Sony CEO, Sir Howard Stringer, gave his keynote at CES last night in Las Vegas. The speech saw much non-games hoopla about movies (yes, Blu-ray), televisions, and even 3D displays. It featured appearances from Tom Hanks, Usher, John Lasseter (Pixar), a baseballist called Reggie Jackson, and some chap we've absolutely never heard of called Mehmet Oz who talked about belt-sizes and fitness.

Stringer himself has either been working out or working every single hour available to him (and possibly some more created especially by the Sony board) because the man has certainly dropped some pounds and gained some grey since last year's CES (see the composite image to the right). Looks like 2008 has taken its toll on the Welsh wizard one way or another.

On the PlayStation/gaming front, Kaz Hirai was brought front and centre to deliver the following info:

- LittleBigPlanet has sold more than 1.3 million units.

- Sony has partnered with Viacom's MTV Networks for an initial 2,000 hours of MTV show delivered to PS3 and PSP via the Sony Video Delivery Service.

- 2.1 million new PSN accounts were created in December. There are now 17 million.

- 330 million items have been downloaded from the PlayStation Store.

- The PlayStation 4 is due out in 2011 in partnership with Nintendo and SEGA.

No! We made that last one up in order, frankly, to make the keynote a littlebigbit interesting.