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Unboxed: Sony Play TV

After a year long wait since it was first announced, Sony's Play TV finally arrived on the desk of Stuff Magazine UK today. While they were tempted just to sit and watch the Olympics all afternoon, they did have a poke around the PS3's telly recording add-on to give you this first look.

Jamie Foxx5743d ago (Edited 5743d ago )

are hilarious... 'In order to allow recording while you're doing other things on your PS3 (say, playing Haze) you have to allow 'background recording', and there's a warning that this may cause slow-down and effect gameplay'

haze and effect gameplay lol
classic

thor5743d ago

I see why they mentioned haze though.

Marketing haze the way it was was very bad for the PS3. Whilst halo 3 is THE game for the 360, and is pretty good however you want to spin it, I'm sure many have seen haze for PS3 and compared it. Of course it doesn't hold up at all lol. So many of the only-play-a-few-games-a-year public will view haze as a major title for PS3, and so the PS3 will go down in their estimation.

FantasyStar5743d ago

I think they mentioned Haze because they wanted to point out the irony that Haze is a poorly programmed game that doesn't take advantage of the PS3 that much, yet using PlayTV can slow down gameplay because apparently Haze harnesses the PS3's power.

THC CELL5743d ago

This is still a good addon to ps3 i will be picking it up to replace my free view

LSDARBY5743d ago

I think i will still get this even though you cant transfer recordings. The freeview picture on my TV isnt very good quality. Does anyone know if this upscales the signal to 720p/1080?

BlackCountryBob5743d ago

One would assume that the freeview picture would undergo the same upscale process as DVDs.

I can't figure out why they make a point of stating it cannot record HD at launch when there are no HD Freeview broadcasts as yet; why bother talking about it when it cannot be done anyway so its not really a missing feature we need to discuss for another 3-5 years.

rickyjb235743d ago (Edited 5743d ago )

i think it makes a difference because it will be going through your ps3 and the ps3 is conected through hdmi so it should look a bit better , its like having a dvd player on a new hd tv using a scart input it dont look as good as a dvd player using hdmi. look at the pics on that webpage i know my freeview dont look as good as that

pp5743d ago

No thanks i want be spending any money on some cheap made product

zo6_lover275743d ago

How did I know you would be here?

If you want to talk about cheaply made products, your 360 is probably in the repair shop again.

QuizPyro5743d ago

The bots may come sooner than you think I think pp admires the ps3 he's in all most every ps3 news since I signed up WTF

foodbox5743d ago (Edited 5743d ago )

PlayTV < Tuner Card + Windows Media Center.

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7 Deserving Games That Never Got Backward Compatibility

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Microsoft once tried to nab LittleBigPlanet from Sony after a few drinks

It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.

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XiNatsuDragnel2d ago

Microsoft had a good idea but fumbled it again.

Cacabunga20h ago(Edited 20h ago)

Project Spark idea was decent but they quickly gave up ..
LBP was wonderful

ApocalypseShadow1d 15h ago

Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
https://www.playstationlife...

They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.

They're scum.

Zachmo18219h ago

Microsoft didn't force MLB on Xbox. MLB gave Sony 2 options either go multiplat or risk losing the license.

Rynxie9h ago

And why do you think MLB said that? I believe Ms approached MLB.

ApocalypseShadow9h ago(Edited 9h ago)

Totally ridiculous comment.

The only exclusivity Sony had was to their own creation of The Show. Microsoft could have paid the MLB for the license just like Sony did and made their own baseball game.

Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox. They're worth 3 TRILLION dollars. You think that's not enough money to make their own baseball game? Don't be delusional.

Microsoft spun it like they always do and told the media that they had to trust Sony with their hardware. After they put Sony in that position of not having a choice. Either go multiplatform or stop making one of their successful games. That's a no win scenario.

And what did Microsoft do? They didn't try to sell the game to the Xbox community. They put it on game pass to hurt Sony. Pushing the idea of why buy games that are $70 when you can play them in their cheap service for $10. It was a dirty tactic.

You fell for the Kool aid drink Microsoft served you instead of spitting it out. Hope it tasted good because you were fooled by Phil and the gang.

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Hereandthere44m ago

Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.

Bond revealed that MLB The Show “always came up” in conversations between Microsoft and the Major League Baseball organization. “We always said, ‘We love this game. It would be a huge opportunity to bring it to Xbox.'” she recalled. However, when Microsoft’s efforts materialized, it put the company in an awkward situation where it had to send in pre-release consoles to a rival company.

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Notellin6h ago

"Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox."

Take a nap, conspiracies are rotting your brain.

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Hereandthere43m ago

Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.

Hereandthere47m ago

They were too cheap/inept/lazy to develop their own mlb game, so they port begged for years and bribed the mlb to make the show multiplatform. Like i said many times, xbox brought nothing to the table their 24 years, ZERO.

OtterX22h ago

"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."

Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.

RNTody22h ago(Edited 22h ago)

Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.

But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?

Inverno21h ago

Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.

Inverno19h ago

They shut down the servers, that's millions of user created levels gone. That and dead are pretty much the same, it's also been years since 3 and they cancelled HUB soooo.

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fsfsxii6h ago

They shutdown the servers because no one was playing, no one in the community cared about the user created levels so why keep them up? Wtf you guys would never succeed in running a business.

Inverno4h ago

Yea dood no one was playing so they shut off the servers. Cause people with enough common sense can't just Google why they were actually shut of, right?

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