Phil Harrisons GDC Keynote details

[wraggster]

Via Neoseeker comes leaked details of Phil Harrisons GDC Speech:

Details from Phil Harrison- Sony Computer Worldwide Studios
Keynote at GDC March 7th 2007:

Anouncements:

Firmware update available on the 8th for North America/Japan and Asia. European PS3's will be preloaded with this latest update.

Features of this latest firmware include:

More refined PS Store frontend
Playstation Network integrity enhanced
Wallpapers from pictures
Ability to change background colours
Sony Connect Store for music and movies added to the PS Store. Hundreds of trailers/full films/song videos and mps3's available for download.
Playstation Card option in PS Store enabled.
Playstation Lifestyle- Similar to my space/youtube. User generated content and experiences are the key.
+ more.

Removal of Emotion Engine chips in PS3's in NA and Japan to follow in April. Reason for this is to reduce costs and focus on enhanced opportunities via software. Benefits include the ability to upscale selected PSone/PS2 games to 1080i/720p.

Lots of development talk.
Release dates for key games. Warhawk in June/July 2007. Heavenly Sword delayed. Killzone and MGS4 in late 2007.

New content on PS Store available on the 8th:

Tekken 6 trailer
Lair demo & trailer
Rainbow Six Vegas demo
EA: Skate trailer
Battlefield Bad Company trailer
Warhawk demo
Virtua Fighter 5 demo
Virtua Tennis 3 demo & trailer
GRAW 2: trailer
Mortal Kombat 2 game
Killzone trailer

Killzone demo for May.

More details. Stay tuned on the 7th.

[thesandman]

well this is good news, and i'm psyched for the ps store updates

[Buddy4point0]

is this firmware update and stuff for psp or ps3?
cause if its ps3 shouldnt it be in the ps3 forum?

[iniquitous_beast]

Pity we americans will be losing our Emotion Engines soon as well. I forsee 1st generation ps3's selling for a pretty penny on Ebay soon enough.

[Shadowblind]

yeah we wish.

Everywhere I go, to school or elsewhere, I hear people saying "oh how I want a PS3 so much screw the xbox and wii oh ps3 you are so great!"

[iniquitous_beast]

Fanboys collect in pockets, you could say. They also convert others who are near them. That's why some people only hear of hype for the ps3 in their schools, while other people only hear about how great the wii/360 is in their areas. Basically, people will sing praises for whatever the most charismatic member of their group supports.