Really, it’s been a big day for the Playstation Network, with the launch of the new PS3 and PSP firmwares, and the launch of Playstation Plus. So there aren’t very many new things available on the network this week, (sadly no new PSone Classics), but there are a few deals. Trine for instance has dropped price down to $9.99, down 5 dollars, LocoRoco Midnight Carnival has halved it’s price to 7.49 from 14.99.
It seems like NeoGeo games and PCengine games will be coming to the Playstation network. The new PSP firmware allows us to put our games into folders and they added these two new categories. NeoGeo and PCengine games have been out on the Japanese PSN for a while, and it seems like they’ll be making their way to North America. More games are never a bad thing, I’m hoping these games will be a little cheaper than the PSone Classics seeing as they’re older, but we’ll see. It seems like Sony has really put a lot of great stuff in out laps today, I’m excited where the Network will go next.
Photo Gallery is now Network enabled- You can now share your photos or photo albums with you friends over PSN
Video Editor – A new video editor was released for free. I haven’t started to play around with it yet, but you can see a video of it from the post on Kotaku. It looks pretty spiffy if you ask me. You can also upload your videos straight to Youtube which is a great feature that I’ll try to make use of for future reviews.
At E3 Sony announced Playstation Plus, a new subscription service for the Playstation Network based on giving free content out throughout the year. Today it launched.
For 49.99 you get a year subscription, (and three extra months free) and you’re given exclusive access to betas, deals on games, and sometimes even free games, that stay yours for the duration of your subscription. Today the service launches with 2 free games, Wipeout HD, and Rally Cross (PSone Classic). You also get lots of deals on games like Midway games half off, and a few other games with their DLC available for free.
Last month was the month of Ubisoft’s Prince of Persia coming to a theatre near you. Throughout the month as well on PSN, they discounted many of the POP games to get people hyped up for the release, I bought the PSP port of the third game in the series, The
Two Thrones (renamed Rival Swords), and saw the film on opening weekend. I’ve decided to pit the two against each other to see whether they’re worth your time.
Release date: April 3rd, 2007
Price:14.99 (bought it at 50% off PSN – $7.49)
E3 has come to a close and really it was an amazing week of surprises, most of all was the Nintendo briefing that stole the show, the Microsoft meeting that showed off it’s Natal (now called Kinect) that’s seemingly only for casual gamers, and Sony who showed off lots of games that people have been waiting for, as well as the PS3 move, with both casual games and Hardcore games.
Finally the day has come, weeks after the release of the same game in the other markets, but then again I’m happy we’re at least getting it. It is no surprise that they’d wait until E3 to release it, the same as they did last E3. This news comes to us courtesy of the Playstation Blog, which also said you can learn more about this game by going to it’s website.
That’s right, Square Enix still has a Final Fantasy 9 website up and running, which is really cool and nostalgic in a way isn’t it?