Andrew House has confirmed that the PS4 will be coming to North America and Europe this Holiday season, priced at just $399 / €399 / £349. This makes the PS4 $100 / €100 / £80 cheaper than the Xbox One, and without all the used game restrictions.
Sony has confirmed that existing PlayStation Plus subscriptions will transfer over to the PS4, giving gamers content for the PS3, PS Vita and PS4 for the same price. In addition, Sony has confirmed that DriveClub will be the first game in the PS4’s Instant Game Collection, with a new game available every month.
Jack Tretton has confirmed that the PS4 won’t impost any new restrictions on used games, allowing owners to freely give away or sell their old games. In fact, Sony has confirmed that games won’t be tried to your PSN account, or require any Internet connection of any sort to verify the game you’re playing.
At Sony’s E3 Press Conference, Shu Yoshida confirms that Killzone: Shadow Fall, Drive Club, and Knack will be PlayStation 4 launch titles. In related news, inFamous: Second Son will be releasing for the PS4 in Q1 of 2014. Check out new trailers for the games below.
A new episode of Telltale’s The Walking Dead was announced at Sony’s E3 Press Conference, and will be arriving this summer. The episode, titled “400 days”, will also be coming to the PS Vita with a exclusive hardware and game bundle.
Moments ago, Sony revealed the final design for the PS4 console, with Andrew House holding the console in his hands. We have the official photo of the console below. The console itself is much smaller that the first-generation PS3 model, and still has the iconic matt black finish the PS3 Slim features.
PlayStation Plus subscribers in North America can look forward to new games tomorrow as the Instant Game Collection is updated with thee new fixtures and a new game. As mentioned last week, three new games will replace LittleBigPlanet 2, inFamous 2 and Motorstorm Apocalypse for the next 12 months.
Sony’s E3 Press Conference is just a few hours away now, where the PS4 will finally be revealed to the world, with hopefully a firm global release date and pricing. The press conference will kick off at 2:00am BST / 3:00am CET, but the livestream will begin at 1:30am / 2:30am. You’ll be able to watch the at PlayStation.com, Ustream, PlayStation Home, Facebook or Google Plus.
Tekken will be getting the free-to-play treatment this summer when Tekken Revolution hits the PS3. The game was revealed in GameSpot’s E3 preview (below) at 19:30 into the video (below). The game will be releasing on the PlayStation Store tomorrow, June 11th, 2013, and may be shown off at Sony’s E3 Press Conference tonight.
LittleBigPlanet 3 has been spotted on the website of animation studio JK Studios (which has since been deleted), indicating that the game is being developed by Sheffield based indie developer Sumo Digital. Media Molecule or Sony have yet to announced the existence of the game, but the listing confirms that the game is in development.
