Sony unveils improved PlayStation Portable
September 2, 2008
Sales are improving in Japan for Sony Corp.'s PlayStation Portable handheld video game machine, and a beefed up version with a clearer display is expected to add momentum, a senior executive said Tuesday.
NPD: Nintendo Wii the top-selling, current-gen console
The Nintendo Wii has secured its place above the Xbox 360 in total units sold in the US, and six of the top ten games in June were on Nintendo consoles. It's good to be the king. Read More...
Analyst: PS3 Squeaks by Xbox 360, Wii Supplies Flat in August
NPD's official August 2008 sales numbers hit later this week, but for today, Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter has some intriguing prognostications about the PS3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii. For starters, Pachter's August 2008 predictions claim Sony's PlayStation... 
Nintendo profit up 34% as Wii...
Nintendo reports a rise in first-quarter profit of 34% as the Wii console extends its lead over Sony's PlayStation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360.
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Macworld - Sony reduces operating loss at...
Sony reduced the operating loss in its PlayStation division as revenue rose 10 percent.
Japan: PS3 Catches Up to Wii, Xbox...
In Japan, the Wii's lead over the PS3 shrank from six-to-one in May to just one-point-seven-to-one in June, according to Japanese magazine publisher Enterbrain. According...
Sony beefs up PS3 media ability ...
Reuters - Sony Corp (6758.T) said it would
rent and sell movies and TV shows over the Internet for its
PlayStation 3 video game console and double the hard drive
capacity of...
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Nintendo's Wii is the champion...
USATODAY.com - The Nintendo Wii remains the hottest selling next generation video game system, outpacing competing consoles for the 10th straight month.
Athletes play video games as Olympics...
Reuters - If 24-hour coverage of the Olympic Games in China isn't enough for fans, Sega has rolled out the official video game of the 2008 events in Beijing for PC, Xbox 360,...
Xbox 360 Surges Past PS3, Beats Wii in Japan
Buoyed by a new Square Enix roleplaying game and flagging Wii sales, the Xbox 360 outsold both the PlayStation 3 and Wii in Japan last week, according to data provided by publisher and market tracker Enterbain via Famitsu, as...
July NPD Sales Numbers Fire, Industry Volleys
July video game sales leapt an appreciable 28 percent over last year, the 360 and PS3 finished in a dead heat, and Nintendo creamed everyone, as usual. Overall video game sales were up an astonishing 35 percent year-to-date, prophesying...
Athletes play video games as Olympics...
Reuters - If 24-hour coverage of
the Olympic Games in China isn't enough for fans, Sega has
rolled out the official video game of the 2008 events in
Beijing for PC, Xbox 360,...
NPD: GTA IV Fastest Selling Game...
April can be the cruelest month, but not if you're Nintendo, which managed to sell 714,000 Wiis bolstered by hot-ticket games like Mario Kart, Super Smash Bros Brawl, and...
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Nintendo Q1 profit up 32 pct on Wii...
Reuters - Nintendo Co Ltd's (7974.OS) quarterly
profit rose 31.5 percent on the runaway success of its Wii game
console, but the Japanese video game maker kept its annual ...
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Nintendo rolls out Wii games, Sony...
Reuters - Riding the success of its popular
Wii video game console, Nintendo Co Ltd (7974.OS) on Tuesday
unveiled fresh titles for gamers to throw frisbees and rock on,
while...
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Nintendo shows off new Wii add-on
Nintendo unveils a highly-sensitive motion controller add-on for its Wii system at the E3 conference in Los Angeles.
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Video games a boon for families...
Families facing escalating household bills are turning to video games on the
Nintendo Wii and PlayStation 3 for affordable fun.
New Nintendo DS portable will come with camera
Nintendo's hit DS portable machine will come with a digital camera that will allow players to mix images, scribble on photos and create new faces, the Japanese game maker said Thursday.
At E3, video games shift their aim to casual players (USATODAY.com)
USATODAY.com - This year's downscaled E3 video game expo drew about 4,500 gamemakers, analysts, retailers and journalists to L.A. last week - less than a tenth of E3's size two years ago - even as the industry grew from $10.5 billion in 2005 to $18 billion in 2007.
Sony PS3 catching up to Wii in...
Reuters - Nintendo Co Ltd's (7974.OS) Wii game
console once again outsold Sony Corp's (6758.T) PlayStation 3
in Japan in June, but its lead is fading, a game magazine ...
What's Up with the Nintendo Wii?
Anyone noticed the recent dearth of intriguing, headline-grabbing games for the Nintendo Wii? Some 555,000 little white boxes leapt off store shelves in July U.S. sales,...
Despite Grand Theft Auto, Nintendo...
NewsFactor - With all the hubbub over Grand Theft Auto IV, the video-game world is anxious to learn how the blockbuster game really impacted industry sales. NPD Group's monthly...
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Nintendo wins over outside game...
Reuters - In the video game industry, the
spoils of the console wars come in the form of support from
third-party software publishers selling games to run on your
machine.
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NPD: May 2008 Game Sales Herald...
Grand Theft Auto IV sold well in May, but not well enough to conjure significant hardware sales for Sony and Microsoft, and Nintendo locked up the top two spots in hardware...
Macworld - Lineage online RPG makes a comeback
Lineage, an online role playing game that has been around for ten years, is getting a new lease on life.
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