.... In this case, it is worth a special note, as the Xbox
360 sold almost three times more units as the PS3 over the course of
one week. Nationally and internationally, the Xbox 360 and the PS3 seem
...
Monday, August 18, 2008 11:53
...soles on the market today. According to NPD, Nintendo’s once again won the contest against the PS3 and Xbox 360 easily and outsold each one by a margin greater than 2:1. However, 555,000 Wiis ...
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
...at it has sold a cumulative 29.6 million Wiis, which compares to 19 million Xbox 360s and 14.4 million PS3 s. Nintendo previously said that it expects to ship about 25 million Wiis during the current f...
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 09:56
...nit posted a profit and Playstation 3 sales more than doubled over the second quarter of 2007. Global PS3 sales came in at 1.56 million units, which is up 123% from the 700,000 units the company sold...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008 09:46
...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 start, Sony is now much m...
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 12:00
...ing to NPD, the Wii has now sold 11,008,200 units while the Xbox 360 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 m...
Thursday, July 17, 2008 21:00
...r. Sony bets that Bravia could push VoD to mass market the same way the PS2 pushed DVD format and the PS3 helped Blu-ray win the HD format war battle. ...
Thursday, July 17, 2008 13:31
...p 80 GB Playstation
3, despite the loss of PS2 compatibility. The decision between an Xbox
360 and a PS3 is now much less a question of cost, but a question of
how much the Xbox’ entertainment feat...
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 10:00
... extra for what isn’t worth anything extra and the Xbox 360 has a solid foundation to compete with the PS3 . ...
Monday, July 14, 2008 15:25
...rediction. Mattrick boldy declared reporters that the 360 would sell more consoles worldwide than the PS3 . According to May 2008 sales figures from the NPD market research group, the Xbox 360 s...
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
...vice 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, it isn’t a simp...
Monday, July 14, 2008 00:28
...he company to drop the price to make the package more attractive. On the other side, the Wii and the PS3 have significant momentum and are hurting Xbox 360 sales especially in Europe and Asia. Accor...
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
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
...es, Blu-ray looked like the losing HD format in 2006, but was able
to reverse the trend thanks to the PS3 in 2007, Microsoft has sold
316,000 now useless HD DVD add-ons for its Xbox 360 console and ...
Wednesday, July 02, 2008 00:23
...s “Trophy” system as a new community feature. Players can store awarded trophies and prizes within the PS3 ’s main menu and compare their achievements with the achievements of their friends. The compan...
Monday, June 30, 2008 11:08
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
...ut what sticks out of the product pages is the company’s “new quad-core HD processor”. Compared to the PS3 ’s 3.2 GHz Cell BE processor with eight SPE cores, the 65 nm SE1000 has only four active SPE c...
Monday, June 23, 2008 12:55
...rations, has confirmed that, come firmware update 2.40, in-game XMB access is going to be added to the PS3 alongside a new feature being referred to as "Trophies". Methinks something similar to Achiev...
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 11:27
The Top 500 supercomputing list has hit a new milestone. The most
recent ranking, released earlier today, includes the first
supercomputer that has broken the Petaflop barrier: The DOE’s
Roa
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 09:28
...the two consoles, hardly putting a dent in Microsoft's huge lead over the battle for total sales. 208k PS3 consoles were purchased last month and 186k Xbox 360s were snatched up by game rs. To date, 19...
Friday, June 13, 2008 19:40
Don't blame the fridge for your steep power bills - an Australian consumer agency study has found that videogame consoles and plasma flat-screen TVs are major electricity guzzlers, even when left on
Wednesday, June 04, 2008 09:42
...ed numerous emails and comments voicing doubt over the floating point capability of the RSX GPU in the PS3 . While original specs put the GPU at an official 1.8 TFLOPS spec, this number in fact appears...
Monday, May 26, 2008 19:18
...rlds of more casual, family-oriented gaming on the Wii and the expectations of “high-end” game s on the PS3 . Conceivably, this would put the Xbox 360 much closer to the Nintendo Wii, especially if thos...
Friday, May 23, 2008 13:36
...e today released detailed numbers on the concentration of
hazardous materials used to manufacture the PS3 , Xbox 360 and Wii game
consoles. The good news is that the findings reflect previous hazmat
...
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 15:03
...they show a commanding lead for Wii hardware sales despite some predictions that GTA IV would move the PS3 and Xbox 360 close to Nintendo's consistently high territory. Port Washington (NY) - The late...
Thursday, May 15, 2008 21:43
Foster City (CA) - The latest firmware update is coming to a PS3 near you, bringing with it a couple of minor stability fixes and patches that relate to playback of some PS3 game s. In a post on the
Thursday, May 15, 2008 10:44
...ar, 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 out U.S. sales. Updated April game console sales...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 17:43
... the operating loss decreased significantly primarily due to a decrease in the operating losses of the PS3 business as a result of successful PS3 hardware cost reductions and increased sales of PS3 so...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 13:35
...oon after Rockstar Game s released Grand Theft Auto IV on the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360, owners of the PS3 version began complaining about problems with its lower HD resolution and complications with ...
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
...nt Kaz Hirai says that the company has "only really begun to scratch the surface" when it comes to the PS3 , and is confident that it will overtake the Wii and Xbox 360 in sales. Hirai made the commen...
Thursday, May 08, 2008 13:29
...eased until he is satisfied with it. The ambitious online project, which Sony hopes will energize the PS3 and create a new wave of excitement, has been pushed back multiple times since it was reveale...
Wednesday, May 07, 2008 12:13
...yed game on Microsoft's online gaming service. The Xbox 360 version of GTA IV has been outselling the PS3 one, though not by an overwhelming margin. According to a post on his official blog, Xb...
Tuesday, May 06, 2008 14:44
...tracks for the two consoles. It will put out a compilation of the songs already released for the PS3 and Xbox 360 on special expansion discs. Rock Band has become the hallmark example of a game ...
Tuesday, May 06, 2008 13:44
Formula 1 isn’t exactly as popular as Nascar or Indy cars, but there is
no denying that it is the premier motorsport event around the globe and
it looks like Sony won’t be publishing any more
Tuesday, May 06, 2008 10:20
With the much-publicized problems of the Playstation 3 version of Grand Theft Auto leaving PS3 owners upset, the game 's publisher has released details on how to fix the glitches, and it's not an eas
Friday, May 02, 2008 16:04
The last couple years aside, most Americans would probably only remember a Canadian dollar that was less valuable than the American dollar, sometimes even comically so. Recently, though, the t
Thursday, May 01, 2008 19:57
... every major retailer have policies that prevent them from selling AO game s, and Sony will not approve PS3 game s with the restrictive rating. Barring intervention from the ESRB, though, MADD has also...
Thursday, May 01, 2008 10:51
...r its development company Rockstar. The new installment, which is the first for the Xbox 360 and PS3 , was expected to be even more successful than previous titles. New York (NY) - In its first d...
Thursday, May 01, 2008 09:41
...out of the gate. As game rs around the country begin their new virtual life of crime and thuggery, the PS3 version of GTA IV has shown some problems not present with the Xbox 360. As with every onlin...
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 14:22
...ment suit, which Sony settled for a hefty sum and enabled the company to bring the feature back to the PS3 . Now I am sitting here with my $58.70 ($54.99 plus sales tax) controller and I am wondering ...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 13:44
...n remains on the table, though. Grand Theft Auto IV will be released on April 29 for the Xbox 360 and PS3 . Many stores including Game stop and Best Buy will be holding special midnight openings ...
Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:28
..., joint creators MTV Game s and Harmonix announced that six million tracks had been downloaded over the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Rock Band. Because of the success of downloadable content, Harmon...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 14:05
...a year ago. However, it remains on a restricted access level. "We understand that we are asking PS3 and prospective PS3 users to wait a bit longer," said Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Kaz Hir...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:10
...e from others you’ve seen or used." Sony has been teasing the idea of an online video service for the PS3 for a while. At last year's Electronic Entertainment Expo the company told us that it w...
Monday, April 21, 2008 11:04
...million copies. Monthly sales numbers since November 2006 It's no surprise that the Wii outsold the PS3 and Xbox 360, but for the first time in months it also outsold the Nintendo DS. Last mo...
Friday, April 18, 2008 10:20
Quick Take - The PS3 never should have been released without a new
version of the Gran Turismo car driving simulator and if you had any
doubts that this title is the single most important game for
Thursday, April 17, 2008 15:16