Modern Gaming Hobbyist

At last year’s E3, the mainstay of the Sony conference was the Playstation 3 and the hardware encased in it. During the introduction of this year’s E3, the show focused on the Playstation history. From a historical standpoint, the Playstation series has always been one to deliver, while pushing the limits, all based on a ten-year plan. The Playstation 3’s ten-year plan is just starting up. Since last year’s conference was all about the powerhouse that is the PS3, E3 ’08 was all about the software, bringing more titles and exclusives that expand the range of genres that Sony’s PS3 covers.

The collection of titles being released within the following year is vast to say the least. However, this is normal for consoles these days; the true power lies in exclusive games and content. Sony has 23 titles coming exclusively to Playstation platforms; 10 coming out on blu-ray disc. Titles like LittleBig Planet, Socom: Confrontation, Killzone 2, Resistance 2, and Infamous were shown off in short trailers revealing just a bit more than we have seen in the past. These short trailers were amazing though, and speak wonders of what is in store for PS3, within the next year or so.

To finish the exhibit of software titles, a tiny trailer of God of War III was shown to give fans something to drool over. The conference then took a turn for the future of gaming: MMO console gaming. Playstation plans to bring more players to one online community in titles like DC Universe Online, an RPG in which players create their own superhero or villain to wreck havoc with, The Agency, an espionage-based RPG where you can create your own special agent, and MAG, a 256-player “Massive Action Game” which utilizes squad-based tactics in an immense war situation. These games sound extremely promising for Playstation 3’s future.

Other topics of Sony’s E3 conference were PSP integration with the PS3, as well as receiving mostly all of their titles, PS2 bundle packs for the fall, since the PS2 is still the best selling Sony platform, and additions to the PSN, such as Home and more importantly movies to the store, available this week which is a late but welcome addition to Playstation.