Life with PlayStation Now Set for August Release
By Chris on Saturday, August 2nd, 2008 at 4:59 PM PST In Game Companies, Game Consoles, Game Platforms, Gamer Life, Sony, Sony
July came and went without the release of Life with PlayStation as originally promised, but Sony is now saying the new service will launch sometime in August.
“We know many of you are eager to try out the new service for yourself, but you’ll have to hold tight,” Sony’s Noam Rimon wrote on PlayStation.Blog. “Due to a few procedural matters, the new service will make its way to PlayStation fans in August.
“Rest assured, Life with PlayStation will be a service that introduces a new way to interact with your PS3. By bringing information from around the world into your living room, Life with PlayStation will offer a variety of interactive content and channels on a visually stunning worldwide map interface.”
Life with PlayStation essentially works much like some of the Wii’s channels, allowing you to view news and weather from around the globe. With the PS3’s extra horsepower, you can expect things to look a tad bit nicer than they do in the Wii’s weather and news channels.
We’ll have to wait and see if the release slips again. The news and weather features are nice, but I can’t imagine using them anymore than I did on Wii — which is to say, not past the first day or two of their release.
image via Kotaku
It’ll be useful enough. It’s one of those things that I’m just glad they’re putting in for the rare times I’ll actually use it.
Err… what?