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SCEA CEO Jack Tretton said in a roundtable with journalists at E3 today that he would have liked to have had backwards compatibility in PlayStation 3, but the company has made its decision and is sticking with it.

He explained that Sony did “not take a greater hit on production cost without losing PlayStation’s heritage” and that backwards compatibility “wasn’t all that expensive.”

“But we’re selling PS2 software to PS2 customers, and selling PS3 software to PS3 consumers,” he added.

“I would like to have had it in there, but Sony’s collective strategy determined we could afford to lose it. We’ve now gone down that road: we’re not going back.”

By Mike Bowden

Speaking to Gamespot after the Sony E3 press conference last night, Zipper Interactive lead designer Andy Beaudoin said that the aim of the newly-announced Massive Action Game was the create something that couldn’t be achieved on any other hardware.

“Obviously, with PlayStation 3 we’ve got a lot more power we can tap into to try to create different games, so we sat down and tried to figure out how we could take a lot of the shooter experience we had… and create a game that was going to be unrivaled,” he said. “Basically one that could only be done on the PlayStation 3.”

The game was revealed in the conference for the very first time last night, showing 256-player combat in a futuristic war setting.

Watch the full interview through the link.

They can be found over at PS3F. Looking very nice indeed too. There’s also some concept art there so you can compare the screenshots with the artwork and marvel at what a fantastic developer Insomniac is. Or something.

Through the link, anyway.

By Mike Bowden

After the break. It’s a snip taken from the Sony press briefing last night from the look of it. Have a nose.

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CVG has them. It looks like Super Stardust to us, just minus the ‘HD’. Go look.

By Mike Bowden

Sony has said that over 130 PlayStation 2 titles are to be released this year, which means that by the end of 2008 there will be over 10,000 games for Sony’s eight year-old system.

“The biggest brands in the industry are still delivering games on PS2,” said big Jack Tretton, SCEA CEO at yesterday’s E3 press conference.

Thanks, GI

By Mike Bowden

After the break. The MMO was shown running on PS3 for the first time in the Sony conference last night, and it’s all looking very promising. See for yourself.

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Two new video have emerged showing new footage of That Game Company’s latest title, Flower. They look all floaty and motion-controlly to us. Check them out after the drop.

By Mike Bowden

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1UP has taken a long hard look at Platinum Games’ new hack ‘n’ slash title for PS3 and Xbox 360, Bayonetta.

“When there’s not much happening on the screen, the game feels somewhat like Ninja Gaiden, with certain enemies showing a similar visual style to the monsters from Tecmo’s game and one environment that looks like a cathedral,” says the piece.

“But when the game ramps up, it gets pretty crazy with flowerpots that shatter in the background and lots of flourishes surrounding attacks.

“Given Kamiya’s track record (he was the main guy behind Okami, Viewtiful Joe, and Resident Evil 2, as well as Devil May Cry), our expectations are extremely high for Bayonetta, and thus far it looks very cool, but we haven’t seen even close to enough to know if it’ll be able to stand up proudly next to those games at this point.”

Sounds promising. Full thing through the link.

See them over at Shacknews. It’s looking very fast, and very furious. Too fast and too furious, perhaps?

Check them out.

By Mike Bowden

We told you the PlayStation Video Store was going live last night, and PS3F has confirmed it.

You can download a SD film in one-to-two hours, Eric Lempel said yesterday. If that feels like too long to wait, you can actually begin watching the film before it’s downloaded, which is nice.

No word of a European date, of course.

By Mike Bowden

Nintendo and Sony both put on there E3 press conferences last night, and while the fireworks we saw at the Microsoft event on Monday were lacking, there was still plenty of news for you not to miss. Some of you have lives, and we understand that, and therefore don’t want to spend your spare time following videogaming news on the internet. While we think you’re a bit odd, we respect your decision. Every story from both conferences is listed below.

News from Sony’s E3 conference

• Four new E3 LittleBigPlanet videos published
• Five new PlayStation Home screenshots released
• Ratchet & Clank: Future Quest for Booty, IGN hands-on
• God of War III teaser trailer posted
• Killzone 2 – hands-on video
  
• Sony announces LEGO Batman PS2 bundle
• inFAMOUS shots and trailer back up our “good” conference verdict
• Rumour: Killzone 2 to copy Halo movie features
• Killzone 2 beta “definitely” in plans
• New Resistance 2 screens show prettiness
• Resistance 2 Sony conference movie posted
• Resistance Retribution – hands-on and movie
• MGS4 “impossible” on 360, says Tretton
• New PSN games announced in E3 conference
• Massive Action Game announced for PS3
• Infamous for spring 2009
• God of War III shown in LA
• SCEA to dump 40Gb PS3 pack
• DC Universe Online demoed on PS3
• Super Stardust Portable announced
• Resistance Retribution announced for PSP
• SCEA fails to provide date for Home beta
• 5 million pieces of PlayStation hardware sold in the US so far this year
• LBP to release in October
• Resistance 2 demo knocks out E3 crowd, but date goes begging
• Tretton: “PS3 drove the Blu-ray format to victory and now the Blu-ray format is poised to return the favour”

News from Nintendo’s E3 press conference

• Hands-on with Animal Crossing: City Folk
• Miyamoto talks “Wii version” of upcoming Zelda
• Wii Music – hands-ons, movies
• Wario Land: The Shake Dimension shots released
• Animal Crossing: City Folk gets shots and movie
• Miyamoto: WiiSpeak is to “connect living rooms to each other”
• Guitar Hero: On Tour Decades for DS in September
• Wii Music shown in Nintendo press conference
• Wii Sports Resort will launch globally next Spring
• Wii Sports Resort announced
• Nintendo announces Spore Creatures DS
• Spore DS movie taken from Nintendo conference
• WiiSpeak and Animal Crossing: City Folk will be out on Wii in 2008
• Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars for DS
• CoD: World at War, Raving Rabbids and Star Wars The Clone Wars lead third-parties at Nintendo conf
• Nintendo expects DS to reach over 100 million sales by March 09

At IGN. However, if you’d rather stay here and watch them, hit the jump as we’ve embedded them all for your pleasure.

See Sackboy help Sony CEO Jack Tretton display just how awesome PlayStation sales figures can look. Out October, by the way.

By Mike Bowden

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IGN has them. See people milling about chatting to each other in areas like an arcade or a swanky bar for hip people.

Through the link.

By Mike Bowden

IGN has yet again got what we’re pretty sure is the first hands-on with a newly-announced game at this year’s E3, and this time it’s Insomniac’s Ratchet & Clank: Future Quest for Booty.

“The title felt a lot like R&C Future [Tools of Destruction] — and that’s a good thing,” says the piece.

“It’s running on the same engine, it looks just as good, and all the other production values seem to be up to par. The color palette looked a bit more varied and than what I’ve seen in the past darker — which plays into the dark caves that are coming up in the future — and I like that.”

Full thing through the link.

By Mike Bowden

After the break. You don’t see much, but then again if you did, it wouldn’t be a “teaser” now would it? It’s all about “chaos,” apparently. See for yourselves.

By Mike Bowden

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There’s a video after the link of G4′s hands-on with Killzone 2. This and Resistance 2 are looking good, no doubt, so PS3 shooter fans have lots to look forward to here. See rfor yourself.

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Again, this slipped through the net during the conference fury. SCEA announced a new PS2 bundle last night, including the machine with LEGO Batman for $150.

It’s out this year, and also features Justice League: The New Frontier on DVD. Brilliant.

Remember us telling you Sucker Punch’s inFAMOUS looked “good” during the Sony press conference last night? Turns out we were actually right. There’s a set of screens on PS3F and a movie after the link that show we weren’t quite hallucinating at that point. Phew.

Game’s out early next year.

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This Gameplayer article‘s rumouring that Killzone 2 will feature similar video-sharing features to those found in Halo 3.

No confirmation, but this would be about as shocking as the sun coming up in the morning.

More soon.