I am here at the Sony keynote without wifi access, so no liveblog, so I will be just writing things down and submiting when I get back to the West Hall.

So they have these large soccer balls like you see in stadiums with goals on each side of the room.  I don't think anyone really knows what is going on with these soccer balls, but people seem to be enjoying it.  On the screens they have a score for each side side and Team B won, but a little unsure what Team B wins.

Some guy from GDC is talking about how cool and smart of a guy Phil Harrison is.  blah blah blah.

Phil has started talking, and going to theme his sessions Game 3.0, which ahigh focus on player content and you (the gamer).  Phil is using a PS3 as his presentation tool, he has a controller in his hand using it like powerpoing.  He is talking about Web 2.0 and moving that into games.  Game 1.0 static disconnected console.  Game 2.0, using static game content but connected device.  Web 3.0 is powered by active communities connected through the internet.  Content powered by the audience.  Announcing home, which launches this year.  home icon added to the cross bar.  Phil Hands off to some other guy.

So they appear they are having problems with the input feeds, and the input is rotated.  So they finally got it running.  and we get EULA, just like the user.  home has a very real look and characters, along the lines of The Sims, but even more real.  Phil is talking about how your avatar can change via what you wear and buy new clothes via the Playstation Store.  Dynamic advertizing banners within home and streaming video within the home world.  The interface looks very similar to Phantasy Star Online areas.  Within the world, you can play all types of games such as pool and bowling, as well as walk up to arcade machines and play them.  Within home you have your own apartment, which you can customize in any form you wish.  It looks very similar to the 2k rooms.  You can download new items that coule tierh be free or cacn be bought in the Playstation Store.  You can hang pictures, and any content that is on your PS3 hard drive can be displayed within the picture frame and players who visit your apartment can see those photos.  You can also place a television in your apartment and select any video on your hard drive and that video is streamed to to anyone who visits your apartment.  As well as personal locations they have themeed and sponsored locations such as a movie theatre where you can view all the latest trailers or possiblity full movies.  While watching these movies or listenting to audio you can continue to chat with others in the same room you are in.  Developers will have access to build their own themed areas using game assets.  Phil said that the tools will be provided and the worlds can be made within maya.  As well as your personal space, you will have your trophy room, which are achievements for games.  These trophies can be 3D models, 2D billboard, or even video.  Home will be free and launches beta April 2007 and lauches retail Fall 2007.

Phil is now talking about Singstar.  It really looks like something like myspace karaoke.  You can see other friends and what they are singing as well as buy new songs.  You can share your recorded audio and video, which those can be ranked, voted, and commented on.  Singstar is coming out in PAL in May/June and later this year for the US.

Playstation EDGE announcement.  How this will help making PS3 games.  GCM Replay which is a powerful RSX profiling tool, and SPU geometry processing, animation, and compression.

LittleBigPlanet is announced.  The game is being developed by the Ragdoll KungFu team,  You have this avatar and can use the sticks to move hands and the siaxis to move his head.  You can add objects which all have physics.  You can place any image on your hard drive and place them on surfaces as 'stickers'.  Long demo of a level created with the actual game tools, and after you create a level you can share it online with friends via the Playstation Network.  The demo level was extremely impressive.  Has a very strong Nitnendo feel.