.
"I think that gaming is basically sociable. People want to see who they're playing with. And if you really think about it online gaming is to some extent anonymous - you're using a handle. When we get to the point when you can actually see who you're playing against, and it really comes alive and you can hear their voices as if you're in an auditorium, and it gets simpler, and there are games that are written specifically for online gaming, then we will start to see it, but we have not reached that. We're at kind of 0.5. We've got to get to 2 before online gaming really takes off."
[QUOTE]Online gaming is of course, still very much a hardcore passion. As everyone scrambles for the hearts and minds of the casual gamer, it's all about making online gaming compelling for those who don't normally play games in the first place. It's this obstacle that Reeves sees as problematic.
"The psyche is I come back from the pub or wherever and you want to play with the guys. Some people say I want to go online, but more people actually want to see people's faces and feel the enjoyment and that type of thing."
Indeed, Reeves doesn't see the step up from 0.5 to 2 on the next generation hardware at all. "It will be the next one after I think."
Tired as Reeves might be with constant next-generation pokes, hopeful launch date punts and misguided pricing queries, we couldn't help but have a go ourselves. As we suspected, the gems every gamer that considers themselves hardcore wants to know aren't forthcoming.
"We don't say we target them (trade shows) but we say we have plenty of opportunity where we can go and show the next demo, give more details, maybe give more accurate launch dates and things like that. But that's not my responsibility, that's what Tokyo will manage."
Will we learn more about PS3 this year?
"You will do and I think you'll pick most of it up from the net. A lot of will be speculation."
I think he really made a lot of sense. Also, I think he just confirmed that Sony's online service would be called PlayStation Network?
Highlights:
"I feel proud that E3 went well from the presentations that they did", said Reeves only minutes after delivering his (somewhat controversial) keynote at the industry conference. "I feel very happy about that, but I told the troops: OK now we go underground. The PS3 goes underground until it comes out next year."
Connecting the PSP to the PS3 through a wireless connection, you would imagine, will provide developers with some very promising avenues for unique gameplay, a bit like what Nintendo tried to achieve with the GameCube and GBA.
"We will want to do it that way where it is possible. On PSP we don't have a video out because of the movie industry. Where that is not practical we would not do it. We would only do it where it satisfies digital rights management. It has to be legal."
Although online gaming is very much a buzzword around the industry right now, with MMOs on PC selling bucket loads and Xbox Live attracting increasing subscribers, Sony were quiet about their plans for the PS3's online capabilities. Reeves, too, is coy on the subject: "It was revealed at E3 and it was called Playstation Network. It will be introduced as [the] PS3 is. It's not just online, it's a whole community and it embraces other non-game content as well."
Perhaps Sony's reluctance to dive straight onto the online bandwagon Microsoft have so vocally proclaimed is because their hearts are simply not in it. Reeves is personally cautious about online gaming's commercial potential as it stands at the moment and doesn't think it is as important as Microsoft says it is.
"I think that gaming is basically sociable. People want to see who they're playing with. And if you really think about it online gaming is to some extent anonymous - you're using a handle. When we get to the point when you can actually see who you're playing against, and it really comes alive and you can hear their voices as if you're in an auditorium, and it gets simpler, and there are games that are written specifically for online gaming, then we will start to see it, but we have not reached that. We're at kind of 0.5. We've got to get to 2 before online gaming really takes off."
[QUOTE]Online gaming is of course, still very much a hardcore passion. As everyone scrambles for the hearts and minds of the casual gamer, it's all about making online gaming compelling for those who don't normally play games in the first place. It's this obstacle that Reeves sees as problematic.
"The psyche is I come back from the pub or wherever and you want to play with the guys. Some people say I want to go online, but more people actually want to see people's faces and feel the enjoyment and that type of thing."
Indeed, Reeves doesn't see the step up from 0.5 to 2 on the next generation hardware at all. "It will be the next one after I think."
Tired as Reeves might be with constant next-generation pokes, hopeful launch date punts and misguided pricing queries, we couldn't help but have a go ourselves. As we suspected, the gems every gamer that considers themselves hardcore wants to know aren't forthcoming.
"We don't say we target them (trade shows) but we say we have plenty of opportunity where we can go and show the next demo, give more details, maybe give more accurate launch dates and things like that. But that's not my responsibility, that's what Tokyo will manage."
Will we learn more about PS3 this year?
"You will do and I think you'll pick most of it up from the net. A lot of will be speculation."
I think he really made a lot of sense. Also, I think he just confirmed that Sony's online service would be called PlayStation Network?