Sony pumps life into PS Vita, Move controller

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The Japanese console maker indicated Monday it could be years before it comes down program new version of the company's PlayStation. But in the world's biggest computer game expo, E3, it announced plenty to help keep gamers busy this coming holidays.
Sony unveiled plans for a second-screen function for that Vita that keeps it in step with Nintendo's new tablet-controller-equipped console, Wii U. Furthermore , it presented a Harry Potter-inspired book game called "Wonderbook: Book of Spells" that turns the Move motion controller into a magic wand.
Jack Tretton, the president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America, suggested it can be other years before a different PlayStation console is due. He told a packed Chicago Memorial Sports Arena that Sony's 6-year-old machine "continues to shatter expectations" and named it "the industry's best palate" for game-makers.
"Time for the original PlayStation we always thought in 10-year product life cycles," he was quoted saying within an interview using the Associated Press after Sony's E3 news conference. "I believe you're seeing those generations be longer and longer since the technology is great, it's difficult to surpass it."
Some games did seem to defy expectations even on the aging console.
"Beyond," which Sony showcased to inaugurate its 75-minute presentation, depicts "Juno" star Ellen Page in additional authentic animated acting scenes than were seen in its 2010 predecessor, "Heavy Rain," which was also from game studio Quantic Dream.
Sony also demonstrated a raft of "first-person shooter" games which were shockingly violent but may please hard-core gamers, including "The Last of Us" by studio Naughty Dog.
"Technically, there's some really impressive stuff," said John Davison, v . p . of programming for GameSpot.com. "We're seeing all publishers really stretching out this generation of hardware."
Film-game industry is planning to reverse a five-month slump in U.S. sales dragged down usually by too little new hardware.
Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s Wii is several years old. Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 console is 6. Only Nintendo is arriving out once you get your console this coming year.
The 3 console makers sought make use of cellular devices with another screen tandem using consoles.
Sony unveiled offers bolster the Vita's use with Ps3 consoles by using its front and back touch screens and giving different players different perspectives from the same game. New game "PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale" allows PS Vita players to fight Ps3 players over the Internet in real time.
Sony has sold 1.8 million PS Vitas worldwide since handheld premiered in December in Japan and February in The usa. That's relatively small when it comes to there are sixty five million PlayStation 3s on this planet and 13 million Move controllers sold.
"We recognize that it's a marathon rather than a sprint," Tretton said. "I'll pile up our success against other 4-month-old platforms."
Using second screen with a controller mimics plans by Nintendo Co. Ltd. to trade a tablet-like touchscreen controller which consists of Wii U, and that is required to launch later this coming year.
Additionally , it resembles Microsoft Corp.'s SmartGlass feature, unveiled earlier Monday, helping to make use of smartphones to regulate video content.http://www.vdealbox.com
Sony also announced that Taiwan's HTC is definitely the first smartphone maker to use its newly named PlayStation Mobile platform for Android-based games.
Sony's dark horse announcement was its partnership with author J.K. Rowling.
"Wonderbook: Book of Spells" turns its PlayStation Move motion controller right magic wand and has a book of spells, presented as if authored by fictional spellbook writer Miranda Goshawk over 220 years ago. Gamers wave the wand in prescribed patterns like they're a Hogwarts student enroute to transforming into a witch or wizard and figure out how to cast spells that make fire, unlock gates and pass across new stories published by Rowling.
"Wonderbook: Book of Spells would be the closest a Muggle will come to a real spellbook," Rowling said within a statement.
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