3D PS3 gaming arriving in 2010?

By Tor Thorsen, GameSpotPosted Sep 9, 2009 5:45 pm PT

CNET reports Sony is aiming to ship HDTVs that support 3D gaming next year, with plans for the 3D technology to be built into the console starting in 2011 and 2012.

At the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show, Sony showed off PlayStation 3 games running in 3D (See below) at its booth on the expo floor. Though attendants stressed that the footage was for demonstration purposes only, it did show Gran Turismo 5 Prologue and MotorStorm running in three full dimensions on a large HDTV. (Like with the 3D movies currently being screened in theaters, special glasses were required to view it.)

WipeOut HD in 3D...without the glasses.
Photo credit: CNET.

Now, Sony has confirmed that the first HDTVs to support PS3 3D gaming will likely hit the market next year. Last week at the IFA (Internationale Funkausstellung, or International Radio Exhibition) in Berlin, Sony reps told GameSpot sibling site CNET that the company is aiming to bring a PS3-compatible 3D Bravia HDTV into full production by the end of 2010.

To further tease the possibilities of the technology, Sony set up the prototype unit with a PS3 on the IFA show floor, showing off existing games, like WipeOut HD, being played in 3D. Company reps said the technology on display was built into the HDTV itself, meaning it would work with preexisting PS3 games and consoles.

However, more importantly for gamers, Sony reps said the company is aiming to integrate the 3D technology into the PS3 hardware itself starting in 2011 and 2012. If that plan comes to fruition, those PS3s could turn any HDTV into a 3D display without any modification. The company said similar plans are under way for Blu-ray players and VAIO laptops.

521 Comments

  • PlayTogether

    Posted Sep 14, 2009 12:42 pm PT

    @ Czech895 - "Why do gamers need 3D? WHY!?!?"

    Maybe because alongside proper motion sensing and vocal interactivity it is the next big step for gaming?

    If no-one tried stuff like this we'd all be complaining that there is no advancement in gaming. Imagine if they got senses into gaming (eg smells), how crazy would that be!

  • Czech895

    Posted Sep 14, 2009 7:20 am PT

    cool but Why? Why do gamers need 3D? WHY!?!?

  • KrazzyDJ

    Posted Sep 14, 2009 7:15 am PT

    If there's a console that can bring 3D gaming to life, it has to be the PS3

  • frazzle00

    Posted Sep 14, 2009 6:30 am PT

    @brendanhunt1

    "not really. more time=better game"

    Not always, do you remember Daikatana?

    "not september went ps3 sales went up by about 1000%"

    I'll wait for the NPD numbers to confirm this, but an increase in sales is no surprise given the new model and new lower price. Whether or not Sony can maintain this momentum (especially in light of the additional 360 price drop) is anyone's guess. It's way too early to make firm predictions like a lot of Sony fanboys have been doing.

  • brendanhunt1

    Posted Sep 14, 2009 2:54 am PT

    SalarianChemist
    ah i see you said august, not september went ps3 sales went up by about 1000%
    ,thats where i got confused when you said xbox outsold it.

  • MSTHEAT1

    Posted Sep 14, 2009 12:30 am PT

    I can't wait for 3d gaming from Sony! If Blue Ray was originally $500-imagine how affordable 3d will be! "New 3D gaming machine now only $1399.99! Unfortunatley,no Blue Ray as we won't be able to meet our price points if we include it.We will include a 3d demo of our new "watch the grass grow game" though!",says new Sony spokesperson U. Ben Dover.

  • Redhunt_86

    Posted Sep 14, 2009 12:28 am PT

    any HDTV? that seems too good to believe.

  • SalarianChemist

    Posted Sep 13, 2009 11:24 pm PT

    @brendanhunt1:

    VG Chartz is absolutely not a place that can be trusted for sales information.

    VG Chartz specifically says on its website that they use "a proprietary method of analyzing sales that includes information from the manufacturer."

    This instantly means that anything related to sales of PS3 cannot be trusted, because Sony is the manufacturer supplying the information--and we all know Sony's track record of feeding shareholders bogus sales information that doesn't agree with NPD numbers.

    Once again, I will use the classic example of when Sony had set a sales goal of 6 Million units to be sold by spring of 2007. But when that time arrived, Sony had only produced 5.5 Million and sold only 1.4 Million. As a result, Sony changed their corporate definition of the word sold to be synonymous with the word "produced." This way, Sony was allowed to tell shareholders that the PS3 was only 500,000 consoles behind their sales goal instead of 3.6 Million units behind their sales goal.

    Each time Sony makes an announcement, VG Chartz changes their information to match what Sony says, regardless of what NPD numbers have shown all year. This is what the website means when it talks about "information from the manufacturer."

    If Sony were to sell only 100 PS3 units all year, and VG Chartz reported that each month, VG Chartz would change that number to reflect whatever Sony announced at a later time, even if it was an increase of 1 Million. This type of one day increase of 1 Million actually happened in 2007 with VG Chartz during a non launch period thanks to a bogus announcement from Sony. So VG Chartz can't be trusted.

    NPD numbers are 100% accurate and they show that PS3 sales doubled, but the PS3 was still outsold by Xbox 360.

  • krazy-blazer

    Posted Sep 13, 2009 6:53 pm PT

    @ GimpProductions

    This is not Xbox360, This is PS3, The design of the PS3 and zipper optimizing it Allows 256 players running smoothly in one screen, it's already in beta, and no one is complaining about the smoothness

  • krazy-blazer

    Posted Sep 13, 2009 6:50 pm PT

    @ xtremeflem2day

    If you are worried about your eyes, you are truly not a real gamer, if they pull this off, This is going to change gaming forever

  • ps3gamer1234

    Posted Sep 13, 2009 6:44 pm PT

    Good day.

  • jehonaker

    Posted Sep 13, 2009 2:44 pm PT

    "more time=better game"

    Too Human would like a word with you.

  • brendanhunt1

    Posted Sep 13, 2009 10:49 am PT

    "Good News: NPD sales numbers show that PS3 sales doubled in August.
    Bad News: Xbox 360 still outsold PS3 for August."

    this tells a different story
    http://vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php

  • brendanhunt1

    Posted Sep 13, 2009 10:43 am PT

    "Gran Turismo 5 will have ended up spending more time in development than Killzone 2 or even Final Fantasy 13. This is a very disappointing statistic"

    not really. more time=better game

  • TevoxZi

    Posted Sep 13, 2009 12:53 am PT

    @SalarianChemist

    Not all people require Co-Op, infact I have rarely even heard of anyone complaining about it, seeing that Killzone 2 has a very decent single- and online multiplayer.

    Yes, Gran Turismo 5 has a lot of cars, but where did you read the ammount of tracks? Please, give me a link if you truly know something about it. Car damage can be hard to add to the game if the game has 1000 cars and they all have different outlooks from both outside and inside. I've heard the damage is visible inside the car in Gran Turismo 5 as well, think about how much of work would it require to implify the damage in every car. I've heard they'll only put it to those that are often used, because adding the damage to every car would be dumb especially since there are cars that probably no one will even touch, seeing that there's over 1000 of them. I've heard you can customize cars in GT5 as well, so what exactly is your point?

    Also, about E3 '09; were you there, or how exactly can you say something like that? GT5 kind of pwnt in GamesCom though keeping in mind that they had a real Audi there.

    The reason this comment came so late, was because I didn't remember which topic was it where you commented me that, but I accidentally found it and now I responded.
    ----
    Anyways going back ontopic;
    As I previously said before; the 3-D thing will be kickass and I'll surely try it out if they'll add it as a firmware update, because I won't be buying another PS3 just for 3-D while I'm already very happy with the current one that I have. However, even if it was to be in the newer PS3s then, it'd be nice for them those don't yet own a PS3.

    @xtremeflem2day
    I believe the 3-D would be a thing that you can enable and disable yourself. You don't _have_ to use it if you don't want to.

  • SIickster

    Posted Sep 12, 2009 11:07 pm PT

    Looks neat enough. Games can definitly benifit from 3D tech. Seems like it'd ruin certain other things though.

  • drivemuse

    Posted Sep 12, 2009 11:02 pm PT

    @Pwnd56: You obviously don't understand the principles of optical illusion. Glasses on the camera? Come on man..

  • xtremeflem2day

    Posted Sep 12, 2009 8:54 pm PT

    3D tends not to make it look much better, its wicked bad for your eyes, im looking for improvement in lag issues, graphics, audio, and more "Stuff" put in games.

    PS3 is a great console, i'm thinking of getting one, but if sony is attempting "3D Gaming", im sorry, but they just totally lost it.

  • DiscGuru101

    Posted Sep 12, 2009 7:53 pm PT

    Then we get to buy a Sony 3D TV too? -Lucky us.

  • cf_Kage

    Posted Sep 12, 2009 2:22 pm PT

    @Pwnd56, I think they did. You could see the horizontal lines go back into one, after a flick movement, and back again, which may have been a filter put on the camera, or they were switching something on the screen itself.

    But you wouldn't see 3D either way, even if it was on the camera.

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