PlayStation Meeting 2011 Live Blog

Published on January 27, 2011, by oOgA - Posted in Consoles / Arcade, Featured, SGcafe Reviews 57

PlayStation Meeting 2011, the next Sony press event will be held in Japan today. Will we be getting the anticipated announcement of the PSP2 or just exciting game titles ? What about Xperia Play ? Will the PSP2 be getting 3G ?

We will be blogging about it ...

Date: 27 Jan 2011 Time: 1400hrs (GMT+08h)

[ 15:46 pm ] -

Stay tuned for proper article lineup! We know you are excited for the NGP, PlayStation Suite and more

on a sidenote…PS3 firmware 3.56 is now available for update

Here are the specs for NGP

Quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor,

5-inch touchscreen OLED display with 960 x 544 resolution,

dual analog sticks (not nubs as on the current generation),

3G and WiFi,

GPS,

Front and rear-mounted touchpad,

Accelerometer / gyroscope motion sensing as the PS move

More details coming soon

This is the end of the PlayStation Meeting 2011.

[ 15:45 pm ] -

Kaz Hirai concludes the meeting. Awesome day to be a PSP fan. NGP is coming for sure, this holiday season

[ 15:42 pm ] -

“We believe Call of Duty for NGP will set the bar for the next generation of portable gaming.”

[ 15:42 pm ] -

Sadly..there is no gameplay video or even cutscenes… aww

[ 15:41 pm ] -

Call of Duty is definitely heading for NGP, details will be announced at later time. Tim exits

[ 15:40 pm ] -

CALL OF DUTY ON NGP ?

[ 15:39 pm ] -

Activision’s Philip Earl takes the stage

[ 15:38 pm ] -

Dungeon Defenders on Android, ported to NGP

[ 15:37 pm ] -

That’s right, the Unreal Engine 3. Tim is showing the Citadel demo from the iPhone this time with realtime rendered characters

[ 15:35 pm ] -

Tim Sweeney from Epic Games takes the stage… Make a guess?

[ 15:34 pm ] -

the MGS4 is a tech demo, not an official announcement that the game is heading for NGP

[ 15:32 pm ] -

32000 people around the world watching the stream.. lol

[ 15:31 pm ] -

and fyi..the mgs cutscene was a direct port from PS3 to NGP

[ 15:30 pm ] -

Those cut scenes look great so far but we are hoping it is the same or on par in actual gameplay

[ 15:30 pm ] -

Hideo Kojima from Konami! and of course… Old Snake..

[ 15:27 pm ] -

Kaz Hirai is back

[ 15:24 pm ] -

instead of mashing buttons for combos…you can touch the enemy on the screen.

[ 15:24 pm ] -

If you have been guessing Dynasty Warriors. You guessed it right..

[ 15:23 pm ] -

Graphics look quite awesome…

[ 15:23 pm ] -

Akihiro Suzuki from Tecmo Koei is on the stage now

[ 15:22 pm ] -

and Zombies

[ 15:18 pm ] -

Yakuza …

[ 15:18 pm ] -

Toshihiro Nagoshi from Sega takes the stage

(PROJECT DIVA PLEASE)

[ 15:17 pm ] -

Jun Takeuchi: “Feels like the PS3 with difference in geometry functions. Same shaders and same physics on PS3″

Is that for real ?!

[ 15:16 pm ] -

LOST PLANET 2 ON NGP

[ 15:14 pm ] -

Fyi, Game developers from Capcom, Sega, Tecmo Koei, Konami, Epic, and Activision are in this meeting. You can make a rough guess what is expected

[ 15:13 pm ] -

Holy… Monster Hunter Portable 3 on NGP !! and yes. in download format !!

[ 15:12 pm ] -

Well.. as expcted. He talks about great sales with Monster Hunter

[ 15:11 pm ] -

Jun Takeuchi from Capcom is on stage now

[ 15:09 pm ] -

the keyword “PlayStation Suite Compatible”

[ 15:08 pm ] -

So..now we have the NGP and the PlayStation Suite.

Kaz Hirai talks more about content that works on smartphones will also work on NGP

[ 15:06 pm ] -

Or rather… PSP with PS Move together. ^^

[ 15:06 pm ] -

Gryoscope allows you to control the plane of view by move your NGP around. Think of it as a giant iPhone with features

[ 15:04 pm ] -

What ? Minna no Golf ?

[ 15:03 pm ] -

Augmented Reality time..what is it about ?

[ 15:02 pm ] -

You are also able to rate games on NGP

[ 15:02 pm ] -

We are not sure how this location based entertainment will work outside of Japan.

[ 15:01 pm ] -

Oh..something about the LiveArea UI, it serves as a game gateway for news, DLC and trophies

[ 14:59 pm ] -

It is also able to create a map of where you have been, tracks your location. Oh – privacy trolls. You will whining about this

But hey, it is gonna add some more fun

[ 14:58 pm ] -

Know what are the top games that are being played in your area

[ 14:57 pm ] -

Sony talks about Location based entertainment…

[ 14:56 pm ] -

Trophies on Sony’s new NGP device.. and yes, every game will have their own “Live Area”

[ 14:56 pm ] -

This is the user interface of the “PSP2″, it is known as LiveArea and you are able to access various options and functions through it.

[ 14:52 pm ] -

Again the Sony “NGP” …NGP = Next Generation Portable!

[ 14:50 pm ] -

The user interface, it is all touchscreen

[ 14:46 pm ] -

The front screen is a touchscreen while the back is a touchpad !!

[ 14:44 pm ] -

Wide viewing angles on OLED display.

[ 14:43 pm ] -

5″ OLED display on PSP2 is simply awesome..

[ 14:42 pm ] -

Reality Fighters will be an Augmented Reality title…this is gonna be mindblowing

[ 14:41 pm ] -

Here are some titles expected

1. Killzone

2. Little Big Planet

3. Reality Fighters

4. Resistance

5. Uncharted

WHOAAAA

[ 14:39 pm ] -

Engadget folks has a better closeup of the next-gen device..It looks almost like the PSP. Sorry mockups, you are all wrong

[ 14:38 pm ] -

Shuhei Yoshida, President of worldwide studios talks about potential of new games

[ 14:37 pm ] -

The “PSP2″ is expected to release this holiday season

[ 14:37 pm ] -

here is a photo, credits to the twitter

[ 14:35 pm ] -

IT USES FLASH CARDS FOR GAMES

[ 14:35 pm ] -

“PSP2″ Announced !

5″ OLED Screen

960×544 resolution display

Front and rear Touchpads

Dual analogs sticks

3G & GPS,

electronic compass on 3 axes

[ 14:32 pm ] -

No photos of the “PSP2″ ???

[ 14:32 pm ] -

hmm

[ 14:31 pm ] -

Kaz Hirai highlights 5 core concepts of this next-gen portable -

Revolutionary User Interface.

Social Connectivity.

Location-based Entertainment.

Augmented Reality.

PlayStation Suite Compatibility

[ 14:29 pm ] -

Next Generation Portable..

I feel like laughing

[ 14:29 pm ] -

What is NGP!?

[ 14:29 pm ] -

HERE IT IS !! Here’s the successor to PlayStation Portable, codenamed “NGP.”

[ 14:28 pm ] -

Availability of PlayStation Suite will be end of this calendar year..

[ 14:27 pm ] -

PlayStation Store will of course be available on Google Android devices

[ 14:26 pm ] -

“Hardware-neutral Game Framework” announced too. What is that ?? It is a development framework for mobile titles

[ 14:24 pm ] -

Sony announces a new licensing program “PlayStation Certified”. What? To add on Sony will be emulating first gen PSP titles on these android devices

[ 14:23 pm ] -

PlayStation Suite will make PlayStation content available on Android smartphones and tablets.

[ 14:23 pm ] -

Sony announces PlayStation Suite.

[ 14:22 pm ] -

[ 14:21 pm ] -

Smartphones?? Are we expecting something ?

[ 14:21 pm ] -

Kaz Hirari talks about smartphones and how they had progressed…

[ 14:19 pm ] -

Cross platform, Portable and home (cropped by photo)

[ 14:17 pm ] -

Kaz Hirai talks about “Reality becomes data”, talks about the PS3, the cell processor and also 3D.

[ 14:11 pm ] -

President and Group CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, Kaz Hirai walks the stage. The event begins

[ 14:10 pm ] -

Not quite I guess, it seems like they quoted some minor delays

[ 14:08 pm ] -

It begins… like finally.

[ 14:06 pm ] -

waiting patiently…

[ 13:55 pm ] -

Less than 10 minutes more !!

[ 13:52 pm ] -

Famitsu Japan mentions in their live blog that the event hall for the meeting can hold up to 1000 people.

[ 13:43 pm ] -

[ 13:25 pm ] -

Here is a quote from PlayStation Japan.

2011年1月27日から、PS3®の本体機能を更新するアップデートを開始しました。今回のアップデートでは、システムソフトウェアのバージョンが 3.56になり、次の機能が更新されます。

[ 13:23 pm ] -

We are waiting patiently on what will be announced in PlayStation Meeting 2011. But in the meantime, PS3 firmware 3.56 will be released some time today! (most likely after event). Will it block Geohot’s CFW? What changes will it have ?