Hi, this is Kyle, I’m a producer here at SCEA’s Santa Monica Studios. One of the titles I am working on, and quite frankly playing most often, is Heavenly Sword. I’ve read a lot of your comments on this blog about this title and I’m happy to confirm the reports that we’ll have a downloadable demo coming this week to the PLAYSTATION Store.
The complete game is still set for September, but I think you’ll find this demo is a great sample of what’s in store and it’ll certainly give you a good idea of the look and feel of the game. To set the stage here, at the beginning of this demo, our heroine, Nariko, gains consciousness after a violent encounter with the evil King Bohan and his army. Nariko learns that Bohan is holding her father, Shen, prisoner inside a massive temple complex so she sets out to fulfill her destiny and embarks on a quest for vengeance against the invading King and his army.
Keep a lookout for the demo on the PLAYSTATION Store this week, I’m anxious to read what you guys think of it.
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Sony guys—-
Just want to say thank you, Sony, very much for the 1.9 update and the upcoming demo. I’m having lots of fun with the 1.9, looking up and downloading all kinds of hi-res photos to show on my 40” Bravia.
Keep up the good work, and I know that the software engineers are fighting to give us the best experience we can possibly have in gaming today.
I still have no reason to buy any other of the competing next-gen consoles at this point—ya’ll are doing fine.
I’ll be playing Heavenly Sword like crazy, finding time between Stardust, and waiting until LAIR!!!——12
Thank you, Sony.
is it thursday yet?
ah .. woke up early .. back to sleep.
@deadxbabiesxinc
Change the slot that your PSone internal card is assigned to. That should work.
Thanks you Sony for your great feedback in this playstation blog. Keep the great software and system updates coming. Guess what I a getting for my father for a christmas present? Yes a Playstation 3 :) Thanks for all your hard work and improving the system software, programs, SOE and games.
Sounds cool, thanks for the update.
I’m looking forward to Lair moreso than this game, but this looks very good and I’ll definitely snag the demo immediately.
I wonder if there will be a Lair demo before release… ; )
Thank you so much Sony, I’ve been waiting for this opportunity to try this game which looks beautiful and I’ve believe it’s gonna be one of the best game this year.
@wasabinator
thanks for the tip
now
i’m going to watch d.gray man
and learn more japanese
sayonara
Yes, the last update added forced 24p Output, BUT there is still a chance to let people buy Blu-Ray movies without pain.
A screen will likely do one of the following when being force fed 24p:
* display it natively
* convert it to 48p
* convert it to 60p with frame lock – results in 3:2 judder
* convert it to 60p without frame lock – results in tearing (partial frame redraws, the image will look like it’s wobbling on horizontal pans)
* not display it at all
So for all those displays that do not accept a 24Hz signal (and they are a vast majority), a future update with 48Hz OUTPUT will fix this issue.
THEN and only THEN, buying Blu-Ray movies become a real satisfaction.
Thanks.
Looking forward to the demo.
More suggestions I’d like to see:
PS3:
1. Flash player support
2. A resolution option In the game information menu (triangle when the game is selected but not yet started). So for each game you can select the optimal resolution. So for Rainbow it’s 720, MLB 1080 etc… I hate having to switch this around everytime.
3. More video formats so I can make better use of the DLNA.
4. Have the PS3 show up as a drive on my PC, maybe this can be done already?
Others have commented on having the updates being too small and not enough features. Personally, I like getting smaller more frequent updates rather than waiting several months and getting a massive one. As one person stated, it keeps things fresh.
BLOG:
Strongly second the motion someone stated on having a poll for features. Why not have a poll of the top 10 features requested and have everyone choose 2. Maybe you leave out XMB in game or have it pre-selected & disabled in the poll since we know that one’s coming.
Thanks for 1.9 I appreciate the enhancements, these updates are great!
Sweeeeeeeeeeeet.
I want legend of dragoon from the psn classic section.. ASAP
@40cal
Oh right! I’ve been using my PS2 cards NOT PS1…duh! I dunno why I thought SotN was a PS2 game lol. Thanks!
I was almost excited about this game until I saw you guys took the easy way out and only made it 720p.
Any chance you’re going to throw a bone to the large number of 1080i only users or the users who’d like some 1080p games?
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@40cal
You see my other message to you?
-DH
This is the greatest news in the history of news! Ok probably not, but it should be the best demo yet on the PS Store!
Travis help a brotha out. We will be first two brothaz playing Heavenly Sword. LOL!!!
Just cuz a game is 720 doesn’t mean it’s not gonna look impressive. Considering MOST people have less than 1080 I think they’d rather go with the 720 with the greater chance of people having that. Seriously tho, 720 is great just like 60fps would be compared to 120. Sigma runs on 60fps and its amazing.
My most anticipated game of the year; thanks Sony!
Definitely looking forward to this. The Internet is for porn and demos.
amazing cover art-i’m impressed. if i weren’t a video game fan, this is the kind of cover that would make me stop and look at it in a best buy.
http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=ps3&view=by_date_ascending&message.id=1433718#M1433718
For anyone interested and ENJOYS the 1.90 firmware update. This site has packages of hi-res wallpapers, I personally like Package 8 so far :)
@274 there’s no reason you need to make excuses for their laziness. When a game support 1080, it supports 720 too, so then everyone can play it in whatever resolution they want. It also means the large number of users whose TVs cannot display 720p don’t then have to play the game in f-ing 480p as though we were on a f-ing ps2.
I heard it comes out tomorrow… I hope its true!!! …. :)
Great!!! This is awesome can’t wait till tomorrow :)
Keep the demo’s coming. The “other” console has a ton of demos, but PSN only has a few. Where’s all the EA demos?
I am so excited for this demo! Even my wife who has very little interest in games (despite my best efforts) thinks this game looks awesome. Tommorrow can’t come soon enough!
Does any1 know when Loco Roco is coming to PS Store?
I just ordered my PS3 for 529€ (still 730$ but incl. Tax and here in Germany we have 19% Tax)
Jeah!
Hope to get it on Friday :-) :-)
this sucks
japan got beaten
@192:
Don’t worry, Lairm is still coming out on August 14th in North America. It was pushed back to October 15th in Australia, and September 28th in Europe.
BTW, that Metal Gear Solid 4 gameplay footage was the greatest! MGS4 is going to be the most amazing game ever known to man.
This looks okay I guess. Will play the Deme, then I’ll decide if I’ll either get it or save the money for another game.
i’ve read that a R&CF:ToD (Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction) demo is coming soon, maybe this week can anyone confirm it? but if not this week, then when?
here’s a link to the “story”
http://gameinformer.com/News/Story/200707/N07.0723.1141.05128.htm
anyway great to see a heavenly sword demo, and keep up the great work guys
since you can hear me sony
here more a few idea
some kinda point system for every game purchase and download and show alittle picture
games you have
Rated T for Teen.
Great job sony!
Im glad to see most of your big games are rated T and not M(ature), ie Lair,Heavenly sword,Motorstorm, etc.
I think this will help sell more games, and I will be more interested.
If you look at the competition, Microsoft, you can see that all(most) of their big games are rated M(ature), yeah they still sell well.
But a Teen rating is a good thing
what
t is for children
m is for big boys like me
BLOOD AND GORE YAY
I can’t wait to get my hands on this game, but I want to know when/if we’re going to see a Lair demo.
M is for all in my book
[DELETED] this rating system
if spend 500 for a system
my kids can play anygame
i choose thats all m ,r ,t
Mr. Kyle,
I tip my hat to you good sir
Can’t wait!
@Deathalo
I will let you know when my fake Sony pack arives. LOL
are there any moderators on this board?
someone really needs to do an IP block on AssassinXIII
before someone hunts him down witha big stick :)
IS IT THURSDAY YET?
@Kyle Shubel
Take a break from work bro. Pop in and say hi. Tell Travis that I am still waiting for his review.
cant wait for the demo…
@mobiletone
yeah
someone really needs to do something to this jerk
BTW
who is AssasinXIII
never heard of him
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Wow if its true that this game will not support 1080 (upscaling at least) for displays that do not accept 720p then this is truely irresponsible that you guys would accept that loss in potential sales. I find it hard to beleive that the developers of this game would knowingly sacrifice profits to their studios and to Sony by not supporting this. There are alot of people who will not buy this game if it does not upscale and its just shameful if you guys allow a game with this much hype lose out on potential sales by ignoring this issue and this portion of your market by snubbing potential consumers.
I will never play hd games in sd and by not supporting 1080i this is what you are asking me to do in order to play – sad that there are many others
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=770141
http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=ps3&thread.id=1543693
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/07/25/xbox-live-bringing-comic-con-home/
what about you guys Sony? Oh thats right we are getting a demo or two… OK never mind you’re of the hook.
Wow if this does not support 1080(upscaling at least) then it is just shameful that the developers would accept such a loss in potential sales, its unbeleivable that a business model allows that you be willing to sacrifice this much potential profit by not allowing everyone with an HD tv to play an HD game in HD, its sad if this game with all its hype will not do as well as possible due to the sales you guys are losing out on by this decision – its irresponsible that you should make a decision that would lose this much money for your studio and Sony