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A new lighter and more power efficient version of the PlayStation 3 home console is reported to appear in the following weeks with retailers from around the world, depending on their current stocks.Sales of the PlayStation 3 home console really took off with the arrival of the revised PlayStation 3 "Slim" edition, wh... |
20 June 2011
04:35 GMT |
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A widely distributed report from the Japanese Nikkei site is saying that two companies deeply involved in creating components for the Nintendo Wii, Mitsumi and Hosiden, have been heavily hit by the decline in sales that the home console has seen this year, with revenues declining by as much as 50%. The two are said t... |
3 December 2009
03:02 GMT |
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Microsoft has outed the usual response to the figures released by the NPD Group for software and hardware sales for September in North America. The company is obviously happy to talk about the impressive numbers posted by Halo 3: ODST, developed by Bungie, managing to sell more than 1.5 million copies even though it ... |
21 October 2009
02:41 GMT |
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Sony was, undoubtedly, the company that had most to celebrate when the NPD Group sales figures for September were released. The PlayStation 3 managed to sell almost half a million consoles during the month, significantly more than the Xbox 360 and even more than the Nintendo Wii, and with three PS3 games breaking int... |
20 October 2009
15:11 GMT |
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The beginning of another week means that we have an update related to the hardware and software charts in the far away land of Japan. It seems to be a week without big surprises, with the PlayStation 3 Slim continuing to decline in sales slowly while the Nintendo DS dominates hardware.The Nintendo-made handheld has m... |
5 October 2009
04:39 GMT |
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The PlayStation 3 is cheaper and slimmer than it was at the beginning of the year. The Xbox 360 Elite also got a price cut to match that of the Sony home console. Even Nintendo lowered the price of the Wii to less than 200 dollars in order to attract new customers and stop the decline in sales it has been facing thro... |
2 October 2009
03:58 GMT |
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When Microsoft unveiled its motion tracking controller, it had a name ready to go, and, soon, a lot of people were talking about Project Natal and the possibilities it was opening up for game developers. Arguably, less buzz surrounded the Sony motion tracking solution, in part because the combination between the Sony... |
28 September 2009
17:31 GMT |
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Sony seems to be abandoning all the plans to allow gamers who own titles on the old UMD format for the PlayStation Portable to get them as a digital download on the new Go console, which is set to be released on October 1. Initially, Sony said that it was looking into the possibility of setting up a program allowing ... |
28 September 2009
13:31 GMT |
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The Japanese videogame market has been reinvigorated in the last few weeks by the release of the all new and cheaper PlayStation 3 Slim and by the launch of fresh Pokemon videogames. These twin forces seem, for the moment at least, to be holding up the market in preparation for the upcoming slew of releases that will... |
28 September 2009
04:58 GMT |
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Sony is on a roll. A month earlier, it announced that it would be launching a new version of the PlayStation 3 called Slim, which packed a 120 GB hard drive, offered a smaller profile, used less energy and, best of all, cost just 299 dollars. Now, the Japanese console manufacturer is announcing that a PlayStation 3 S... |
25 September 2009
05:34 GMT |
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Sony put on a big show at the Tokyo Game Show, showcasing both the results of the recently launched PlayStation 3 Slim and the prospects for the future, with an emphasis on the possibilities of the Sony motion-tracking wand. Kaz Hirai, who is the chief executive officer and the president of Sony Computer Entertainmen... |
24 September 2009
18:11 GMT |
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Nintendo has officially confirmed that it will be dropping 50 dollars from the price tag of the Wii home gaming console beginning with September 27 on the North American market. On October 1, a similar price reduction will take place in Japan, bringing the console down to the yen equivalent of 220 dollars. Apparently... |
24 September 2009
04:49 GMT |
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A leaked document apparently coming from SEGA of America has shown up on various Internet websites and seems to point at an intended collaboration between SEGA and Sony, while also detailing some interesting plans to bring PlayStation 2 video games and Dreamcast titles to the download section of the PlayStation Netwo... |
23 September 2009
17:01 GMT |
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Microsoft has announced that, between September 22 and October 5, it will be offering rebates worth 50 dollars for all those who buy an Xbox 360 gaming console. This is, basically, another price cut, albeit one that will only last for two weeks, bringing the most complete of the versions of the Microsoft home console... |
23 September 2009
03:05 GMT |
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The PlayStation 3 is now Slim and costs just 299 dollars. The Xbox 360 Elite recently went down to the same price. The Nintendo Wii is widely expected to be priced at 199 dollars beginning with October. Will these significant changes, executed in a short time frame, influence the market in the long term or will they ... |
22 September 2009
04:38 GMT |
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Microsoft has announced that Shane Kim, the face that has been long associated with the Microsoft Game Studios and with the Entertainment Business division, should retire from all his positions at the end of the year. Apparently, he plans to exit the videogaming business altogether and retire after about 19 years of ... |
16 September 2009
03:56 GMT |
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Yesterday, we talked about how Wal Mart, one of the biggest retailers of gaming consoles around, had already prepared an advertising flier about a price “rollback” for the Nintendo Wii.We chalked that up as being just a rumor but now the evidence is mounting and the possibility of the Nintendo home consol... |
15 September 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Sony released a new version of the PlayStation 3, styled Slim, but also cut the price of its gaming console significantly. Microsoft responded the same way, slashing the price of the Xbox 360 Elite version. Nintendo did nothing. Of course, the executives at the company talked about how their device was already well p... |
14 September 2009
17:31 GMT |
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The PlayStation 3 is the best sold console in Japan for the week that ended on September 6, managing to sell no less than 151,783 of the new Slim gaming consoles, which are cheaper, use less energy and occupy less space while offering the same performance when it comes to gaming as their bulkier cousins.This comes as... |
14 September 2009
14:21 GMT |
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With the PlayStation 3 Slim released on September 1, a lot of videogame fanatics are already wondering what Sony is planning next in its bid to get a 10-year life cycle for its console and to at least wrestle second spot from Microsoft's Xbox 360 for this generation. A few bits and pieces of information seem to ... |
11 September 2009
08:04 GMT |
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Sony announced and the quickly released the 6.00 firmware version for the PlayStation Portable handheld. Apparently, it's the second big update that Sony released for its gaming console in the last week and the reaction from the player base is a bit mixed, following the outcry that developed after the 3.00 firmw... |
10 September 2009
07:28 GMT |
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It seems that the PlayStation 3 Slim is having quite the impact on all the significant videogames markets. In Japan, the console is said by gaming magazine Famitsu to have moved around 150,000 units to gamers in the first three days. And now GamesIndustry.biz is saying that sales of the Sony made home gaming console ... |
9 September 2009
15:41 GMT |
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It was clear from the moment it was first rumored that the new version of the PlayStation 3 from Sony would make a big impact on the gaming world. After all, if only the initial promises of a lower profile, better power consumption and more efficient ventilation were fulfilled, gamers would have been interested in th... |
8 September 2009
06:49 GMT |
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Sony has offered an official response to the outcry from players related to problems they have been having with their systems and games after having upgraded to the newest firmware version, 3.00, which was released at the beginning of September to coincide with the street launch of the newest version of the PlayStati... |
7 September 2009
06:59 GMT |
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For the second week in a row, sales of the PlayStation 3 have fallen sharply on the Japanese market, as supply is dwindling and buyers are keeping their money in their pockets, getting ready to buy the PlayStation 3 Slim, with its sleek profile and its lower price, once it is widely available on sale.Meanwhile, the N... |
7 September 2009
05:23 GMT |
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Nintendo is clearly very fond of white. When the Wii home gaming console was initially launched in 2006, the Japanese manufacturer was talking about offering it in a variety of colors, including eye-popping red and mellow green, but it took it about 3 years just to move away from white and towards the other non color... |
2 September 2009
06:02 GMT |
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Does the price really matter? At one end, the answer seems to be yes. After all, Amazon has announced that it will have some issues shipping all the PlayStation 3 Slim consoles that have been pre-ordered, at the same time limiting each consumer to one purchase, and Microsoft has been very quick to cut the price of th... |
31 August 2009
15:01 GMT |
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The Japanese hardware chart is showing a steep fall in sales of the PlayStation 3 in the territory, as players who are interested in one of Sony's gaming consoles are holding off so that they can pick up the new PlayStation 3 Slim when it comes out at the beginning of September.The main reasons behind the waitin... |
31 August 2009
04:56 GMT |
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In September, both the Xbox 360 Elite from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 Slim from Sony will be retailing for the price of 299 dollars, which is 100 lower than in August. A cut of one third of the price of gaming consoles is pretty significant however you look at it and the impact on the videogame industry will lik... |
31 August 2009
02:23 GMT |
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GameStop has attracted many gamers’ antipathy. Some don't like it because it makes so much money on used games and because of the way it pushes blockbuster games to customers.Most big videogame publishers do not like it because it makes huge profits from used games sales, even though the industry benefits ... |
28 August 2009
12:51 GMT |
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Sony has long struggled to actually position the PlayStation 3 and its overall home console business in a way that truly connected to gamers. Initially, the PS3 was said to be a “gamer's console,” offering power and exclusive titles.Then, it all became a “multimedia center,” which focused... |
28 August 2009
04:54 GMT |
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Microsoft has officially announced that it is cutting the prices of the Xbox 360 Pro and Elite just one week after Sony announced the new PlayStation 3 Slim and the fact that it would sell for 299 dollars when coming out on September 1. The interesting fact is that the Redmond-based company is basically shedding the ... |
28 August 2009
02:29 GMT |
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The PlayStation 3 is one of the most important consoles available on the market, largely because it is the most powerful one but also because it had quite a rocky start. Thanks to the newly announced PlayStation 3 Slim edition and a lower price, going down from $399 to just $299, the console is bound to gain sales mo... |
26 August 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Can Microsoft take the price of the various Xbox 360 versions even lower, after reducing them in September last year? This has been one of the main questions that videogame industry analysts and some gamers have been asking ever since Sony announced that the new PlayStation 3 Slim hardware would be delivered starting... |
26 August 2009
05:41 GMT |
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Kaz Hirai, who is the boss of Sony Computer Entertainment, is saying that the release of the PlayStation 3 Slim marks a new beginning for the console business of Sony and that the company will again become the leader of the videogaming market. The remarks were made to the Financial Times as part of a wide-ranging int... |
26 August 2009
03:54 GMT |
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With the PlayStation 3 Slim announced by Sony at Gamescon and confirmed as arriving on most markets on September 1, a lot of people are now wondering how Microsoft and Nintendo, the two rivals of the Japanese manufacturer, are preparing to respond to the new hardware unveiled and to the price cut attached to it. We m... |
26 August 2009
02:35 GMT |
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The PlayStation 3 console was a big gamble for Sony as it was one of the last devices to be launched around the world while at the same time the most expensive one. The fact that it was packed with high-end features like a Blu-ray player or multimedia capabilities made some people buy it, but for a lot of time the ma... |
25 August 2009
03:23 GMT |
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After Sony announced last week that it would release the PlayStation 3 Slim, a new hardware revision of its home console, reactions kept pouring in. Now, John Riccitiello, the Chief Executive Officer of Electronic Arts, has praised Sony's move saying that the new price is right and that the timing of the announc... |
25 August 2009
03:10 GMT |
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The PlayStation 3 has had a pretty troubled lifetime up until now, particularly as regards the backward compatibility feature that made plenty of Sony fans rapidly adopt the highly priced console when it was first launched because it supported PS2 games. But after a short period of time, the Japanese company release... |
24 August 2009
15:01 GMT |
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At GameCon last week, Sony at last unveiled what was a long known secret for much of the public, the PlayStation 3 Slim, the new revision of its home console set to challenge both the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the Nintendo Wii for sales numbers during this holiday season.Now, Amazon is announcing that the device, w... |
24 August 2009
03:54 GMT |
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As you all know, yesterday reputed electronic and gaming company Sony held its press conference at the GamesCon event, which is unfolding in Cologne, Germany. It was a highly anticipated day, as many gamers and game journalists wanted to see which rumors regarding the Japanese company would come true. One of the mos... |
19 August 2009
02:33 GMT |
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The PlayStation 3 is currently the most powerful game console available on the market, but this hasn't guaranteed the success that Sony wanted for its device. Its high price tag and rather bulky design made fans orient themselves towards the Nintendo Wii or the Xbox 360. But it seems that things might change in... |
5 August 2009
03:09 GMT |
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The console war has been waged on many different fronts, including bundles, statements or feature races, but a sensitive issue has always been the price/quality ratio, as many users preferred the lower-priced Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii to the higher-priced PlayStation 3. This led to a slow adoption rate for Sony'... |
30 June 2009
15:01 GMT |
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