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Sony Japan and America working on a combined effort to distribute movies and music across PlayStation platforms...
Stagnant sales of the PlayStation3 have forced Sony to shift its focus towards the delivery of music and movies, according to reports from the Financial Times today.
Sir Howard Stringer, Sony chairman and chief executive officer, said: "We are building a software infrastructure to distribute video and music, more particularly video, through the PlayStation Network," and continued, "That is a Japanese and American combined effort to build a platform around a common software architecture to distribute video via the PlayStation Network into the [PSP handhelds] and beyond."
Before commenting further on the future of PlayStation connectivity: "We are trying to get our devices to talk to each other efficiently. PlayStation Network should migrate from gadget to gadget. But initially it starts with PlayStation devices and then to TV and beyond. That's the goal."
Having previously talked about such a connected vision for the future of PS3 and PSP the announcement comes as little surprise, even though TVG feels the search for the all-conquering home entertainment box is spookily similar to the doomed "multimedia" concept during the 90s - SEGA MegaCD, Philips CD-i, Amiga CD32, 3DO??? Given previous announcements regarding a UK partnership with Sky Broadcasting video-on-demand service for the PSP, Sony's intent to deliver this option hardly seems surprising and should hopefully be implemented with greater success than the staggered approach adopted by Microsoft - exactly when Video Marketplace arrives in Europe is anybody's guess at present.
Additionally, speaking to the Financial Times, Sir Howard claims that Sony is standing by targets of 11m global PS3 sales this year.
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Added:Sat 24th Oct 2009 22:58, Post No: 757
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Added:Sat 24th Oct 2009 22:56, Post No: 756
This post need to die so why don't you all shut the fack up and move on with life. the person who made this post has no life. He could be playing his game getting trophies or achivments. or you can get laid for once in a life time instead of posting stupied as sheet
Added:Sat 24th Oct 2009 22:56, Post No: 756
This post need to die so why don't you all shut the [#@!?] up and move on with life. the person who made this post has no life. He could be playing his game getting trophies or achivments. or you can get laid for once in a life time instead of posting stupied[#@!?][#@!?].
Added:Sun 27th Sep 2009 11:09, Post No: 755
but people have come to accept the rrod its been happening for years now unlike the yellow light of death thats not because of unreliable parts but due to a firmware update, is this an indication that sony had tried to overclock the ps3 and may have had a stable overclock but releasing a firmware update with the overclock included may have caused the trapped gas in the circuit boards.
Added:Sun 27th Sep 2009 03:42, Post No: 754
Actually we can still complain about the RROD because the xbox has a 54 percent failure rate compared to the PS3's 14.7
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Added:Mon 21st Sep 2009 18:54, Post No: 753
good point, but who's to say the complaints wont keep coming in? could easily be a majour fault in the system.
but i aint gettin called a fanboy again so ill stick with ur comment =) lets just hope sony can address the problem like microsoft did with the enw motherboards they were using
Added:Mon 21st Sep 2009 01:40, Post No: 752
It's really a low failure rate when compared to Xbox's 45% failure rate in the earlier generations of systems.
A .5% deficiant rate is quite low and seems an acceptable rate for any product. It seems that if Sony can compensate these very few failures with replacement systems ect. then this would be a very small problem.
Added:Sun 20th Sep 2009 20:26, Post No: 751
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Added:Sat 19th Sep 2009 15:24, Post No: 749
hahaha PS3 has the "YROD" XD hehehe now none of yas can complain about the "RROD" =P
Added:Sat 19th Sep 2009 11:21, Post No: 748
736 i mean, sorry my bad