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.
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).
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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Sony Making Play For Its PS3 Console...
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...
06/13/08
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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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Macworld - Is Sony's PS3 really a sinking ship?
CNN has declared Sony's PS3 "a sinking ship" riffing off last Thursday's "plummeting" NPD sales results. CNN bases its gloomy...
12/15/08
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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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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.
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 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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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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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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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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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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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...
Resistance 2 gives PS3 devs a blueprint for online play
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 shooters on the platform—the game a must-buy for PS3 owners this holiday season. 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...
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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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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July NPD Sales Numbers Fire, Industry...
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...
08/15/08
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Sony plans no PS3 price cuts at...
Reuters - Sony Corp (6758.T) does not plan to
announce price cuts to its flagship PlayStation 3 games console
at Europe's biggest video games fair in Leipzig, Germany next ...
08/15/08
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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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Xbox 360 outsells PS3 in Japan for...
AFP - Microsoft's Xbox 360 has outsold Sony's PlayStation 3 in Japan for the first time, helped by the popularity of the new role-playing game "Tales of Vesperia," a recent...
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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Xbox 360 beats PS3 in Japan ...
Reuters - Microsoft Corp's Xbox 360 beat
Sony Corp's (6758.T) PlayStation 3 in Japan weekly sales for
the first time two weeks ago, riding robust demand for a recent
Xbox...