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Sony Will Miss LCD TV Sales Target(0)

January 6, 2009

Sony may miss its target for LCD television sales on lower-than-expected revenue in North America and Europe, the company’s president said. The company’s 16 million units target for the 12 months ending March is “tough to reach,” President Ryoji Chubachi said in an interview with Bloomberg Television today.
“We characterize the environment for our year-end sales [...]

Sony Will Miss LCD TV Sales Target

Sony Getting Closer To Breaking Even On PS3

Sony Computer Entertainment has cut the cost of materials used to make its PlayStation 3 game console by 35 percent, according to market research firm iSuppli. The components used to produce the second-generation of the PS3 console cost US$448.73, based on October component prices, iSuppli said, citing a recent teardown of the system it conducted [...]

Voice Chat Returns To Playstation Home

Well, that didn’t take long - PlayStation Home update 1.05 was released yesterday. With this new update, users will be able to use the voice chat within their personal space and clubhouses to communicate and share with friends online. Users are no longer able to freely voice chat in public areas, however, most likely due [...]

LittleBigPlanet And Metal Gear Solid Together At Last

Just when you thought Sony was done with the Holiday surprises (Free Santa, Festive Level Pack, LBC1 winners, etc, etc) they have one more announcement up their sleeves. It caters to one of the most respected franchises in the history of video games - Metal Gear Solid. The new Metal Gear Solid packs, available 12/23 [...]

Playstation Home Goes Voiceless, But Adds Beards

Sony Computer Entertainment will conduct system maintenance for PlayStation Home on Thursday, December 18, 2008. At this time PlayStation Home will be updated from ver. 1.03 to 1.04. The system maintenance is scheduled to start at 12 midnight (PST), and the service is expected to resume in approximately 6 hours but may change depending on [...]

Sony Is Finally Making Smart Commercials For PS3

When the Playstation 3 Video Delivery Service launched on July 15th, Sony broadened our content offering to include TV shows and movies to make the PS3 the total entertainment package. With nearly 1000 full-length movies and 2700 TV episodes for download onto the PS3 or PSP, the Video Delivery Service brings you digital entertainment right [...]

SingStar For PS3 Now Has Backwards Compatibility

It’s the first anniversary of SingStar for PLAYSTATION 3 and Sony has a special celebration gift for loyal PlayStation 2 SingStars: the ability to play your collection of PS2 discs through SingStar PS3! Released today, the free online update to SingStar PS3 allows PS2 SingStars to upgrade to PS3 and take their whole collection of [...]

Penny Arcade Does Home

The popular webcomic Penny Arcade recently added their perspective on the new Home service for the Playstation 3. Click on the image above for the larger version.

Compared To Last Year, November PS3 Sales Way Down

According to the NPD group (Silicon Alley Insider via CNNMoney.com), “sales of the PS3 are down about 19% from November 2007. Sony was only able to sell 378,000 PS3s this November, compared to 466,000 last year.” I’m very aware of the fact that we are living in one of the rockiest financial times in many [...]

HOME Sweet HOME

Guys, after a long wait, really long I’d say, you may finally experience the online community called HOME on your PS3. December 11th is the magic date and supposedly all you have to do is reboot your PS3 to see a HOME icon appear (looks like the Home app was already built in the firmware [...]

Meet Alex Evans, Creator of LittleBigPlanet

Alex Evans, co-founder of Media Molecule, is one of the key developers behind the juggernaut smash hit game LittleBigPlanet for the PS3. The game has revolutionized the video game industry and has inspired gamers around the world to play, create, and share. It’s so good that my girlfriend is addicted, and we play it together [...]

Why Doesn’t The Playstation 3 Have Netflix?

I mean, really - the XBOX360 has Netflix, BD players are getting Netflix, and even Blockbuster is courting hardware manufacturers. Is Sony so stubborn with its video store that it can’t have multiple options? Don’t get me wrong - I think that Playstation Video Store interface is absolutely stunning. However, I just don’t get why [...]

PS3 Wireless Keypad and AC Adapter Update

The Wireless Keypad for the PS3 will be available in stores starting the first week of December. Fans excited about PlayStation Home should definitely consider picking one of these up. The Wireless Keypad enables lightning quick chatting with other PlayStation Home community members. Plus, the unique touch pad mode allows for intuitive Internet browsing on [...]

Incoming: New 80GB PS3 Holiday Bundle

According to Kotaku, store shelves in Best Buy (and perhaps elsewhere) will soon see a new 80GB Playstation 3 bundle. What differentiates this from the rest is the inclusion of the epic Casino Royale on Blu-ray, and the Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction video game. It’ll go on sale later this week, on [...]

Sony Shows Off Gran Turismo 5 At 240FPS On A FED Display

In another post, we spoke about a October gala in NYC that had Gran Turismo 5 running at four times 1080 HD through a Sony SXHD projector. However, another item of interest was a playable demonstration on a Nano-Spindt FED / Field Emissions Display developed by Sony, with a frame rate of 240fps (240 frames [...]

Gran Turismo In 4 Times The Resolution Of Full HD

In October in New York, New York, Polyphony Digital held a anniversary event commemorating the 10th year since the release of the “Gran Turismo” Series. The stage for this event dubbed the “DOWNSHIFT SESSION 2008” was at the “Classic Car Club Manhattan”, an automotive membership club in the SOHO district of lower Manhattan. Polyphony Digital [...]

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