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Want more on the PlayStation Move? Head over to Joystiq!

Sony’s calling the PlayStation Move the “next generation” of motion gaming and planning to market it as heavily as an entirely new console, so it’s sort of a big deal — and that means our main dudes at Joystiq are all over it. We’ve already covered the main details, but hit the links below if you’re looking for some seriously deep dives.

• SOCOM 4 to support PlayStation Move
• EyePet to support PlayStation Move, hits North America holiday 2010
• Move supported by 36 companies, 20 games this fiscal year
• The PlayStation Move games (we know of)
• Hands-on: SOCOM 4 (with PlayStation Move!)
• Hands-on: PlayStation Move’s ‘The Shoot’
• Hands-on: PlayStation Move’s ‘Move Party’
• Hands-on: PlayStation Move’s Sports Champions
• We touched it: PlayStation Move from every angle
• ‘Arc’ lives on in PlayStation Move’s logo

Want more on the PlayStation Move? Head over to Joystiq! originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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‘PlayStation Move’ trademarked by Sony in Europe
We’re exceptionally likely to find out the official name of Sony’s PlayStation motion controller in just a few hours during the company’s GDC press event, but till then, we’ve got one more late-breaking morsel to chew on: Move. According to trademark divers across the web, Sony has filed a European trademark for “PlayStation Move,” which certainly sounds like a plausible title for some sort of motion-sensing apparatus. To date, we’ve also heard “Arc” thrown around (which we tend to prefer, if we’re being candid), and the logo shown here — which is said to belong to a separate trademark application — definitely looks more like an “A” than an “M.” Keep it locked right here for more as we get it.

‘PlayStation Move’ trademarked by Sony in Europe originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sony: Don’t turn on your PS3 until PSN bug is fixed

Uh, wow. That PlayStation Network issue that struck late last night has officially ballooned into a PlayStation Network disaster: Sony is now saying you shouldn’t use “fat” PS3 models at all, since a clock-related bug might cause data loss. The PS3 slim isn’t affected, however — which explains some of the conflicting reports we heard last night. Sony says they’re working to get this fixed in the next 24 hours, but for now it looks like older PS3 owners are out of luck — we’ll do our best to keep you entertained, guys.

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Sony: Don’t turn on your PS3 until PSN bug is fixed originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sony’s PlayStation motion controller patents venture into abstract realms

We’ve seen plenty of PlayStation motion control patents from Sony, some of them surprisingly similar to what we’ve actually observed of the as-yet-unnamed controller. This new one, however, gets a little odd. The basic structure seems familiar, but Sony’s recently-filed patent application deals with add-ons in wild ways that not even the peripheral-happy folks at Nintendo have envisioned. Our favorite is probably the double-ender (Fig. 6B for those of you following along at home), which is probably the most assured recipe for a little brother’s bloody nose to be run by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office since the longstaff was invented. So, does this mean more cash to shell out for a “full” PS3 motion control experience? We can’t imagine Sony being gung-ho about that strategy in the face of the (as yet) add-on free Project Natal, but we suppose we’ll just have to wait and find out.

Sony’s PlayStation motion controller patents venture into abstract realms originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Foxconn To Launch Retail Stores In China

Taiwan-headquartered Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics manufacturer, will launch up to 10,000 consumer electronics retail stores in China, says China Daily. Until now they have not had a significant retail brand or presence.

What will they sell? Probably some of the many products that they build for well known brands, including the iPhone, iPod, iMac, Sony Playstation, Sony Vaio notebooks, Amazon Kindle, Nokia phones and Nintendo Wii.

But part of the plan, we’ve heard from an independent source, will be to use the retail presence in China to win manufacturing business as well. HP, Dell and others can move more of their business to Foxconn, along with a promise to get retail presence for their electronics in the Foxconn stores in China.

Foxconn exports $55.6 billion of electronics from their factories in China, says the article, or about 3.9% of China’s total exports. And that number may be lowballed. Our sources say no one outside of Foxconn even knows the real size of their exports, and that $100 billion/year or more is the street rumor in Asia.

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Sony to expand PlayStation Network into Sony Online Service, sell music, books, videos

Sony had a big management meeting in Japan today, where the tech giant announced some extremely vague plans for what’s initially being called the Sony Online Service — a new “iTunes-like” service built on the PlayStation Network that will sell books, music, and movies. That’s really all we know for now — Sony execs didn’t set a launch date or provide any specifics — but the move’s been rumored for a while and makes total sense, considering Sony’s huge investment in running PSN and vast array of products it could tie into the service, like the Reader e-book line, the PSP, and the various Network Walkmans. Now, whether or not Sony can manage to make good on this massive potential remains to be seen — we’ve got high hopes, but this isn’t a small challenge.

Sony to expand PlayStation Network into Sony Online Service, sell music, books, videos originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sony’s PlayStation Motion Controller now codenamed Sphere?

Sony may still have officially been using the less-than-imaginative “Motion Controller” name for its, um, motion controller at the Tokyo Game Show last month, but it looks like some developers working with the technology weren’t sticking as close to the script, and may have revealed the project’s proper codename. As Joystiq notes, Sega producer Yasuhito Baba referred to the device as “Sphere” during an interview at the show, and Polyphony Digital’s Kazunori Yamauchi also seemed to respond to the “Sphere” name without missing a beat when asked if Gran Turismo would support the peripheral. So, certainly less of a mouthful, and not exactly the worst of names if true — in fact, it’s such a good codename that none other than Microsoft has already adopted it for one of its projects.

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Sony’s PlayStation Motion Controller now codenamed Sphere? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sony R&D explains some background on the PlayStation motion controller

Well, it’s no GameGun, but we hear this “PlayStation motion controller” thing from Sony is going to be “kind of a big deal.” The SCEA R&D team was kind enough to put together some behind the scenes footage detailing a bit of the genesis of the controller and some of its technical prowess, and according to Sony this should be just enough of a calculated tease to get us excited for TGS in late September. We feel so manipulated. Video is after the break.

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Sony R&D explains some background on the PlayStation motion controller originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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