Sony’s head of PlayStation marketing John Koller, spoke to the US PS Blog in a video interview about all the buzz surrounding 3D gaming at CES, saying 3D on PS3 is “as simple as a firmware update.”
“3D is the buzzword here [at CES] and that’s because it takes gaming much further, and the cycle of innovation that we’ve been trying to put into PS3 has landed us in a spot that puts us withing the Holy Grail of gaming,” he said. “it feels like you’re ‘in’ the game now with 3D, and it’s fantastic.
“Out of the box with PS3, you don’t have to do anything. It’s gonna take just a simple firmware update which most people do regularly anyway, and that’s all it’s gonna take to accolade the PS3 to 3D gaming. It’s just a simple firmware update on the hardware.
“You will, however, have to have a 3D TV and the glasses to get the full experience and Blu-ray movies in 3D will require a second firmware update, which will be required at the end of the year.”
The full interview is below.
Yeah it sounds all good, but not everyone can shell out a couple grand on a 3d TV. I just cannot see this catching on in a typical home setting for at least a few more years. plus this is new technology. the 3d TV’s, not 3d in general. It will be ridiculously overpriced im sure, then in a few years depending on its success they’ll decide whether to keep making them or not.