Sony dropped the word on Sunday that for the first time ever, the PlayStation Blog would be streaming Sony’s E3 press conference this year. Now, just a couple of short days later, they’ve announced that there will be another, possibly more convenient way, to watch the conference for you PS3 owners. PlayStation Home is going to have a dedicated ‘special screening room’ where you’ll be able to watch a live stream of the conference with your fellow Home users.
If memory serves, E3’s conference from last year was watchable via Home but only after the conference had ended. This year marks the first time you’ll be able to watch it live inside Home.
At the same time, Sony also announced that the hugely successful virtual E3 booth that gamers could access via Home last year, is also returning for 2011. Just like last year’s version, the booth is slated to be an accurate recreation of Sony’s layout on the E3 floor.
By visiting the virtual E3 booth and watching the conference, you’ll be able to earn exclusive digital items for your Home space and avatar, play demos that aren’t available anywhere else outside of E3 and have a look at a 3D-rendered NGP.
Pretty spiffy, eh?
Source: US PS Blog **thanks to October91 for the tip**
Amphlett
Here’s an idea… How about a Sony channel on the XMB next to the IPlayer, ITV Player and 4OD? The Sony channel could stream live and near-live videos of conferences and big announcements and lay out the channel in a similar manner to the IPlayer.
The reason I suggest this is that I really can’t be bothered getting another main update for Home and additionally downloading and updating every room I visit as I try in vain to find the area where the conference is being streamed.
minerwilly
My avatar must look like a uboat Kapitan by now , been that long . Hope he’s been keeping my house tidy at least . The Ba****d hasn’t paid his rent for months.
cam the man
Haven’t visited Home for quite a while but will def checkout the virtual booth.
hazelam
no mention of this on the eu blog, probably means we wont be getting it.
Foxhound_Solid
TSA GANG SHOULD HOOK UP FOR THIS!
RudeAwakening
wow that sounds pretty darn cool, will defo try to stay up untill 2 in the morning.