Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) carried through (15) the PlayStation Business today Briefing 2006, a presentation directed toward desenvolvedores of games and partners of the industry of videogames, and confirmed that the launching PlayStation 3 will be delayed, as notified for the Japanese periodical Nihon Keizai. Now, the console of new generation of Sony will be launched in the beginning of November, simultaneously in the main regions of the world.
The accurate date and the price had not been divulged, neither a demonstration in a real or similar machine. The president of the SCE, Ken Kutaragi, said that the reason if must to the delay in the definition of the format of the Blu-Ray media, as the protection anticopy and of copyrights, beyond technologies that could be viable in the future. For the initial planning, the standards would be ready in passed August, but in the March end it will only have to be all definite one. Thus, PlayStation 3 will have to appear in U.S.A., Canada, Europe, Asia and Japan in the beginning of November.
Similar to the model of launching of Xbox 360, will have a small interval of time between the regions, but, in U.S.A., it will have to appear before the Day of Action of Favours, that will be carried through in 23 of November and is a traditionally very strong date for the commerce. The console of new generation of the Microsoft arrived in 22 of November passed in U.S.A., 2 of December of the Europe and in 10 of December in Japan. Sony will have to use the extra time to improve others facetas of the console. The audio video and exit HDMI, used in the TVs modern, will be of last generation (version 1.3), with support for Full HD, or either, resolution of 1080 not-interlaced lines (1080P), and Full Color (48 bits), that it will cover an ample specter of colors.
Of course, TVs conventional and monitorial of computers also will be total compatible with the videogame. Doubts pairaram in that it says respect to the record-rigid one of PlayStation 3. Kutaragi said that it is developing the record-rigid hardware "having as the prerequisite one" and that the producers must create the games in the same way. However, the executive did not affirm categoricamente that the PS3 will come with the plant accessory, whose basic model will be of 60GB. "We want to prevent that models with and without hard-disk coexist", the president said.
The storage device will have capacity to twirl programs that initiate an operational system - boot in the language technique -, as the Linux. The company also said of the service online of the console, that will be developed in set with Sony Online Entertainment, author of "EverQuest", for example. The service will have together beginning with the launching of PlayStation 3, that it will use the open InterNet and it will have applicatory of communication as the lobby and chat of voice. "service basic" will be gratuitous, but Sony not confirmed will have signature paid, as it happens in the Xbox Live, that also has a version without costs, called Silver. During the presentation, Sony said that PlayStation 3 will be "total compatible" with games of 2 PlayStation and PSOne and that these games will twirl in high resolution in the new machine. But, as well as it happens with Xbox 360, the textures will remain in the original resolution, with effect that minimize the few details.
The company made the same declaration when it presented PlayStation 2, but some headings legacies had not functioned, to less at the time. All the games of PlayStation 3 will have to be in Blu-Ray media to prevent the piracy. Moreover, Kutaragi tranquilized the desenvolvedores saying that it has capacity to produce ten record million for month and that the costs of the media are not so high. It said that the records of new generation are a necessity of the market and has potential to establish itself in the market. He seems confident that, with the PS3, the Blu-Ray he will win the Hd-dvd in the fight to be the successor of the current DVD. Sony announced the producers that the applicatory ones of development had gained specifications final and kits will have to be available from June. The package has tools and solutions of software of fifteen companies, as the "Unreal Engine 3" of the Epic Games.
The production of the console, according to data supplied in the event, will be of a million of PlayStation 3 monthly and that in the end of March of 2007 it will have six million available units. In the case of the launching of Xbox 360, the Microsoft did not obtain to follow the search, and so far, almost four months later, assume that about two million units they are in the market. Finally, Kutaragi spoke on the concepts of PlayStation 3, but it affirmed of beforehand that they are utopian. It said that the games now will be in "4D", or either, beyond representing the space, also they will be able to portray the time.
Valley to remember that the engineer said, to the time, who the first PlayStation would have "to be able" of similar the work stations and that the processor of PlayStation 2, the Emotion Engine, would be capable to represent the emotions. "I am anxious to see a new type of game", finished the executive.