Scott
10-18-2007, 10:41 PM
Sony is working on plans to distribute video and music via the PlayStation Network, its online games system, in a significant step in transforming the PlayStation 3 games console into a multimedia device capable of networking with other Sony hardware.
Expanding the network to offer downloadable entertainment such as films and television episodes would also compete more directly with Microsoft?s rival Xbox Live service.
?We are building a software infrastructure to distribute video and music, more particularly video, through the PlayStation Network,? said Sir Howard Stringer, Sony chief executive, during an interview in Moscow. ?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.?
?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,? Sir Howard added.
He gave no timescale for the service, but said: ?We won't know how effective [the effort] is until early next year.?
Sony has unveiled a device allowing the PS3 to act as a digital TV tuner and recorder, and software enabling PSP handheld users to make video and voice calls, but these applications can only be used in the UK and some European markets.
PlayStation Network is a bid by Sony to further ignite demand for its poor-selling PS3 console, which has been overtaken by Nintendo?s Wii in global sales.
At the end of September, the Wii had outsold the PS3 three to one in Japan since their respective launch dates, according to data provided by Enterbrain.
Sir Howard told the Financial Times that Sony still expected to hit its sales targets of 11m PS3 consoles this year.
He played down what he called the ?perceived slow start? of PS3, saying it had suffered at its Japanese launch from a shortage of games capable of taking full advantage of its processing power. But the company expects to have 200 games for it by Christmas.
link (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/9b01c66c-7b3b-11dc-8c53-0000779fd2ac,stream=FTSynd,Authorised=false.html?_ i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F9b0 1c66c-7b3b-11dc-8c53-0000779fd2ac%2Cstream%3DFTSynd%2Cs01%3D1.html)
What about the games Sony :laugh:
Expanding the network to offer downloadable entertainment such as films and television episodes would also compete more directly with Microsoft?s rival Xbox Live service.
?We are building a software infrastructure to distribute video and music, more particularly video, through the PlayStation Network,? said Sir Howard Stringer, Sony chief executive, during an interview in Moscow. ?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.?
?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,? Sir Howard added.
He gave no timescale for the service, but said: ?We won't know how effective [the effort] is until early next year.?
Sony has unveiled a device allowing the PS3 to act as a digital TV tuner and recorder, and software enabling PSP handheld users to make video and voice calls, but these applications can only be used in the UK and some European markets.
PlayStation Network is a bid by Sony to further ignite demand for its poor-selling PS3 console, which has been overtaken by Nintendo?s Wii in global sales.
At the end of September, the Wii had outsold the PS3 three to one in Japan since their respective launch dates, according to data provided by Enterbrain.
Sir Howard told the Financial Times that Sony still expected to hit its sales targets of 11m PS3 consoles this year.
He played down what he called the ?perceived slow start? of PS3, saying it had suffered at its Japanese launch from a shortage of games capable of taking full advantage of its processing power. But the company expects to have 200 games for it by Christmas.
link (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/9b01c66c-7b3b-11dc-8c53-0000779fd2ac,stream=FTSynd,Authorised=false.html?_ i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F9b0 1c66c-7b3b-11dc-8c53-0000779fd2ac%2Cstream%3DFTSynd%2Cs01%3D1.html)
What about the games Sony :laugh: