Sony Unveils Two Online Services for the PS3

**Grace of Darkness**

Sony has announced that it will release two new online services for its PlayStation 3 gaming console. One of the services will allow video streaming over the internet, while the second one will provide weather information and news content about places all over the world.

The video streaming service will allow users to rent HD movies from Sony's movie library. The company hasn't mentioned how much the rental of a movie would cost, and said that more details about the service will be given at the E3 conference that will take place in July. What is sure is that the service will be first made available in the US this fall, and that Japan and Europe will follow shortly.

The second service that the company announced is called ‘Life with PlayStation' and is somewhat similar to Nintendo's news service. The main interface of the service is represented by a satellite picture of the Earth that shows the current whether conditions, as seen from outer space. The most important cities are marked on the picture. When the user clicks on a city, a list of the news about the events that take place there is displayed, as well as weather information.

These two new services are part of Sony's efforts of turning its PS3 gaming console to profitability. The PS3 has been quite an unpleasant surprise for the Japanese company, which lost about $3 billion because of the bad pricing strategy it used to promote its product. However, the PS3 has started to fare better and better recently and the new services that were announced will most probably do it good.

**SolidRevolver**

Cool, I wonder if it will allow us to put our own Weather and news scroller on the XMB at some point too, would be nice little tool.
And we will be able to watch and download movies with Home, at least thats how I understood it.

privaronT

I wonder if it will lower the price so I can hawk off this POS Xbox and play MGS4 SMILEY

**nubious81**

yeah i saw this the otehr day although right now the only studio they have is sony hope they get more the prices seem good from what im hearing i hear it will be 6$ for HD and 13 for SD. the life program looks call and it looks nice to i saw the demo video of it as well. i do think the ps3 will be due for a price drop fairly soon the ps3 is going to be using the new 65n chip sets and i hear a 360 price drop is coming any day now or at the e3 and i only th ink it would make sense to lower the price for the ps3 to keep riding the momentum it has in terms of sales.