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Sony delays 'Life with PlayStation' debut

by Randy Nelson on Aug 1st 2008 4:25PM

Revealed in June, Life with PlayStation is totally not Sony's answer to the Wii's news and weather channels. Okay, it is. Utilizing data from Google and a spiffy, HD rendering of the earth (think PS3's "earthrise" music visualizer) the downloadable app displays real-time weather and news headlines. It's also been delayed.

SCEA president Jack Tretton spoke about Life with PlayStation's imminent release at the company's pre-E3 media briefing last month. The way we understood it, the app would go live quite soon-ish. Now comes word from SCEA's senior R&D manager, Noam Rimon, that it will actually arrive in August. Hey, that's this month! Why the delay? Rimon cites "a few procedural matters" as the hold-up. (Translation: the R&D group was having too much fun spinning the virtual globe. Whee.)

[Via PS3 Fanboy]

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Tags: delay, life-with-playstation, PS3, sony

Reader Comments (41)

they should just never give dates, and avoid crap like this.

Agreed. Or stick with vague dates like Pineapple '09 or "soon."

"Two years after the other consoles have it."

Delaystation 3.

Can we start using that name again?

I didn't know we ever stopped.

Only if you change your name to suXbox-Three-Suxty....and died

Booyah! But when it comes out its gonna be the best thing EVAR!!!1!!!111!!!!1One

"Only if you change your name to suXbox-Three-Suxty....and died"

You're a fellow musician, surely you can be more creative than that.

"You're a fellow musician, surely you can be more creative than that."

Sometimes, but not when I'm trying to point out how wonderfully original the whole "delaystation" thing is. But, yes, to agree with you, it was horrible.

You are a scout too, are you not? Then let us duel with blades.

I am utterly shocked.

can we just stick to reporting Sony stories about them releasing something as promised? It will make things much easier.

But... but... but then we'd have nothing Playstation/Sony related to report on!

http://www.instantrimshot.com/

Dude, you can't just give yourself a rimshot.

yeah but then at least you would know that any news is indeed good news.

Can we really blame the R&D guys for the delay? I mean spinning the virtual globe is incredibly awesome.

You talk of delay, but those guys are trying to give us the WORLD!
The whole damn planet, muahhahhahaahaaaa!

Well god gave us the world in 7 days, wtf is taking Sony so long?

Contrary to fanboys, Sony is no God.

He gave it to us in six day's, the seventh day he rested.

My shock at this announcement has been delayed until the end of September.

Best one so far.

lol

This app is useless unless you can set it as your screensaver.

Ditto for Folding @ Home.

You can sort of half way do that with F@H. There's a setting that allows you to have it auto-start after so many minutes idle.

Well, the most delayed games are still on the 360: Too Human, Splinter Cell 5 and Alan Wake. And its probably better to delay than release a half-finished title like Gears

Oh noe you din't!

Listwarz activate!!

Splinter Cell 5 hasn't been delayed all that much, it was supposed to come this year, now it's coming next, that isn't all that unusual. Besides, it's Ubisoft, not Microsoft.

And considering Too Human was original a PSOne game before being completely put on hold, until it was recently re-developed for the 360, I don't think that really counts either.

Uh, snowblind it was originally set top come out last fall, they pushed it back to this fall, and now they pushed it back to this spring, and my guess is they'll push it back to next fall once we get near November

So it checks the weather and gives us news?

How much did they fuck up that something like that needs a delay?

They had to convert it into 4D so the PS3 could display it properly.

LOL +1 for that

Do we actually know anything about this thing other than the screenshot and that it does news and weather? If they really wanted to make this thing awesome, they'd let us add our own RSS feeds to 'news globe' or whatever.

To help save Weblogs, Inc. some money, this article should be saved and then reused next month when Sony announces another delay til September.

Unfortunately, a new article would still have to be written when Sony announces that they've canceled the project.

Of course any savings they would have gained has now been eatin up with your double-post. =)

And the world collectively said:
"That was what again? The video thing? I thought it launched already. Oh well, back to MGS4."

HOLY SH*T!! I cant believe its not coming out in July. Oh wait... its already August and we dont have it yet? Why are you reporting this?

what was it exactly, the weather? it sounds cool and all but i have a web browser on the ps3. i also have weather in my cable menu and a whole tv channel for my area. i read through the EULA most times when i update and saw that it says they may drop features etc. i just want the ability to rewind or fast forward audio without having to quit the browser.

Sony's Actual Release State (SARS): r²±∞=n

Where r is the Sony release date.
Where n is the Absolute Date.

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