Sony beefs up PS3 media ability (Reuters)
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 its main PS3 model in a bid to better compete with Microsoft Corp and Nintendo Co Ltd (7974.OS).
Sony Slashes $100 From Price of 80GB PlayStation 3 (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - On the heels of Microsoft's $50 price cut for the Xbox 360, Sony has announced a price cut of $100 for its 80GB flagship PlayStation 3 and said it is dropping the 40GB version of the PS3.
PlayStation 3 Update Boosts In-Game...
NewsFactor - In a move to compete with Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony is set to release the PlayStation 3 software update 2.40 on Wednesday.
06/30/08
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Xbox 360 Surges Past PS3, Beats Wii...
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...
09/17/08
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Resistance 2 gives PS3 devs a...
Resistance 2, the sequel to the first great PlayStation 3 game, is now on store shelves. It's a force to be reckoned with, as Insmoniac has created one of the best multiplayer...
11/10/08
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Sony announces further delays to its...
AFP - Sony's game unit said Tuesday it was delaying for the second time the launch of an online virtual universe for the PlayStation 3 because the service needs further...
04/22/08
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Sony announces further delays to its...
AFP - Sony's game unit said Tuesday it was delaying for the second time the launch of an online virtual universe for the PlayStation 3 because the service needs further...
04/22/08
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Sony again delays start of "Home"...
Sony is delaying the start of its Home virtual world for its PlayStation 3 video game machine until the second half of this year — the second time the Japanese electronics and...
04/22/08
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Japan: PS3 Catches Up to Wii, Xbox 360 on Life Support
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 to the publisher, Nintendo sold 235,990 Wii in a five week period ending June...
Sony PS3 catching up to Wii in Japanese sales (Reuters)
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 publisher said.
Nintendo Wii outsells PS3 3-to-1 in...
Reuters - Nintendo Co Ltd's (7974.OS) Wii game
console outsold Sony Corp's (6758.T) PlayStation 3 by 3-to-1 in
Japan in March but its DS handheld machine fell behind the ...
Macworld - Sony offers movie, TV downloads for...
Sony is offering movie and TV downloads for its PS3 and PSP video game consoles.
07/15/08
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Sony adds online movies to...
AFP - Sony on Tuesday added online movie sales and rentals to the repertoire of PlayStation 3 videogame console features.
07/16/08
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Sony says to put virtual ads in...
AFP - Sony announced Friday that it will start offering virtual advertising space in PlayStation 3 games as part of efforts to stem losses from the console.
07/11/08
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No plan to cut PlayStation 3 price:...
AFP - Sony has no plan to cut the price of its PlayStation 3 game console, the company's chief financial officer Nobuyuki Oneda said Friday.
07/11/08
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U.S. video game sales seen up 53...
Reuters - U.S. sales of video game hardware
and software rose 53 percent in June from a year ago, with
Konami Corp's "Metal Gear Solid 4" helping to fuel a dramatic
increase...
07/18/08
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Sony Making Play For Its PS3 Console (Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - More than two years into the current video game hardware cycle, Sony finds itself in the unusual position of third place behind rivals Microsoft and Nintendo.
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...
NPD: Nintendo Maintains Blistering...
June's 2008 NPD numbers are in, and while news that Wii and DS sales continue to cruise the stratosphere should only astonish rock-dwellers, the arrival of stealth-action...
U.S. video game sales seen up 53...
Reuters - U.S. sales of video game hardware
and software rose 53 percent in June from a year ago, with
Konami Corp's "Metal Gear Solid 4" helping to fuel a dramatic
increase...
07/18/08
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Java homebrew devkit for the PS3...
PSP hacker "FreePlay" has turned his gaze to the PS3, and come up with a method for the first PS3 homebrew outside of Linux and that little "hello world" proof of concept a few...
07/23/08
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Sony Confirms Pulling PS3 Firmware...
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The company released firmware 2.40 Tuesday, and reports of problems started flowing in soon after on the official PlayStation 3 message board.
Sony PS3 Update Locks Consoles, Web...
NewsFactor - Sony is feeling some gaming-division woes this week with a double PlayStation 3 whammy. First, Sony's PlayStation Web site fell victim to SQL-injection attacks. Now...
07/03/08
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PlayStation 3 System Update 2.4...
Now there's a surprise: Everyone says Sony's servers are getting hammered, but I just sucked the entire update down through a high latency 1.5 Mbps satellite straw in...
07/02/08
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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.
07/30/08
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Metal Gear Solid 4 for PS3 Goes on...
NewsFactor - Solid Snake has returned. The covert-operations hero of Metal Gear Solid has returned for the fourth and final release of the hit video-game franchise.