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Sony had there E3 press conference last night and here are some of the highlights of that conference split into there sections.

PSP
The first main announcment for the PSP was the fact that a new PSP will be out later this year that is going to be slightly slimmer, weigh less and have better batterey life and thats all it will have unlike what most people were thinking there is going to be no new thumbstick added or the old one is’nt going to be changed.
On top of the newer version of the PSP there will be two new limited editions released, firstly theres the ice silver pack that will come with a copy of the game Daxter, a 1gb memory card and a famliy guy umd, secondly theres the very limited edition star wars psp that will be in white with darth vader on the back and will come with a copy of the new Star Wars Battlefront game that is exclusive to the PSP.

As usual alot of new games were shown of in trailer form which included Socom, Wipeout Pulse, Syphon Filter Logans Shadow, NBA 08, God of War Chains of Olympis and Silent Hill Origins, plus Sony said they plan to have a grand total of 140 PSP games out by the end of the next fisical year.

Finally on the PSP front a new feature was shown off that enables you to hook your PSP up to a TV and allow you to play your games back on a big screen.

Playstation Network
There were only two new announcements for the Playstation network, firstly 5 brand new games were shown off in the form of Echocrome which is a basic black and white platform puzzle game, Wipeout HD which looked like a high def verison of Wipeout from the PS2, Pain which is stunt style game, Warhawk which will also be avaliable to by on Blu-ray as well as been able to download it via the PSN and finally Socom Confrontation which will be the first outing for the socom games on the PS3 and like Warhawk you will also be able to buy it on Blu-ray.
Secondly more features of home were show off which included the ability to be able to send pictures and information from your mobile phone to your pad in Home and then you can send it on to a website that is designed to be able to take this information and let other people see it, also shown off is the ability to be able to launch any blu-ray game, anything off your hard drive etc while you are in home and when you are finsihed you are then taken back to the main home hub (no bt pun needed).

Playstation 3
The main things hsown off on the Playstation 3 side of the press conference was alot of new games that will be coming out soon included on the traielrs that were shown were Assassins Creed, The Simpsons Guitar Heroes 3, Kane and Lynch, Resdient Evil 5 and many more.
Mr Hideo Kojima was also n hand to show off the brand new trailer to Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots and he also said that this will be a PS3 Exclusive and that this WILL be his last Meatl Gear game.

Sony also announced that NCSoft will be joining the Playstation 3 exclusively and that they will be bringing some of there big PC titles as well as some new ones out only on the Playstation 3.
Also announced as a PS3 exclusive (for now anyway) was Unreal Tournament 3 and that it will hit stores later this year.

Well thats it from Sony’s press conference and over the next week we will be bringing you more news from E3