TGS 07: PlayStation Home Delayed to Spring 2008; New PSP Remote Play Details

I wish he'd given more detail on the processor shrink. I am not buying a PS3 until the Cell and RSX are at the 65nm process (or 45nm even). When will this be at retail and how much will it cost?

In addition to this, I want to see:

1) Xvid/Divx codec support. If SONY wants us to buy a PS3 and not a multimedia center they better wake up and add this.

2) Keyboard + Mouse support in all FPS games. We know it can be done as Epic is implementing it for UT3. SONY needs to mandate this to all FPS developers on the PS3 platform. If you want hardcore gamers to move over from the PC to the PS3, this is a vital element.

3) Video editing. The PS3 is supposed to be a "multimedia center" right? Well, let's make use of the processing horsepower under the PS3's hood. The PS3 should have an iMovie equivalent that would allow DV camera owners to connect to their PS3 and edit/render videos on the fly. If this is not already in the works someone at SONY should have their job taken away.

4) Skype. Yes, the PSP now has a SONY walled garden VOIP client in Europe but what WE the consumers want is an open experience that allows us to call from our PS3/PSP to anywhere. Skype should be developed and released for both the PS3 and PSP and take advantage of the camera hardware for each. The port should be trivial as it already exists for SONY's failed Mylo handheld.

I feel that my above outlined points would be a major Win-Win for SONY and their customers alike. It would certainly attract more (including myself) to their currently struggling platform. I cannot see any negative aspects to introducing the above as well. Here's to hoping that someone influential at SONY reads Shacknews =).

Wow, Spring 2008? For something that probably won't be nearly as intuitive as Live? Way behind they are....

Good to hear that the PSP will be able to power on/off the PS3. The inability to do that made the feature somewhat useless. (Let's face it, since you have to be at home to use it it's going to be used for playing games in bed or on the toilet and having to go to the livingroom, wait for the PS3 and TV to power up, and thne navigate through menus to enable RemotePlay was a deal-breaker.)

I'm still not convinced that the feature will be that useful and not aware of any killer apps for it, though. The lack of controls on the PSP makes it a poor "remote control" for full PS3 games and features like spectating and so on sound pointless. It's got "Gamecube<->GBA connectivity" written all over it and we all remember how pointless that turned out to be.

Being able to watch videos on the PSP would be nice, but wouldn't it be nicer if the thing could just connect to a network drive or the now-standard media-sharing protocol that everything else (including the PS3 and Windows Media Player/Media Center) seems to have adopted? Surprisingly enough I don't store all my videos on my PS3...

Home and rumble in Spring '08? Sony really needs to hurry with all this. Virtually everything that was announced for this year has been moved to 2008, that'll certainly hurt the platform.