PS3 Worldwide launch in November

PS3 News | Full summary of Ken Kutaragi's speech, with a worldwide launch - including Australia and Europe.

Well, Ken Kutaragi's press conference has come and gone, with a few big announcements made. As we speculated earlier the PlayStation 3 will be launched worldwide come November - this includes Europe, the US, Asia and even Australia. Sony shows Microsoft how to pull off a worldwide launch.

All games for the console will come on Blu-ray disks which should make it harder to pirate games, although the format will also hold more content. The console will support playback through high tech HDMI outputs and a 60 GB hard drive will be standard (whether or not the hard drive would ship withe console at launch was unclear), but it can be upgraded. Backwards compatibility with PSOne and PS2 games is also present and correct.

Bizaarely, the system will also support Linux and be able to act as a home server (i.e, you can access it remotely). Basic details of the online service were revealed. There will be a basic, free service, and more up-market ones as well. Downloadable content, voice chat and so on are all here, too.

Sony also had a few details about the PSP, too. An Eyetoy peripheral will be released for the handheld in August, as well as a GPRS device. The PSP's price will be dropping very shortly, apparently - more information tomorrow, fingers crossed. An official PSOne emulator will also be released for the PSP, but you'll require a PlayStation 3 to get this working officially. Oh, and the next firmware upgrade will see the unit supporting flash.

We'll have more information on both the PlayStation 3 and the PSP as soon as it becomes available. It certainly looks like Sony are very confident.

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22 Comments

DancesInUnderwear

6 years ago

...so, shall we take bets on when it'll come to Australia? I'll say April.

Jim Dash

6 years ago

There. As assumed, no PS3 'till next year for us.

Give us enough time to save for the bloody thing.

LeonJ

6 years ago

Yep, no love for Aussies again. Doesn't particularly faze me because, does this mean.....Halo 3 = November....?

thebigm

6 years ago

Anyone remember what happening to the PS1 and PS2 supporting Linux... and end users getting it?

Well it maybe by the end of this year I have all 3 next gen consoles one way or another, and if they are ruling out region coding that could only help.

838 La

6 years ago

Don't forget about Zedla, & Rev

Oh well, just can't wait for more delay news.

LeonJ

6 years ago

"Sony boss Ken Kutaragi has confirmed plans for a worldwide release of PlayStation 3 in "early November" at a press conference in Tokyo, which has now concluded. And by worldwide he means Asia, Europe, North America and Australia." - Source eurogamer.net

Interesting...

Bitchacho

6 years ago

^very interesting. if this is true i will poo my pant. hopefully hey have mgs4 or something sweet like that out early.

Qbert

6 years ago

If that's true(Australia being part of the world wide launch), this pushback doesn't affect us really. Say it launched July in Japan, we probably wouldn't have got it untill Novemberish anyway.

Here's to hoping that Sony has a map with Australia on it, unlike Microsoft.

Cro

6 years ago

Damn that's cool, if it does come out in November I'll be ready, already got $500 in the tray in case this happened.

Next weeks 360 launch is already forgotten for me.

ZNMS

6 years ago

A worldwide launch? Sure. Whatever.

EvilHayama

6 years ago

I think you might need more than $500, unless you mean $US... I would be really tempted by a worldwide launch, but it's all about the launch titles isn't it?

linux is available on PS2, you need a HDD obviously and it's crippled. The PS3 is much more linux-friendly, I think the dev kits use linux? Anyway IBM fully supports linux for the cell so it would be easy to use on the PS3. It will be interesting to see if Sony has to release the source code for their version of linux...

Jellyfish

6 years ago

Not at all what I was expecting, does this mean that the folks at Hollywood have decided on the copyright stuff then? Cause it could still get delayed... I am still skeptical of a worldwide launch; Sony could launch 1000 Consoles in Japan 100 in the US, 300 in all of Europe and like 10 in Australia/New Zeland and it would still be considered a worldwide launch.

Sony launches the counter-attack, Microsoft announces 80GB HDDs at E3? This E3 is now looking to be a good one rather then a stale one as I was expecting not so long ago.

Next up to bat; Nintendo...

LeonJ

6 years ago

The said they will have 6 million shipped world wide before 2006 end. Basically they are producing them full steam now and working out the Blue Ray side of things before launch. Isn't a bad thing really, launching worldwide with that many units ensure almost success...

EDIT - March 2007, which is still more impressive by M$...

NismoR34

6 years ago

When I read the news elsewhere earlier I didn't see any mention of Australia so I didn't think too much of this November announcement. Now that I see that we are included in this my interest has certainly increased. Of course I will probably have next to no chance of getting a PS3 at launch but even so, it would be damn nice to know that we are being considered for once. Whether Sony can manage to release consoles worldwide (decently) is another matter, naturally time shall tell. Good news then I guess, the 'next' generation is nearing quite quickly now.

Sin Ogaris

6 years ago

Cool, although I doubt I'll be able to afford it at launch, so I'm not fussed really when it's released.

plufim

6 years ago

6 million by march? Oh god, the shortages at launch.

And do we have a cost yet? Or if HDD is included?

However, this is crazy, and if true, all three next gen systems should be available in Australia by the end of 2006.

ZNMS

6 years ago

AusGamers says Sony will release the Sony Playstation 3 down here in Australia, this year.

k1dcharm

6 years ago

PS1 emulator for PSP... wow, I'm exicited. I'd love to reply Parasite Eve, Brave Fencer Musashi, Metal Gear Solid on PSP

thebigm

6 years ago

k1dcharm wrote

PS1 emulator for PSP... wow, I'm exicited. I'd love to reply Parasite Eve, Brave Fencer Musashi, Metal Gear Solid on PSP

A few problems with that, Aspect Ratio of screen, L2 R2 L3 R3 (pretty sure PS1 had them) a second analogue stick, memory stick size (they are going to have compress games somehow, most likely FMVs will be now be mp4 files) and then having the bandwith to download the games as well as paying for what ever Sony charges.

Not to mention the fact that 3rd parties actually need to make their games available, which is unkown as to whether they do that, it's not like Sony could simply put every single game on their server.

Frozencry

6 years ago

Sounds good, hope it actually happens, because if they fail this, many people will be angry.

Cro

6 years ago

EvilHayama wrote

I think you might need more than $500, unless you mean $US... I would be really tempted by a worldwide launch, but it's all about the launch titles isn't it?

Duhhhhh.....

Surely you gathered that by I already have $500 saved that that meant I had a head start on what I would of had. Obviously by then I'm intending on having atleast double that.