14 DAY TRIAL // Sony Computer Entertainment has announced that the much awaited firmware update that is set to add three dimensional gaming and video capabilities to the PlayStation 3 home console will be arriving at some point during the month of October.
Originally Sony talked about adding 3D to its gaming platform during September, with an announcement made at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas at the beginning of the year.
The new announcement was made by Howard Stringer, the Chief Executive Officer of the company, at the International Franchise Association Trade Show that is taking place in Berlin.
Sony says that the PlayStation 3 will be able to use three dimensional rendering capacity to show off photos and videos in a new way.
There are more than 50 million people who are using the PlayStation 3 at the moment and the addition of 3D is a way to also boost sales of television sets that support the technology.
To increase customer interest Sony is also planning to release movies like Alice in Wonderland, Michael Jackson's This Is It, Avatar, the Green Hornet and Spider Man 3 in full 3D using the Blu-ray format that the PlayStation 3 supports.
Sony is pretty interested in pushing the combination of 3D and motion tracking technology as the future of video games, hoping to capture more of the market than Microsoft, who is not yet pushing three dimensions as something crucial to the Xbox 360.
The PlayStation Move peripheral is launching this month and will add motion tracking support to the home console, with software support initially offered by titles like Sports Champions, TV Superstars and Michael Jackson The Experience.
The company will also launch more hardcore titles that support 3D and Move like Killzone 3 and Resistance 3 but those titles will only arrive in 2011.
It's not clear how many gamers are ready to adopt three dimensional gaming, mainly because of the costs associated with it.