Sony kicked off the summer announcement season in a big way this past Tuesday at their Playstation Day event. While the lack of original IP announcements was disappointing, the details and release date information on a number of their high profile sequels painted a very healthy portrait of the Playstation 3 in 2008. Insomniac president Ted Price was on hand to show off multiplayer footage of Resistance 2, reaction to which was reasonably positive considering the game is still in such an early state. The assembled journos also got their first look at actual gameplay in MotorStorm 2, now titled MotorStorm: Pacific Rift, showing off greatly enhanced environmental interaction over 2007’s original. Other big first party news was firm release window information for Sony’s oft-maligned Killzone 2, now dated for February ’09 (presumably to allow Resistance 2 some breathing space in the shooter market,) an October release for the promising Little Big Planet, and a fall release window for Sony’s grand social networking space Home.
Our thanks go to Eurogamer for their killer liveblog coverage of the event. Hit them up here for more details on the press conference.