E3 2009: Sony keynote presentation wrap-up

Sony’s massive two hour E3 presentation has just ended. We were given a lot of information to digest. At times, it seemed like we were receiving more facts about how well Sony is doing, as opposed to what new games and technology was on the way. Gamertell was live blogging the whole event.

In order to help make things a bit clearer and easier to digest, we’re wrapping up the most essential information from Sony’s press conference. It’s presented in bullet-point form, going from what we saw first to what we saw last.

• 100 new PS2 games will be out this year.
• We saw what looked like demo footage of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves.
• Then, we watched a a brief portion of a 256 person battle in the massive multiplayer online shooter/war game MAG. It’s playable at E3.
• PSP Go was announced. It won’t replace the PSP-3000. It’ll be out October 1, 2009 in North America and Europe, November 1, 2009 in Japan. It’ll cost $249 in the US, and 249 Euros.
• Media Go is replacing the Media Manager
• Sense Me music player playlist creator is headed to the PSP.
• The PSP toolkit price is dropping 80%.
• Video delivery service is coming to the PSP, along with tons of new shows.
• Grand Turismo PSP, with 800 cars, 35 tracks and ad-hoc multiplayer, will be out October 1, 2009.
• The new Metal Gear Solid PSP game is Metal Gear Solid: Peace Maker. It’s set 10 years after Metal Gear Solid 3, is part of the main storyline and will be out in 2010.
• Resident Evil Portable, a PSP exclusive game, is coming in 2010.
• Lots of PSP and PS3 game snippet montages.
• Home’s getting new content.
• Rockstar North is working on another new PS3 exclusive game, Agent. It’s set in the 70′s and focuses on assassins.
• Assassin’s Creed 2‘s demo was shown off. Ezio’s the star, a novice assassin working in Italy during the Renaissance. Leonardo Da Vinci designs his gadgets/weapons. It can connect with Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines (PSP) to unlock new weapons.
• Both Assassin’s Creed 2 and Assassin’s Creed Bloodlines will be out for the 2009 holiday season.
• A nice, long Final Fantasy XIII video, complete with English voice acting, was shown.
• The new massive multiplayer online game Final Fantasy XIV was announced. It’s a PS3 exclusive and will be out in 2010, just like FFXIII.
• Sony’s developing the PlayStation Motion Controller for the PS3, a device that looks like a black wii remote with an orb on top. It’ll be out in 2010, and works with the PlayStation Eye camera.
• Disney Little Big Planet character costumes will be out Fall, 2009.
• Mod Nation Racers, a PS3 exclusive racing game where players can totally customize the characters, carts and tracks, will be out in 2010.
• The Last Guardian, the last game in the Ico and Shadow of the Colossus trilogy appeared in a beautiful trailer. Also a PS3 exclusive.
• Gran Turismo 5 is on the way for the PS3.
• Last was a demo of God of War 3, the last game in that trilogy. It’ll be out in 2010, and the demo with over 20 minutes of gameplay is at E3.

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