High street games shops have been told by Sony that there will be no PS3 pre-owned sections in their stores as it will be illegal for customers to sell any next-gen PlayStation games that they've bought, retail sources have revealed to GamesRadar.

It seems that Sony is planning to adopt a licensing system that will mean gamers won't own the PS3 titles that they've paid money for. Instead, they will only be purchasing the licence to play the game and that the software itself will still be Sony property - meaning that the disc won't be the customer's to sell.

It was a rumor. Thank god. Sony isn't that retarded.

They need more games like Assasins Creed for the PS3
Currently X-box 360 is leading on my list on games I anticipate the most

Assasin's Creed In-Game Shots









They better not screw this game up, it cant be anything short of amazing.

Assassin's Creed guys (Nicholas Cantin and Alex Drouin). It's in Dutch, so translation mine:

OPM: How's your experience with the storage media of the PS3, the HDD and the BluRay disc? And do you have any comparable experience with HD-DVD technology?

M.M.: Our focus is 100% BluRay, so I cannot compare with HD-DVD. I can only say that the new BluRay disc format is truly awesome. The capacity is immense, and the Data Transfer Rate is way beyond what we are used to. And that's really important, because Data Streaming (OPMED: where the console constantly loads new data from disc) is truly the only way to push next-gen games to the limit. The Playstation 3 HDD is something that we have so far given less attention to, because it hasn't been certain all that long yet that it will be standard on every console. Decreasing load-times by copying a part of the game to the HDD is one possibility, though it doesn't matter all that much for a streaming game like ours. But there are tons of other applications, such as the possibility to as it were record your whole game, to be able to watch a replay of it later on. We intend to use the HD optimally, but how, I can't tell yet currently.

Also interesting is this question:

OPM: What do you think about the performance of the graphics chip, the Nvidea RSX?

M.M.: The RSX-chip is also a beast. Not only is it incredibly fast, but just like in the PS2 you can have each Cell-core cooperate with the RSX independently. Other graphics chips also have decent Noraml Mapping- and Shader-capabilities, but RSX adds a lot of additional specialised filters and possibilities, leading to fabulous results in the graphics department. And what is really convenient is that Nvidia has been a market-leader for years, and everyone knows the technology and way of thinking through-and-through. This decreases the learning process considerably.

Famitsu Weekly quizzed gamers in its most recent issue on the thorny subject of which hardware they are most excited about, with the survey throwing up some interesting results. The Wii captured 68.8% of the voted, leaving the nearest platform, the PlayStation 3, way behind with a mere 21%, surprising given Japan's love of all things SCE.

Perhaps one telling factor was the announced price of the new Sony machine. When asked their opinion on the massive price-tag set for the PlayStation 3 a resounding 88.4% of readers said it was set too high

Okay, BKB.

I only report the news, I don't make it up. You have to admit that the news from the Sony camp hasn't been good as of late.

What do we get for $600? RIIIDDGGE RACER!! Real time weapon change!!! Attack the crab's weak spot for MASSIVE DAMAGE!!!

That's cutting edge shit right there!

here is another one Tony.

http://lexluthor.ytmnd.com/

According to Sony, it did not take its cue for including motion-sensing technology in its revised PlayStation 3 controller from Nintendo, so says Sony Europe executive Phil Harrison. In an interview published by German news outlet Spiegel, Harrison refutes claims and the widely held suspicion that the new design looked to directly steal away some of Nintendo's thunder.

"In a way I understand why people say [we copied Nintendo], but it is a little stupid, if you forgive the phrase. When we brought the PlayStation to the market in 1994, we introduced real-time 3D graphics for the first time. When Nintendo launched its N64 in 1996 it also had 3D graphics, did we say, "Nintendo stole our idea?" Of course not. Such innovations become possible because of a combination of technology, cost and manufacture capacities." Though of course, the idea of playing games in 3D had existed for a long time in the arcades. The idea of controlling games with a motion sensor has not. So the analogy is somewhat flawed.

Phil Harrison defends Sony from Nintendo plaguerism claims:



http://news.spong.com/article/10155

Of course, not only is the analogy flawed... it's ludicrous. Sony introduced real-time 3D graphics for the first time? Poo, I say!

Not only were arcade machines displaying full on real-time 3D graphics before the playstation, but so was the PC, the Saturn (which was, in fact, out before the PSX) and even the SNES (Starfox and the Super FX chip preceded it by over a year). And let's not forget that the PSX was put together from designs Nintendo helped create initially as a CD-ROM add-on for the SNES.

Of course, it could also be argued that while Sony were out with a 3D console before Nintendo, it was Nintendo who were the first to realise the capabilities of 3D environments with analogue control. Before Mario 64, the closest thing Sony had to a functioning 3D platformer was the awful Jumping Flash. After Mario 64 revolutionised the genre, Nintendo's template became the industry standard for all 3D adventure games even to this day.

The fact that only Warhawk was compatible with the new pad at E3 (and that the team had only been told a week before to implement motion sensing control into the game) shows Sony up for the lying, no-good idea thieves they are! That they retracted the old boomerang pad around the same time the Wii controller was announced only makes me more enraged at their spin-jobbery!