Sony to make big announcements tomorrow
The annual Game Developers Conference is going on this week in San Francisco. Originally, the Game Developers Conference (GDC) has always been a private industry event. However, with the down fall of E3, many companies will be using GDC as their big expo for the year.
Among the speakers at the event will be Sony Computer Entertainment America’s (SCEA) Phil Harrison. Harrison will deliver his keynote presentation on the future of the PSP and PS3 on March 7 between 10:30 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. PST. The presentation is titled “Game 3.0: Developing and Creating for the 3rd Age of Videogames” The speech will reportedly focus on the role of the community and user-generated content (onling gaming?).
SCEA has made announcement about the event -
“This is a very exciting time to be part of the game business. With advancements in technology and a shift in consumer trends, the development community has a great opportunity to create engaging new experiences in emergent entertainment content. This year we can expect to see a radical shift in creative game development that’s destined to drive our industry through the next decade or more.”
Sony will be showing off some new technology and hardware at the event too (PSP lite?). Among the technology showcased will be…
PS3 Tuner – Developed by SN Systems, a subsidiary of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., the Tuner is a profiling tool that enables developers to quickly highlight bottlenecks and conflicts in source code, helping them improve code performance. The Tuner is a software application, so there is no special hardware required, which enables developers to create high performance games with less guesswork.
Unreal Engine 3 – Epic’s next-generation game engine technology targets a diverse set of genres from fighting games to shooters to Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games
High-Level Graphics Package – PSSG (a PS3 optimized cross-platform graphics engine and tool-chain) production-ready extensible scene-graph framework that is written to take advantage of PS3 strengths
Sony will also be showing off their future prospects for the PlayStation Network. We’ll keep you posted about the event tomorrow.
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