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eat off-camera during Ramadan.Bandai Namco partners with ISKN to
make ‘creative entertainment platform’.It’s been a big couple of weeks for Sony,
with so many announcements and
snippets coming from the Japanese
company that it’s fundamentally altered
the very structure of our news section.
That’s not something you see every day.
Or fortnight. Anyway, first up
came the surprise announcement- and it even surprised folks
at PlayStation – that parent
company Sony will be working
in partnership with Microsoft on
some future endeavours.
Said endeavours include the likes of
collaborations on cloud solutions and
streaming services (both gaming and
other content), with the general belief
being the two companies have found it
necessary to work together in the wake
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from the virtual front
of Google’s announcement of its own
Stadia platform. There’s always a bigger
fish, and all that.
Elsewhere, Sony has been showing
off its less-friendly-to-Microsoft side,
demonstrating some PlayStation 5loading tech, otherwise known as ‘an
SSD’. OK, we’re being facetious – this is
a solid state drive with all the benefits of
being hooked up to a device dedicated
to and built for it, and we’re being
promised loading and data access timesan order of magnitude quicker than in
previous mechanical drive generations.
Yes, even quicker than if you put an SSD
into a PS4, smartypants.
Finally, everybody’s favourite house
of [insert gaming mascot here] also
revealed PlayStation Productions:
a new division specifically aimed
at getting its IPs into the world of
TV and film. And games too, but
mainly the first two. And what’s
the initial offering going to be?
Well, we’re not sure, but there is
a Twisted Metal TV show in the offing.
With inspiration coming from the Marvel
Cinematic Universe and a broad range
of characters to draw from, we look
forward to seeing what the big PP can
put together.- The PlayStation show(s)
“The surprise announcement – it even
surprised folks at PlayStation – that
Sony will be working with Microsoft”