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New PS3 information emerged last week at the Game Developers Conference. SCE President Phil Harrison disclosed several details about the device, including that it will support an online gaming service, tentatively called the PlayStation Network Platform (PSNP), as well as movie and music downloads.
According to Harrison, PSNP will give PlayStation 3 users the ability to communicate directly with one another not only through instant messaging, but also through voice and video chat. In addition to offering social-networking features, PSNP will let users upload their own content to sell to the community at large. At the basic level, the online platform, which will debut in November with the PlayStation 3, will be free to all PS3 owners.
While the service will be designed to cultivate a MySpace-like PlayStation community, Harrison expects that it will form the center of what he termed a "wheel of fortune" for Sony. Sony seems to be taking the creation of an online component for the PlayStation 3 much more seriously than it took the
PlayStation 2's, according to Forrester Research analyst Paul Jackson, who called the PlayStation 2's Internet connectivity a "ramshackle service."
While the PSNP strategy might work to Sony's advantage, said Jackson,
the every-developer-for-itself model might preclude small shops worried
about running their own content servers and e-commerce systems.
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