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Rockstar's mysterious PS3-exclusive game

David Carnoy, Crave.com | Aug 02, 2007

While Rockstar Games was unwilling to go Sony-only for the next version of Grand Theft Auto, the company is apparently working on its "next great franchise", and it will be a PS3 exclusive. No details were offered on just what that franchise might be--or when it will be released--but according to Gamespot UK, it won't be LA Noire.

In explaining why Sony locked up the game, the article quotes SCEA's director of Third-party relations, Michael Shorrock, who wrote on the official US PlayStation blog: "Rockstar really wanted to make a game that you can truly only do on PS3, harnessing the power of CELL and Blu-ray disc, and this deal lets them do just that."

That's exciting news for PS3 fans. Of course, if the game is as great as Rockstar says it is, we might not see it until 2009 or 2010. By then, any AAA PS3 game will be so massive in scope that it won't fit on a DVD, only a Blu-ray disc. Maybe that's why Shorrock was saying that the mysterious franchise would only be playable on a PS3.

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Japanese porn industry goes HD Blue

Caroline McCarthy, Crave.com | Aug 01, 2007

They haven't put out a press release about it or anything, but the signs are pointing to a decisive victory of Blu-ray over archrival HD-DVD when it comes to the Japanese smut industry. A PC World article writes that Sony, manufacturer of the Blu-ray Disc, has been offering more technical support to Japan's adult film companies. At the Adult Treasure Expo 2007 in Chibo, Japan, filmmakers attested to this and said that it's no longer as difficult for them to find mass production outlets.

In the US, HD-DVD has an edge in the porn industry for a variety of reasons; it's cheaper, arguably easier to use, and the big companies backing it (Microsoft and Toshiba) have been more supportive of not-so-family-friendly titles than Blu-ray overlord Sony. Part of this is due to the fact that movie powerhouse Disney won't put its movies on Blu-ray if the disc technology's parent company partners with adult film studios. But in Japan, the climate is a bit different, thanks largely to a Taiwanese company that has obtained Blu-ray manufacturing equipment from Sony and has helped out with the production process.

So far, 10 Blu-ray porn titles have been released in Japan, including Sex Vacation in Guam and Eroist. In contrast, only one has been released on HD-DVD.

The porn industry occupies a notably different cultural role in Japan than it does in the US, with adult publications readily available in vending machines and elsewhere, so it's likely that the industry's adoption of Blu-ray technology may mean something rather different than it does stateside. Add that to the fact that Blu-ray has shown strong signs of a lead in the non-porn video market, and we might have a real winner.