Sony ’s PS3 trails its rivals in shipments and remains a financial
disaster for the company, as market experts believe that Sony will
never be able to entirely recoup an estimated $2.5 – $3.0
Monday, December 29, 2008 13:36
THQ and Nvidia announced yesterday they've signed an agreement to bring Nvidia's PhysX technology, "the worlds most pervasive physics solutions for designing real-time, real-world effects into inter
Friday, December 19, 2008 08:13
...arently able move more than 2 million
consoles last months. Microsoft also had an excellent month, but Sony ’s
PS3 is clearly trailing its rivals at this time: Only one out of ten
game consoles sold...
Friday, December 12, 2008 02:18
... headlines lately and there was not really a whole lot positive
to say about the Playstation 3 lately. Sony ’s game console desperately
needs new reasons why people should choose the platform – and t...
Thursday, December 11, 2008 16:19
Sony today announced that Playstation Home will finally launch as
an open beta tomorrow. Designed as a virtual world and social
networking platform for Playstation 3 owners, it has been
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 13:45
...00 Xbox 360 units in November of last year, while Nintendo shipped 981,000 Wiis in the same time frame. Sony sold 466,000 PS3 s in November 2007 and may have a tough time hitting the same result again....
Tuesday, December 09, 2008 12:18
..., while the company sold 2,588,900 units in the same time frame last year. In comparison, Nintendo and Sony are well ahead of their 2007 results – Nintendo with 6,136,600 vs. 3,958,400 Wiis and Sony ...
Wednesday, December 03, 2008 13:43
...onsole had its most successful
Black Friday yet, selling 25% more units than in 2007 – and outselling
Sony ’s PS3 by a ratio of 3:1. Redmond (WA) – Microsoft said that its Xbox 360 game console had i...
Tuesday, December 02, 2008 13:24
...
that may seal the console’s fate as the losing platform of the
current-gen console battle: A Spanish Sony executive recently said that
GT5 will finally be launched in the Christmas time frame – th...
Tuesday, December 02, 2008 00:03
Microsoft and Nintendo saw substantial upticks in their console
shipments in October, while Sony experienced another drop and the
lowest results since April of this year, according to market
Friday, November 14, 2008 10:47
...es of its Wii Fit game and accessory, which sold 518,000 times during the month. Slowly but surely, Sony may be concerned about its PS3 . In comparison to its rivals, sales have been weakening over...
Friday, October 17, 2008 10:34
Sony will begin offering the 80 GB Playstation 3 with a rumble pack
wireless controller this month in Japan. The 40 GB version will be
transitioned into “open” pricing. Tokyo (Japan) – Sony w
Friday, October 10, 2008 00:01
... than expected, given the high cost and limited success of the
current Playstation 3. The key message: Sony will cut down the
production cost of the device and will compete much more in the market
...
Wednesday, October 01, 2008 14:22
...or the Wii and the PS3 , while the Xbox 360 had a
softer landing and was able to grow its market share. Sony may have to
act soon and drop the price of its PS3 . Analysis & Charts – Victory and de...
Friday, September 12, 2008 00:46
...mpany that is a significant road block in that path. Microsoft is waging battles on too many fronts and Sony is focused on its PS3 . Apple posted $819 million in "other music-related prod...
Tuesday, September 09, 2008 21:50
... instead of $449. Microsoft’s pricing compares to $249 for the Nintendo Wii and at least $399 for the Sony PS3 80 GB. If the fact that the Xbox 360 Arcade has no hard drive storage out of considerat...
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 17:59
Sony ’s Playstation Portable (PSP) will see its first major feature
update next month: Scheduled for an October 16 launch in Japan, the new
PSP-3000 is positioned to challenge Nintendo’s DS co
Tuesday, September 02, 2008 11:08
Samsung and Sony are showcasing their latest Blu-ray player flagship
models at the IFA 2008 tradeshow. Both players are priced outside the
mainstream market and may not see especially high pr
Thursday, August 28, 2008 10:03
...ing units, according to the statistics released by Folding@Home. The second most powerful platform is Sony ’s PS3 with 1251 TFlops (44,379 processors), followed by ATI Radeon graphics cards with 404 ...
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 12:12
Qimonda AG has announced that it has started shipping XDR DRAM in volume for the Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3 ) game console. Qimonda started to ship first samples of the 512Mb XDR DRAM in January 200
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 09:29
...g move? Microsoft usually has a tough time grabbing positive video game headlines against Nintendo and Sony , but we are sure that Microsoft is celebrating at least this week. According to a Reuters a...
Monday, August 18, 2008 11:53
... However, 555,000 Wiis translate into a sharp decrease from the 667,000 units the company sold in June. Sony sold 225,000 PS3 , down from almost 406,000 in June, while the Xbox 360 dropped to 205,000 f...
Thursday, August 14, 2008 18:29
Sony released the next firmware update for its PS3 game console. We will print the entire release description provided by Sony ’s Eric Lempel here: “Just wanted to give everyone a quick heads up th
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 11:16
Sony had a rough second calendar quarter (fiscal Q1 2008 for the
company) with profits plunging nearly 48% to $326.9 million while sales
inched up to $18.7 billion. However, the game segment
Tuesday, July 29, 2008 09:46
After a very rocky start, Sony is now much more optimistic about the
sales potential of its game console: Sony hopes the PS3 will outsell
the PS2 eventually. Chicago (IL) – After a very rocky
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 12:00
...0 stands at 10,465,900 units. The PS3 still trails the two with cumulative sales 4,851,100 units, but Sony sold close to twice as many PS3 s in June as Microsoft sold Xbox 360s: NPD said that U.S. re...
Thursday, July 17, 2008 21:00
As part of its "video everywhere" strategy, Sony plans to marry
Internet-equipped Bravia HDTVs with Amazon's new video-on-demand
service to fight off increasing pressure from set-top box vend
Thursday, July 17, 2008 13:31
...ket is getting more interesting: Following
Microsoft’s time-limited price cut of the Xbox 360 Premium, Sony has
announced an upgrade of its 40 GB console to 80 GB, which could be
interpreted as a p...
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 10:00
...p, the Xbox 360 sold 186,000 units in the United States. The Wii sold 675,000 units in May, while Sony sold 208,700 PS3 consoles. Of course monthly sales figures only show one side of the coin....
Monday, July 14, 2008 15:10
Sony 's PlayStation 3, the 2007 loser in the fight for second place in video-game console sales, is gaining ground on Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360. The PlayStation 3 outsold the Xbox 360 in the U.S. i
Monday, July 14, 2008 09:06
...ns that the device now costs $299instead of $349, which means that the console is now $100 cheaper than Sony ’s 40 GB PS3 and just $50 more expensive than Nintendo’s Wii ($249). But on a closer look, i...
Monday, July 14, 2008 00:28
...e in May: 186,600 units were just slightly ahead of the Playstation portable, which sold 182,300 units. Sony sold 208,700 PS3 s and Nintendo 675,100 Wiis and 452,600 portable DS consoles. ...
Friday, July 11, 2008 15:55
After nearly two weeks of uncertainty regarding the PS3 firmware update 2.40, Sony has finally addressed the issue with firmware 2.41. The update provides the trophy support and in-game XMB that was
Tuesday, July 08, 2008 11:42
... number of issues for those who updated to the new release, as we reported earlier. It now appears that Sony has since pulled the newest update, reverting back to firmware 2.36 as the most recent avai...
Wednesday, July 02, 2008 17:49
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 one-point-five Mbps satellite straw in all of 15 minutes. T
Wednesday, July 02, 2008 14:15
...rs currently control almost 85% of the home video market – Warner holds 18.8%, followed by Fox (15.3%), Sony (13.5%), Paramount (13.4%), Disney (13.1%) and Universal (10.7%). Read on the next ...
Wednesday, July 02, 2008 00:23
Sony is currently preparing the release of its Playstation 3 firmware update 2.40, which the company claims will bring the most requested feature to the game console – an in-game Cross Media Bar (XMB
Monday, June 30, 2008 11:08
The Playstation 3 can be a significant contributor to your power bill,
but Sony is reacting to recent criticism with a third-generation
hardware version that we will be shipping this holiday
Friday, June 27, 2008 14:25
Sony will is ready to expand the content for its Playstation 3 (PS3 )
game console with a movie download service, the company said earlier
today. Tokyo (Japan) – Sony will is ready to expand t
Thursday, June 26, 2008 10:15
...de-scale adoption of the Cell BE processor, the only mass-market application use the technology remains Sony ’s Playstation 3 game console. Toshiba will take another shot at the architecture and build ...
Monday, June 23, 2008 12:55
A post on the PlayStation Blog by Eric Lempel, Sony 's Director of PlayStation Network Operations, has confirmed that, come firmware update 2.40, in-game XMB access is going to be added to the PS3 alo
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 11:27
...,640 PPE and SPE cores for a combined 130,536 cores. The Cell BE processors also represent the heart of Sony ’s Playstation 3 game console. The six fastest supercomputers in the world are installed in...
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 09:28
... said that it is only targeted at consumer electronics applications for now. In February of this year Sony announced that scaling the Cell BE chip to 45 nm is underway, with the die-size of the chip...
Monday, June 09, 2008 00:30
...-screen TVs are major electricity guzzlers, even when left on stand-by. The recent study by Choice said Sony 's Playstation 3, closely followed by Microsoft's Xbox 360 and plasma television sets, consu...
Wednesday, June 04, 2008 09:42
...ication that the “digital distribution business is one of the reasons Microsoft is so keenly focused on Sony , and not Nintendo” in this current state of the console battle. Kim noted that more than “3...
Friday, May 23, 2008 13:36
..., bromine or cadmium in its products. There are reasons why Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony do not advertise their game consoles as being especially environmentally friendly. One may ...
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 15:03
...Halo 3, Madden NFL 07, Madden NFL 08, Gears of War, Call of Duty 2, Call of Duty 3 and Call of Duty 4. Sony today said that it has sold 12.81 million PS3 consoles so far. The company did not break o...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 17:43
Sony ’s Playstation 3 has gained significant traction in Sony ’s FY2007
(April 1, 2007 to March 31, 2008): Surging sales and decreased
production expenses improved the company’s balance sheet,
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 13:35
...sp; Now it appears the issue is with the PS3 hardware itself, so a fix would need to come directly from Sony . Foster City (CA) - Soon after Rockstar Games released Grand Theft Auto IV on the Playstati...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 14:35
Despite Sony 's PS3 console being outsold by the Xbox 360 by more than two to one in the US, it managed to grab a healthy amount of the Grand Theft Auto IV sales. GTA IV broke game records aroun
Friday, May 09, 2008 10:55
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