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In 2012, Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation might launch smartphones that have been PlayStation-certified, recent reports on the matter suggest. Apparently, HTC Corporation is planning to make an official announcement on this as soon as the Mobile World Congress kicks off in Barcelona later this month. ... |
14 February 2012
11:06 GMT |
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The PlayStation Vita handheld from Sony might be performing under expectations on the Japanese market, but at least one major video game developer believes that the device will find an audience in the West once it launches in late February.
Speaking to the PlayStation 3 Magazine, Ken Levine said, “It’s a... |
10 February 2012
12:11 GMT |
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Here's another piece of news related to Sony's gaming console, but this time we're talking about the PS Vita.
The Japan-oriented portable PlayStation console dubbed Vita receives new firmware and we're also offering a download link for the said software. Like with most similar products, the manuf... |
8 February 2012
10:54 GMT |
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Sony, the company which maintains the PlayStation brand of video game devices and a number of other electronics lines, has announced a loss of 2.09 billion dollars (1.642 million Euro), for the third fiscal quarter, which ended on December 31, and mentioned that the flooding in Thailand was to blame for the dip.
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3 February 2012
03:04 GMT |
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Microsoft might not be ready to talk about its next home console, but at least one analyst believes that the company is very well positioned to dominate the coming hardware generation as long as it plays its cards right. Scott Steinberg, a marketing expert and an analyst watching the video game industry, tells Indus... |
2 February 2012
16:41 GMT |
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Sony, a company that deals in video games but also a range of other electronic devices, has officially announced that Kaz Hirai, who has been the leader of the PlayStation division of the company, will become both the president and the chief executive officer on the first day of April, replacing Howard Stringer.
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2 February 2012
02:59 GMT |
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Video game publisher Sony has announced that the Media Molecule create platformer Little Big Planet has managed to attract no less than 6 million user-created levels and original video games, all of which can be downloaded from the PlayStation Network service for the PS3.
Little Big Planet was originally launched in... |
1 February 2012
13:21 GMT |
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A representative from Sony claims that his company has done more to cultivate relations with third-party developers than competitors like Microsoft or Apple. Speaking during the recent CES 2012 event, Jack Buser, who is the leader of the Home division at Sony Computer Entertainment, stated, “We have a 15 year ... |
24 January 2012
10:22 GMT |
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The PlayStation Vita handheld from Sony has not managed to perform too well on the Japanese market, where it arrived late in December, but one of the leading developers of the new hardware says that from a technical standpoint it represents a significant evolution over the PSP, especially when it comes to the screen ... |
20 January 2012
17:11 GMT |
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The Nintendo 3DS handheld has managed to once again top the hardware chart for the Japanese market as compiled by tracking firm Media Create as the newly launched PlayStation Vita from Sony has dropped to the lowest sales level since its late 2011 launch.For the week that ended on January 15 the Nintendo 3DS has mana... |
19 January 2012
09:23 GMT |
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Sony releases the latest firmware for their Japan-oriented PlayStation portable console dubbed Vita, and recommends that users should upgrade their software. The 1.52 firmware version solves some issues reported by users as Sony claims, though few words on the specific problems have gotten out so far except for some ... |
17 January 2012
10:30 GMT |
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The PlayStation Vita is set to release in Europe and North America on February 22 and a lot of industry watchers will anxiously watch launch day for clues about the long term prospects of the new gaming handheld from Sony.But another big gaming market, Australia, is set to get access to the Vita during next day and u... |
17 January 2012
02:49 GMT |
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December 2011 has been a worse than expected month for the video game industry in the United States and the numbers released by tracking firm NPD Group have shown that hardware has been particularly hard hit, posting a decline of 28 percent when compared to the same period of 2010.The value shown by the NPD is of 1.3... |
13 January 2012
04:19 GMT |
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Sony has just deployed a brand new video that shows off one of the Augmented Reality mini-games that will be bundled with the PlayStation Vita, in the form of Table Football (or Table Soccer, as it will be known in the U.S.).The PlayStation Vita is getting ready for its global release at the end of February and Sony ... |
12 January 2012
05:22 GMT |
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Nanea Reeves, who is a chief product officer working at Gaikai, has told IndustryGamers at the CES 2012 event that, “Not all of the current console makers will have one more generation. That will be the big news at E3.”We already know that Nintendo is planning to launch the Wii U home console at some poin... |
12 January 2012
05:20 GMT |
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Electronic consumer giant Sony has announced at the CES 2012 trade show in Las Vegas that it would expand the Sony Entertainment Network, which has grown from the PlayStation Network, as a central hub which will deliver content and experiences to the PlayStation line of entertainment consoles, the Xperia smartphones,... |
11 January 2012
04:07 GMT |
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GameStop, the biggest specialist retail chain linked to video games, is seen by many as a barometer for the health of the industry overall and two analysts believe that in the coming year the company will perform well mainly because of the launch of new gaming hardware.Michael Pachter, who is an analyst looking at th... |
10 January 2012
19:51 GMT |
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The NPD Group, the company that tracks retail sales of video games and hardware for the United States market, is set to launch its official figures for December In the coming days and at least one prominent analyst believes that the industry will grow by about 2 percent when compared to the same period of 2010 while ... |
10 January 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Kaz Hirai, who is the leader of the consumer products division at video game publisher and hardware developer Sony, has officially announced that, at the moment, the sales numbers for new the PlayStation Vita handheld stand at just over 500,000.This is the exact number of devices that Sony has shipped to retail chain... |
10 January 2012
09:51 GMT |
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A report in the Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu, compiled by Entertbrain, shows that the Japanese video game retail market has fallen 8 percent in terms of value during 2011 when compared to 2011, even as overall hardware sales managed to grow.The overall value of video game related sales in Japan for 2011 has been ... |
9 January 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Sony, the worldwide technology giant which also has a big presence in the video game space, has denied rumors that it plans to replace current president Howard Stringer with Kaz Hirai, who is well known to gamers for the prominent role that he has played in the development of the PlayStation hardware and associated v... |
9 January 2012
09:14 GMT |
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The PlayStation Vita is getting ready for its launch in February, but games industry analysts are unsure about its chances of success. Some believe that first-party games might save it, while others say that it will only end up damaging Sony’s image.
While the PlayStation Vita isn’t doing so well in its ... |
5 January 2012
18:31 GMT |
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Sony has revealed a few more interesting details about its upcoming PlayStation Vita handheld console, including some interesting tidbits about early versions of the device, which featured different designs such as sliding ones, like on the PSP Go, or clamshell ones, like the Nintendo 3DS.The PlayStation Vita is alre... |
27 December 2011
19:21 GMT |
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Sony has confirmed that its upcoming PlayStation Vita handheld console already has a huge variety of games set to appear for it, even saying that titles are already scheduled to be released up until 2013, although surprises can always appear.The PlayStation Vita has made its debut in Japan and is getting ready for it... |
22 December 2011
03:26 GMT |
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The PlayStation Vita has been launched in Japan for close to one full week and the developers at Sony working on the hardware and the software for the device are already looking to the future, with the Augmented Reality features of the device one possible focus.Shuhei Yoshida, who is a vice president at Sony Computer... |
21 December 2011
17:21 GMT |
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Sony is selling two gaming capable handheld devices at the moment, the Vita and the Xperia Play phone, but one leading executive says that the two are not competing with one another despite relying on the same PSN service for content.John Koller, who is the director of hardware marketing at Sony, told IndustryGamers ... |
21 December 2011
10:38 GMT |
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The PlayStation Vita launched on December 17 on the Japanese market and it took just two days for gamers to begin talking about problems with the device, some of them appearing after players applied the firmware update that Sony released for it.The reported problems included crashing, lag when playing and accessing c... |
20 December 2011
08:31 GMT |
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Video game publisher and hardware creator Sony has launched an English version of the manual for the PlayStation Vita online, allowing all those who speak the language to take a closer look at how the features of the new device will work.The move is somewhat surprising because the device is only set to launch on West... |
20 December 2011
05:29 GMT |
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Reports from tracking firm Enterbrain as seen in the magazine Famitsu are saying that on December 17 and 18 the PlayStation Vita handheld from Sony has managed to sell 321,407 device on the Japanese market.This means that the new device has managed to sell better than the original PSP, which moved 166,074 units durin... |
20 December 2011
04:15 GMT |
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Sony has confirmed that it’s planning to target with the upcoming release of the PlayStation Vita lots of audiences, from the regular core gamers, to even the female demographic which, in the mind of the PlayStation Europe boss Jim Ryan, is the “untapped holy grail” of gaming.The PlayStation Vita is... |
20 December 2011
03:17 GMT |
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Barely has the PlayStation Vita handheld console been released in Japan and already Sony has pushed a firmware update for the device, taking it to version 1.50.Japanese gamers eagerly awaited December 17, as Sony finally released the PlayStation Vita portable console, after hyping it up with a passion in the last few... |
19 December 2011
14:31 GMT |
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Barely has the PlayStation Vita been released in its native Japan and already quite a few customers are complaining that their new handheld consoles are faulty, some citing frequent freezing, which means they need to do a hard shutdown, or issues relating to the OLED touchscreen of the device, which can’t be fi... |
19 December 2011
10:11 GMT |
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The Firmware xTractor is the most popular tool for extracting the firmware of the newly-released gaming console Sony PS Vita. It has now been upgraded to version 2.01.The new version has received a Download FW option, which seems to have been requested by users, and various minor working fixes, including a filename f... |
19 December 2011
10:04 GMT |
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Sony's newest portable gaming console, Vita, receives firmware 1.50 these days. Unlike other firmware you might be accostomed to, the Sony Vita can only be updated using the Internet connection or a PlayStation 3 connected to the Internet.As Sony PS 3 has received firmware 4.00, the console can easily become you... |
19 December 2011
08:42 GMT |
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You'd think that PlayStation game console controllers wouldn't be more than that, but Sony begs to differ, since it is implementing support for them in other devices as well.
In this case, the Japanese company is bringing PS controller compatibility to the Tablet S.
So far, only 32-bit games from the ag... |
16 December 2011
16:51 GMT |
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While the PlayStation Vita is scheduled to appear in western territories this February, Canadian gamers might be forced to endure a delay of the higher priced 3G model of the handheld console, presumably due to a problem with the current infrastructure of Sony’s 3G partner from that country.The PlayStation Vita... |
16 December 2011
12:41 GMT |
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The Nintendo 3DS has managed to deliver its best ever week in terms of sales on the Japanese hardware market as the launch of the Capcom made Monster Hunter 3G managed to give the platform yet another push, according to data compiled by Media Create for the week that ended on December 11.The 3DS is in impressive form... |
15 December 2011
10:40 GMT |
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The NPD Group has released its hardware and software charts for the month of November and the United States market, showing that the Xbox 360 home console from Microsoft has managed to take the top spot for the fourth month in a row.The device has managed to sell 1.7 million units during the month, many of them on Bl... |
12 December 2011
08:54 GMT |
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Sony has just deployed a brand new update for its PlayStation Home online service, bringing a wealth of improvements as well as doubling the limit of personal items a user can have, from 50 to 100, thus answering the pleas of lots of Home users.PlayStation Home may have started off as an offbeat project for PlayStati... |
9 December 2011
03:06 GMT |
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The launch of Mario Kart 7 has made a big impression on the Japanese video game market, with the Nintendo 3DS handheld once again leaping over the 200,000 unit mark in terms of sales, according to the information on sales provided by Media Create for the week that ended on December 2.The three dimensional capable dev... |
8 December 2011
08:41 GMT |
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Sony has confirmed what’s next for the marketing efforts of its PlayStation 3, as the company now wants to promote the device as a family-friendly console, which can appeal to younger audiences.The PlayStation 3 was thought, for long, as a hardcore only device, largely because the Wii managed to take over casua... |
7 December 2011
03:23 GMT |
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Analysts watching the video game industry have predicted that the Xbox 360 home console from Microsoft will dominate sales for the month of November on the United States market in the NPD Group figures that will be released towards the end of the week.In a note sent to investors Michael Pachter, who is the analyst wo... |
6 December 2011
20:51 GMT |
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A comment from a Sony spokesperson, made to a website which focuses on cheaper video games, suggests that buying downloadable games for the upcoming PlayStation Vita handheld might be significantly cheaper than buying retail packages.The Sony representative said that packaged games will cost at the most 40 dollars or... |
6 December 2011
12:11 GMT |
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The Japanese division of Sony has launched the first full commercial for the PlayStation Vita handheld, after putting out a teaser earlier, and it’s rather tame by the standards that the brand has set in the home market.The main character is an actor named Eita Nagayama, who has some measure of popularity after... |
5 December 2011
13:11 GMT |
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Just days after PS Vita has been released, here comes a nice tool destined to help Sony PS developers achieve better results: the PS VITA Firmware xTractor 2.00.This release is part of the Homebrew Community and is intended to let the developers extract the firmware of any PS Vita. Since no official firmware has been... |
5 December 2011
10:25 GMT |
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It seems that a gaming console does not become a universally wanted shopping item until someone is desperate enough to pepper spray a crowd of fellow shoppers in order to get his hands on it.
Jesse Divnich, who is an analyst watching the video game industry for EEDAR, told IndustryGamers that, “I believe once ... |
5 December 2011
02:31 GMT |
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Ken Kutaragi, one of the developers who was involved with the development of all PlayStation gaming platforms until now, has said that he and a number of other members of the “old guard” of the company are working on a secret new project.He refused to offer any details on what that might be, saying that o... |
2 December 2011
07:34 GMT |
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Time might move on inexorable towards the end of 2011 but the Japanese hardware chart seems to remain mostly unchanged regardless of the major shifts that take place in the video games top ten, as reported by tracking firm Media Create.For the week that ended on November 27 the Nintendo 3DS has seen another boost in ... |
1 December 2011
21:41 GMT |
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The Japanese division of Sony Computer Entertainment has announced the lists of video games that can be moved to the PlayStation Vita handheld using the new UMD Passport program, showing that a limited number of publishers are interested in supporting the program.There are 262 video games included in the current list... |
1 December 2011
18:01 GMT |
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The official PlayStation blog reveals that a new system software for Sony's PS3 gaming console will be released in a matter of days, most likely this very week. The new firmware release date is supposed to be part of a bigger event, namely the release of the PS Vita in Japan.One of the major features in the 4.00... |
1 December 2011
09:28 GMT |
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