Sony internal PlayStation-3 BRIEFING NEXT WEEK!

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maybe something will leak out of Sony's ass......I mean.... out of
their
internal Playstation 3 briefing...... I'm sure we'll get a nice brown
piece of.... I mean.... some tasty nuggets of PS3 info.... yeah, that's
the ticket.



ok kidding aside:

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=7214
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Sony plans internal PS3 briefing next week; public unveiling on track
for E3


Rob Fahey 00:00 08/03/2005
Sources at GDC let slip details of Sony's internal PS3 unveiling

Sony is planning to show off the PlayStation 3 to its key worldwide
executives at a major internal briefing next week, it has emerged, but
the consumer unveiling of the next-gen platform is still not expected
until E3 in May.

Information about the briefing has emerged privately from senior
sources close to Sony at the Game Developers Conference in San
Francisco, with several senior staffers from the firm's overseas
offices making the trip to the event next week.

However, further chatter among some developers at the show which
pointed
towards a rather more public PS3 unveiling in Tokyo later this month
has
been officially denied, with a SCEE representative telling
GamesIndustry.biz
that "we've already said that the first showing of the next generation
PlayStation will be at E3 this year."

Next week's briefing is believed to be strictly for internal staff at
Sony,
with even the company's closest development partners from overseas not
on
the guest list. "What I can say is that I'm not going to Japan this
week,"
one very senior PlayStation development source told GI.biz off the
record.

What exactly the Sony execs will get to see in Tokyo is hard to say.
The final specification for the system is almost certainly complete,
and if it is to be shown at E3, we'd expect that the physical design of
the hardware has also been completed.

However, whether software demonstrations will be a part of the briefing
is
another question entirely - but it seems eminently possible, with
several
well-informed sources at GDC insistent that several of Sony's Japanese
partners have had quite advanced PS3 development kits for "a couple of
months", with the kits now making their way into selected developers in
the west as well.