Life with PlayStation in pictures and video
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Jun 27th 2008 4:32AM
posted Jun 27th 2008 4:32AM
Pictures and video of Sony's new Life with PlayStation service have finally made their way across the Intertubes after yesterday's unveiling in Tokyo. It's pretty much exactly as you'd expect news and weather to be presented on a Cell-powered globe metaphor. Another snap and video courtesy of Digital World Tokyo after the break.
[Via Impress and PS3 Fanboy]
[Via Impress and PS3 Fanboy]
With these cool new features plus in game XMB confirmed and coming as well as the newly announced movie download service, I'd say its a exciting time to own a Playstation 3.
Not to mention Metal Gear Solid 4!
This thing is so sexual. If only I had $600 to blow... :(
600? Where do you live? Its been 399 for ages.
Yep, looks like NASA's World Wind app with a news plug in.
Integrated World Wind or Google Earth would be a fantastic feature.
Dunno why people complain that this is a usless thing, if this useless dont use it ;)..
Cant hurt to add as many features to one thing as possible can it?
...RealPlayer
Poor old xbox 360... getting destroyed in every direction now. I want to buy a PS3 but it is just so ugly. Sony, hurry up with a redesign (no chrome please).
"Poor old xbox 360... getting destroyed in every direction now"
Except for the games.
UGLY....you got bad eyes????
What, like MGS4? Oh wait, it doesn't have that. I am sure it has 100 or so doom-clones though.
haha PS3 uglie than the XBox?.. man.. you must have awfull taste in women. Your lady has 3 eyes and full facial hair I bet.
@bob stop crying and ebay yourself a 20gb with no chrome.
I never said it was uglier than the xbox.
Cool a no chrome version, I didn't know about that thanks!
@Bob, yeah, because Gears of War, Bioshock, and Halo 3 are all just Doom clones.
Come to think of it, since Doom was actually a pretty revolutionary game for it's time, I'm not even sure a Doom clone is all that bad. After all, I enjoyed Hexen and Heretic and Quake, all of which are basically Doom clones.
Those games are better on the PC. I don't know how anyone plays a FPS with a console controller.
MGS4, 10/10 scores, not on 360 or PC. They even say GTA4 is better on PS3. There are even more of those potentially amazing games coming out for PS3 this year. Get a PS3 if you want the best games. Get a 360 if you want 100+ average games. In fact, as 360 will soon be the platform with the least marketshare, people won't even develop for it any more.
I think you were being extremely nice when you said PS3 is ugly.
Now I know why the army has ordered 300 PS3,
"as you see general we can take over the world from this point, and here snake (MGS4) will be hiding in a box or a barrel and will infiltrate the terrorists..."
OMG :O that is sooo true lol
i guess its not only the MGS fans that like MGS4 xD
cool...
Nyu Yoku . 23 Degrees
Washinton - 23 Degrees
looks like Google Earth
Is that the new name for the Earth these days?
"This just in: Google has just sued the Earth for patent infringement on Google Earth. Details at 11."
I wouldn't mind integration with Google Earth. Just imagine soaring across the landscape with live simulated weather conditions, time of day, and terrain mapping. Putting all the PS3s power to work would be fantastic with the additional news feeds.
Isn't this the exact same thing that the Wii has been doing for years?
Yes, it looks exactly the same (not in HD...) in the News channel of the Wii.
You can turn the globe and get the news of the country you are flying over.
for years?!?
How long have you been Wiiing?
Years?!
Time Troll!
Ignoring the factually incorrect "years" claim, Nintendo stole it from PC/Mac so what's your point?
But then again, Nintendo fans are like Apple fans in that they like to change history for them. You know, just like claiming Nintendo invented the Wiimote (it was actually pitched to Nintendo by two independent companies, a third had been working on the same thing for years, and another game company had prototyped it in about 1999).
Who cares that Xbox 360 has a vastly superior game library? Look! Pretty globes!
HAH! Halo? That's all you got. The 360 has peaked. All downhill from here. I know you Xbox fanboys are getting nervous. It's ok, we'll welcome you over here on the real gaming console when you realize your mistake. Don't forget to bring your add-on HD-DVD drive...oh wait....
Here's some therapy for you--
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHdozBNxPdQ
See ya soon!
360 has peaked? I think not. What about the coming of Gears of War 2, Banjo Kazooie, Dead Space, ABP, and Ninja Gaiden 2. I rest my case.
So basically they saw that the wii did it and said we must do this also.
Dare I say a serious competitor to Google Earth?
Now if they'd only let you zoom into the map and assume the role of a freedom fighter waging war in the Middle East...
of corse
right when i get rid of my PS3
they roll out all the new features
UGHHH =/
Same here.. i miss my ps3 already
hahaha... it looks like they took about 3 existing features and rolled them into one:
1) That Globe is from the music player
2) The close up of the US is from Folding @ Home
3) The information is obviously coming from the internet
Still look interesting...
Err, that globe isn't from the music player. As you can see, it has clouds/weather effects as well as city lights representing the major cities. And while I haven't seen it in real life, I'd like to think this globe is probably more detailed than the one in the music player.
LOL i love it when anyone mentions xbox they auto get low ranked. Silly people, there aren't any other options cept the ps3
Well, people who are interested in the ps3 are the ones looking at it. I'm thinking I might buy a ps3 in the future, so I've clicked on the article. So it's more natural selection that bias, people who prefer the virtues of this machine to others will be reading.
Now, trolls and reactionaries of any kind will land on any article mentioning a console (or whatever their preferred battleground) upon a keyword in the title. For instance, troll du jour 'clak' will go on any article mentioning an OS and vomit on it.
You know what would be really funny. If every time you wanted to check the weather you'd have to load the globe and rotate to your city.
This is a bit of an overkill for weather really - just give me a number and a nice picture approximating cloud level and I'm good to go.
i'm sure that there will be a default location setting... just like google earth
The first pic is like "take that, weather channel!"
I do expect Microsoft will have a response to Sony's current barrage of promise. Difference is they'll have a launch date. They should at the very least, give weather and news through xbox live silver.
And why does everything have to have nauseating, almost cultish, names? "Playstation Home" "Life with Playstation"? That advert show beginning with Q? They need to be reaching out to people like me who don't want it to be "the centre of their entertainment lives."
Interesting...I guess for free you can't complain. Sony is attempting to help out the geographically illiterate. To me this is resources taken away from Home and improving the online experience.
BTW I'd like to congratulate the fan boys and girls on five years of pointless arguing. Their persistence has greatly improved the lives of all forum and blog readers and defended the reputations of multi-billion dollar corporations with no means of defending themselves.
sony is a big company and won't run out of resources by making a realtime rss channel-- and from what I have seen home is just running bugfixes- at least i sure do hope so - I am really wanting to get my hands on it
WTF is he saying? Why is a Japanese/Asian guy giving the presentation? Sony is American. They've been American since they came out w/ the walkman.
Akio Morita became Adam Moore in 1979 on the day they released the Walkman, you're right!
SN your a jackass
Sony was founded by 2 japanese people and thus sony is a japanese company
you are either a ignorant white texas horse humping dirst stain or you are stupid from your mum dropping you on your head when you was a baby. PLz do your research before you make yourself look like a complete idiot
SN your a fool
Sony was founded by 2 japanese people and thus sony is a japanese
company
you are either a ignorant white texas dirt stain or
you are stupid from your mum dropping you on your head when you was a
baby. PLz do your research before you make yourself look like a
complete idiot
Sounds pretty cool... Can't wait to try it... I love how it's free... M$ would probably charge for something like this, which is kinda dumb because I can't see me buying this over a small game... **I wrote this through using the web browser on my PS3 :P I need to get a keyboard lol
I want it to come out now!