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1. Nintendo Wii close to 50 million unit mark

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 11 March 2009

   ... to NPD, and the Xbox 360 14.2 million. The PS3, which integrates an Nvidia-designed chip has sold 7.0 million units in the U.S. so far. ...

2. Nintendo triples Wii sales in Q2

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 30 July 2008

   ... 1.7 million in Q2 2007 to 5.2 million in Q2 2008. Nintendo said that it has sold a cumulative 29.6 million Wiis, which compares to 19 million Xbox 360s and 14.4 million PS3s. Nintendo previously said that ...

3. Analysis: Apple’s big iPhone sales weekend

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Tuesday, 15 July 2008

   ... the PS3 launch?) of deliberately undersupplying the launch market. Let’s have a closer look.   Analysis – The iPhone 3G launch frenzy is over and if you were among those to leave Apple or ...

4. PS3 projected to push past Xbox 360 in March

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Thursday, 17 April 2008

   ... the Wii.  With the release of the blockbuster game Super Smash Bros Brawl, which will no doubt prove to be the top seller last month, Pachter says the Wii will have outsold the PS3 and Xbox 360 combined. ...

5. HD DVD’s rise and fall: A timeline

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 19 February 2008

   ... for PS3 Spong   Sept 1 Blu-ray Disc BD-ROM spec adds Microsoft's video codec EE Times     22 HD ...

6. Recap: Xbox 360 squeezed between the Wii and the PS3

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

   Saturday, 25 August 2007

   Opinion - It has been more than nine months since the Sony PS3 and Nintendo Wii were launched and we are seeing first trends how well the consoles are competing with Xbox 360, which has been on the market ...

7. Game consoles 2007: It's Nintendo's market to lose

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

   Tuesday, 14 August 2007

   ...   PS3:  Blu-Ray improving, but PS-3 still in trouble This is still amazing to me; Sony dominated the gaming segment to almost the same degree that Apple dominates MP3 players and hopes to ...

8. First look: Apple reinvents the cellphone

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Saturday, 30 June 2007

   ... would be enough supply and what type of user really would buy the phone. Yes, there was the Ebay crowd once again, but compared to the PS3 and Wii launch, where we found that eight out of ten buyers planned ...

9. No people lining up in front of AT&T stores

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Friday, 22 June 2007

   ... used to pay for game consoles. More than 5.5 million people around the world apparently had no problem shelling out that much dough for the PS3. It is a plain fact that many people in this country don’t ...

10. Production cost of PS3 could be cut by $100

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Brief)

    Monday, 07 May 2007

    As blue-laser pick-up heads (PUHs) for use in the PlayStation 3 (PS3) are expected to increase in supply and decrease in price, the production cost of the game console could be reduced by as much as $100, ...

11. IDC expects Nintendo Wii to become market leading game console

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 02 March 2007

    ... PS3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360.   Meanwhile, the Xbox 360 and PS3 are battling each other in the more traditional video game console segment. “Microsoft is relishing in the PS3's launch ...

12. Over 1000 PS2 games to work with Euro PS3

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 01 March 2007

    Sony has confirmed that more than 1000 of the 5000+ PS2 titles will be compatible with the PS3 when it's released in Europe this month. London (England) - Sony has confirmed that more than 1000 ...

13. Nintendo Wii claims title of best selling game console in January

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 21 February 2007

    ... units of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and 244,000 units of Sony’s Playstation 3. In December, when sales numbers were limited by Wii and PS3 supply shortages, Microsoft sold about 1.1 million consoles, ...

14. Xbox 360 outsells Wii, PS3

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 02 January 2007

    ... detail ... The Wii was the defined winner over the PS3 in terms of units sold. NPD, a market analyst group, estimated that nearly 1.8 million Wii consoles were sold since its launch on November 19, outpacing ...

15. Opinion: To buy or not to buy a PS3

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Friday, 22 December 2006

    ... The PS3 in detail ... Waiting for the PS3: Tent cities forming in front of stores ... Well, here is a situation few of us had expected: The Playstation 3 is actually in reach, without a need to shell out ...

16. Playstation 3 supply catches up with demand, firm says

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 21 December 2006

    ... retail price. What it is all about: The PS3 in detail ... Notifywire.com, a website that provides in-stock alerts for certain products, reports that Sony's latest game console has been much more available ...

17. Nintendo adds three classics to Virtual Console

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 18 December 2006

    ... the XBL Arcade began offering new games every Wednesday several months ago. Sony has yet to spark significant interest in its PS3 downloadable game service, dubbed the e-Distribution Initiative (EDI), ...

18. Wii straps under investigation

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 07 December 2006

    ... also flew off store shelves, pushing the total unit sales to around one million. The PS3, Nintendo's main competitor, had a rocky start because of production problems it announced several weeks before ...

19. Top 10 reasons why to buy a Playstation 3 on Ebay

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 21 November 2006

    When we last checked, there about 13,000 PS3s on sale on Ebay. With that many consoles for sale, one could have guessed, a balance of supply and demand may not be that far away - and sellers are getting ...

20. Comparing Wii, PS3, and Xbox 360 execution: Focus makes the difference

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Tuesday, 21 November 2006

    ... 3 The PS3 in detail ... I've been playing this for much of the last weekend and it's a solid game machine, powerful graphics, beautiful industrial design, and a good set of secondary features that are, ...

21. Nintendo estimated to have sold more than 600,000 Wii consoles at launch

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 20 November 2006

    ... Wii available than Sony of its PS3, the bright white device still sold out within minutes. More than 1000 people were waiting in line at the main launch store, the Times Square location of Toys R Us. The ...

22. Opinion: Payday - The $15,100 PlayStation 3

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Friday, 17 November 2006

    ... of students and savvy businessmen who lined up - or paid others to line up - weeks before the PS3 went on sale in the US, today is payday. At the time of writing there are around 8200 PS3s on sale on Ebay ...

23. Playstation 3 distribution gets violent

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 17 November 2006

    Low supply, high demand and even higher prices on eBay... If you couldn't see a bit of a PlayStation 3 related crime wave coming then you might want to save your $600 and get some laser eye treatment ...

24. Sony launches Playstation 3 in the U.S.

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 17 November 2006

    ... Walmart and Target will be handing them out in the morning. Ebay sales are picking up steam, with sellers asking for as much as $7000. What it is all about: The PS3 in detail ... Waiting for the PS3: Tent ...

25. PS3 hardware and manufacturing cost estimated at $840

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 16 November 2006

    Market research firm iSuppli has taken apart two of the first available PS3s and found that - not surprisingly - Sony may spend far more on manufacturing the game consoles than the retail price may suggest. ...

26. Taiwan gets 500 PS3 consoles for launch, U.S. PS3 allocation reduced again?

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 15 November 2006

    ... according to Sony's Taiwan branch. See the Sony Playstation 3 in detail ... Gamers in Taiwan, however, will have an opportunity to buy a PS3 through unofficial channels, which reportedly have been importing ...

27. Lines begin to form at retail locations for PS3

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 09 November 2006

    Video game blog Kotaku has posted an image of the outside of a Best Buy store in Burbank, CA, with three people reportedly already in line outside for the November 17 launch of the PS3, still eight days ...

28. A dull holiday season for consumer electronics?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 26 October 2006

    ... to stream content from their computer to a TV. The device was planned for a holiday release but had to be pushed back to January 2007. Then, one of the most anticipated products of all, the PS3, while ...

29. Nintendo sells 10 million DS Handhelds in six months

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 26 October 2006

    ... become the big winner of the third generation game console launch frenzy in November. While Sony has limited its initial PS3 supply to 500,000 units, Nintendo is confident that it can sell six million ...

30. iTV vs. Microsoft Media Center vs. PS3: The Big Battle of 2007

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Wednesday, 25 October 2006

    iTV vs. Microsoft Media Center vs. PS3: The Big Battle of 2007. More ... Last week I suggested Sony was getting better and almost as if Sony wanted to prove me wrong they released their financials which ...

31. Lik-Sang sued out of existence by Sony

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 24 October 2006

    ... not - in PS3's case - backwards compatible with either PS1 or PS2 software; will not play European Blu-ray movies or DVDs; and will not be covered by warranty," they said. In its press release, Lik-Sang ...

32. Wii pre-orders sell out in day one

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 16 October 2006

    ... that it officially stopped taking pre-orders for the Wii by the end of Friday, 13 October, the day pre-orders first became available. Click here for pictures of the Nintendo Wii console... Unlike the PS3, ...

33. September video game sales show growth

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 13 October 2006

    ... $143 million. Despite the drought of new hardware, as a precursor to the Wii and PS3 releases), hardware sales had more momentum last month, headlined by the Nintendo's portable DS Lite console, which ...

34. Want a PS3? That would be $2500.

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 10 October 2006

    ... of speculators to pre-order Sony's upcoming Playstation 3 (PS3) today. In fact, pre-order processes were wrapped up within minutes on many etailer sites: Gamestop/EB Games, for example, had sold its entire ...

35. High-capacitance MLCCs said to be in shortage due to Sony PS3

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 28 August 2006

      High-capacitance multi-layer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) are in short supply because of the Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) game console, according to sources with passive components makers. High-capacitance ...

36. Will Sony PlayStation 3 dry up supply of blue laser diodes for Blu-ray?

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 12 July 2006

    ... a large number of the diodes it's producing for use in its upcoming PlayStation 3 game console, due for release this November. After the huge initial order of PS3 components is met, Sony may not have enough ...

37. PC graphics quickly catching up with consoles, says Nvidia

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 15 May 2006

    ... DP: You have to look at it not so much short-term but long-term. With [PS3] being a fixed platform, you've got to look at it over a five-year lifespan. Over the life of the product, the price will come ...

38. The rising cost of business: Is Microsoft planning something big?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 27 April 2006

    ... PS3 leans toward the high-end customer, making slower inroads toward the mainstream. If increased PS3 demand translates into plummeting PS2 demand, the way Xbox 360 has impacted Xbox 1 - to the tune of ...

39. Ageia updates "PhysX" engine for Playstation 3

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 21 March 2006

    Ageia today announced version 2.4 of its PhysX software development kit (SDK), which includes performance updates for physics simulations on Sony's upcoming game console Playstation 3 (PS3). Ageia today ...

40. Pioneer: 4-7 million PS3s to ship in 2006

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Thursday, 19 January 2006

    ... year. Just yesterday, an analyst at Pacific Crest Securities gave a sunnier estimate, predicting 1 million PS3s would be available for a November launch. By contrast, Microsoft only moved around 326,000 ...

41. Sony/Toshiba/IBM Cell processor alliance extended to explore 32 nm processes

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 12 January 2006

    ... 32 nm lithography and lower, for process technologies that it did not necessarily associate with the Cell. With the 90 nm Cell due to power the PS3 for at least the next few years, more scientific applications ...

42. Elpida and Samsung deliver XDR memory for the PS3

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Brief)

    Wednesday, 18 May 2005

    ... 90 nm units. Elpida did not provide more details on the memory used for the PS3. Samsung said the 512 Mbit XDR is about 12 times faster than DDR400 memory and provides six times more speed than PC800 RDRAM. ...