For those of you who missed out on the hour and a half of announcements, excitement and PR fromSony, here is a handy bullet-point summary. The statistics and PR bluster have been intentionally left out, go somewhere else to see developers blabbing about how they're starting to get used to programming for the PS3 or how many PS3, PS2 and PSPs sell per year.
-Resistance 2 will have 8 player online coop, 60 player online competitive modes and is scheduled for a November 2008 release
-Playstation 3 Greatest Hits will arrive late 2008 at a $29.99 (US) price point, and will include Resistance, Motorstorm, Warhawk, Call of Duty 3, Fight Night, Need for Speed Carbon, Rainbow Six Vegas, Assassin's Creed, The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, and Ninja Gaiden Sigma
-Playstation 2 development will continue with games like NCAA Football 09, Tiger Woods Golf 09, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Warriors Orochi 2, Singstar Pop 2, Yakuza 2, Madden XX and Mercenaries 2
-The Buzz series will be coming to PSP and PS3 later this year
-A new Playstation 2 bundle including the PS2, Lego Batman and a DVD of The Justice League: New Frontiers will be available in the fall for $149.99 (US)
-Playstation Network will feature a new service that will allow downloading of full length TV shows and movies. The media content partners involved with this service include Sony Pictures, Fox Film & Television, MGM Studios, Lionsgate, Warner, Disney, Paramount, Turner Entertainment and Funimation.
-TV shows on the new service will be available in standard and hig definition and will start at $1.99 (US) per episode and movie prices will range from $2.99 to $5.99 for rentals and from $9.99 to $14.99 for purchases. All downloaded content through this service will be transferable to the PSP
-A new PSP entertainment pack including a silver PSP, Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters, and National Treasure 2, Book of Secrets, a 1Gb memory stick and a voucher for Echochrome will be available in fall
-A new game in the Resistance series, Resistance: Retribution, has been announced for the PSP and is scheduled for a spring 2009 release.
-An 80Gb version of the Playstation 3 will be available for purchase starting in September, it will have the same functionality as the current 40Gb Playstation 3
-God of War 3 "announced" exclusively for Playstation 3
-infamous, an open-world superhero-ish game, will be coming exclusively to Playstation 3
-A multiplayer action game under the working title MAG, (Massive Action Game), has been announced exclusively for the Playstation 3 that will involve up to 256 player multiplayer split into 8-player squads and will involve RPG style character growth
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