Comic-Con News: PSP As A PS3 Remote, New Firmware On Thursday

ComicConThe San Diego Comic-Con is slowly becoming an important exhibition location for the video game industry as well – this year, lots of important companies are showing their games and make significant announcements. One of them is Sony, who have been talking quite a bit about the Playstation Portable’s future. While none of the things mentioned are particularly surprising, all in all the news should make almost every PSP owner look forward to the next half of 2006.

First of all, Sony announced that the Playstation 3 will ship with features to interact with the PSP. Concrete details about the interaction between the two devices have yet to be revealed but it was said that the PSP will function as a remote control for the PS3. Sega and Nintendo have experimented with handheld-console interconnectivity before, we’ll see soon how Sony handles this.

Sony’s speaker also mentioned that the new firmware, due on Thursday, July 27th, will include a demo of World Tour Soccer 2, to promote the game’s launch. Amongst other new features, the new firmware will add RSS Video feed support to the Web Browser.  Sony is also trying to establish more WiFi hotspots to obtain downloadable content and make use of the PSP’s WiFi features.

A bit of bad news, Sony announced there are no plans for an improved text-input system, or an external keyboard add-on.

But at least they’re trying to beef up the multimedia component of the PSP. Video-out is being worked on, together with a portal to provide downloadable videos. Movie trailers will be heading to UMD, most probably to be packaged alongside other software.
And let’s not forget the guys who actually use their PSP for gaming, as Sony wants them to look forward to hits like Ratchet & Clank, Fireteam Bravo 2 and Gangs of London, which are all shaping up nicely to complement the PSP’s current range of great titles.

Of course, many of our readers will be wondering how this new firmware will fit in to the current age of Firmware emulation and homebrew. As always, only time will tell.

Thanks to everyone who sent this in!

Via IGN

ComicConThe San Diego Comic-Con is slowly becoming an important exhibition location for the video game industry as well – this year, lots of important companies are showing their games and make significant announcements. One of them is Sony, who have been talking quite a bit about the Playstation Portable’s future. While none of the things mentioned are particularly surprising, all in all the news should make almost every PSP owner look forward to the next half of 2006.

First of all, Sony announced that the Playstation 3 will ship with features to interact with the PSP. Concrete details about the interaction between the two devices have yet to be revealed but it was said that the PSP will function as a remote control for the PS3. Sega and Nintendo have experimented with handheld-console interconnectivity before, we’ll see soon how Sony handles this.

Sony’s speaker also mentioned that the new firmware, due on Thursday, July 27th, will include a demo of World Tour Soccer 2, to promote the game’s launch. Amongst other new features, the new firmware will add RSS Video feed support to the Web Browser.  Sony is also trying to establish more WiFi hotspots to obtain downloadable content and make use of the PSP’s WiFi features.

A bit of bad news, Sony announced there are no plans for an improved text-input system, or an external keyboard add-on.

But at least they’re trying to beef up the multimedia component of the PSP. Video-out is being worked on, together with a portal to provide downloadable videos. Movie trailers will be heading to UMD, most probably to be packaged alongside other software.
And let’s not forget the guys who actually use their PSP for gaming, as Sony wants them to look forward to hits like Ratchet & Clank, Fireteam Bravo 2 and Gangs of London, which are all shaping up nicely to complement the PSP’s current range of great titles.

Of course, many of our readers will be wondering how this new firmware will fit in to the current age of Firmware emulation and homebrew. As always, only time will tell.

Thanks to everyone who sent this in!

Via IGN

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