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After the link. Sony showed the crowd a new video of Playstation Home at yesterday’s Playstation Business Review in Tokyo.

See people talking to each other, PSP interaction and everything looking rather bright and colourful.

Check it out.

By Mike Bowden

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On Engadget. We can’t get it to play, but this clips apparently shows the upcoming PS3 daily news service shown in the PlayStation Business Review in Tokyo yesterday. Good luck.

Speaking at the PlayStation Business Review in Tokyo yesterday, Sony boss Kaz Hirai said that PS3 was the only machine capable of delivering “true generation” games.

“As PlayStation 3 approaches the second anniversary of its release, the release of PS3 software titles with the true generation quality only available on PS3 is accelerating,” he said, pointing out MGS4 as an example.

The launch period hadn’t been easy, said Hirai, but fical 2008′s plan would see the console through.

“By refocusing the positioning of PS3 first and foremost as a gaming platform, we were able to bring an attractive title lineup and achieve a sufficient number of PS3 sales as expected in the fiscal year 2007 holiday season,” he added.

Thanks, Kotaku.

SCE CEO Kaz Hirai has confirmed that the PS3 Cell processors will use new, smaller RSX graphics chips this “fall”.

“The Cell and RSX used in PS3s at launch were manufactured using a 90nm process technology. And now all PS3 Cells have shifted to 65nm process technology since last holiday season,” he said today in the PlayStation Business Review in Tokyo.

Check out all the rest of out news from the event here.

By Mike Bowden

As you can see from the image in this story, Sony’s overall message at today’s PlayStation Business Review was clear: the end goal of all Sony games efforts is to turn a profit this fiscal year.

The picture is the last slide in Hirai’s presentation at the event.

Read all our PlayStation Business Review news here.

Sony confirmed in its PlayStation Business Review in Tokyo today that White Knight Story is aiming to be out this fiscal year.

That means the game will ship before April 2009. The Level-5 RPG is obviously much-anticipated, so this is good news for Sony and JRPG fans alike.

Thanks, Blerk.

Speaking at the PlayStation Business Review in Tokyo today, Sony claimed that PS3 and PSP have now sold through a total of 50 million units between them.

You can get the rest of the news from the conference here.

Here. There’s a metric fuckload of stuff in there, so knock yourself out.

Speaking at the PlayStation business review in Tokyo today, Sony confirmed that more than 9.8 million people have now registered for PSN worldwide.

Apparently, more than 170 million pieces of content have been downloaded from the service in total.

Yet more from the PlayStation Business Review in Tokyo today, and this one’s a megaton. Sony’s shown off a search function as an upgrade to the PSN Store. That’s it. Check to see whether or not you’ve soiled yourself. Thanks, TheSixthAxis.

More from the PlayStation Business Review in Tokyo. According to this PS3 Attitude piece, Sony’s announced a service that will allow PS3 owners to view daily world news interactively.

The system, billed under the firm’s just-announced Life with PlayStation brand, allows you to zoom around a virtual globe and gain world news from various cities.

At a later date, the service will allow later on for geo-tagged pictures to be viewed on the globe, and is part of a whole slew of non-game services Sony are planning for the future.

More through the link.

Speaking at the PlayStation Business Review in Tokyo today, Sony chief financial officer Nobuyuki Oneda said the company aims to “post some profit at the game business in the full year to March 2009.”

“The PlayStation Portable is likely to maintain its growth momentum, while the PS3 is also expected to show further improvement thanks to the cost cuts and rises in the titles line-up,” Oneda said.

More on GameRush.

Sony just announced that PS3 movie downloads will begin this summer in the US.

According to this AP report, Europe and Japan will get the service at a later date.

There are images of the new service on Famitsu, as well as a lot more info (in Japanese) on the ongoing PlayStation Business Review in Japan.