TGS: Friday Sony round-up

The TGS news is slowing to a trickle, but there are still things to report. In interviews with Phil Harrison, Kaz Hirai and Ken Kutaragi, Wired has learned a few interesting facts about the PS3. Harrison says that the new price for Japan's 20 GB PS3 is merely an adjustment to the "magic price point" Sony is aiming for in other countries. Harrison also clears up the console's "region-free" status - games will be region-free, movies won't. Meanwhile, Hirai and Kutaragi hint that the PS3 might not come with component cables. This is unconfirmed, but if true, expect some serious scorn heaped on Sony in the next few weeks.

Gamasutra writes that players should be able to create their own MOD files for the PS3 port of Unreal Tournament 2007. Crediting Sony's open online model, Epic's Tim Sweeney says it should be simple to transfer files produced on a PC to the PS3, and from there to the Internet. He even takes Microsoft to task for the "closed" model represented by Xbox Live. The company is "quite negative toward user-created content," he suggests.

Epic's Jay Wilbur notes that 2K7 has been delayed until "Q2 or early Q3" 2007.

by MacNN Staff