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E3 2007: Sony's Smaller Announcements

Guticb | July 12, 2007 | News | Playstation 3 E3 2007 Company 
Sony made a lot of announcements this year, and the massive ones overshadowed some of the smaller but still major ones, including a social networking site, Killzone 2 footage being from a pre-alpha build of the game, and Lair being a full 25GB.
With Sony's press conference in the past, we've created a roundup of all the small, but significant, announcements and confirmations. This year, Sony allowed very little time for the audience to ponder and absorb, so a lot of the groundbreaking revelations were not emphasised. This was of course a good thing, as it showed that Sony had a lot of things to say. So aside from the major announcements, such as MGS4, Haze and UT3 exclusivity, here are the other tidbits:

- 200 games on Blu-ray and 180 downloadable games will be released worldwide by the end of Sony's fiscal year (March 2008). 120 of the downloadable games are set for the USA.

- SOCOM: Confrontation is confirmed to be releasing as a downloadable game on the PSN and on Blu-ray, just like Warhawk.

- The first SOCOM: Confrontation map that was shown was called Cross Roads.

- A new track will be made available for MotorStorm in August. The track is called Eagle's Nest.

- WipEout HD, a PSN downloadable game, will run at 1080p resolution at 60fps.

- A social networking website will be released along side Home as a way for your friends to see your PlayStation gaming profile.

- You can send pictures from your cell phone to Home and from Home to the social network site with no network hiccups.

- Lair weighs in at a heft 25GB, taking up the full layer on its Blu-ray disc.

- MGS4 will be played by Hideo Kojima on July 17th at an event in Japan.

- The footage of Killzone 2 shown is from its pre-alpha build.

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    Linkin Park Fan | July 12, 2007
    Thanks for some of the info. But I already knew most of it. Trying too be on top of everything this E3
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    Storm | July 13, 2007
    Like LPF, I also know just about all of this. I'm psyched for Wipeout HD and Metal Gear Solid 4 out of the list. Wipeout for the first Playstation really got me interested in racing games.
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    black_wing79 | July 13, 2007
    well i guess in this case when they mean't smaller announcements they really mean't 'smaller, mostly not suprising' announcements.. nothing down here most people do not know yet..
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    Final Blade | July 13, 2007
    But nonetheless awesome. Hmm just waiting for the many new exclusives sony is getting
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    tidus04 | July 14, 2007
    Nothing new really but still good to hear.

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