Playstation Home was met with less than steller reviews, receiving pretty much negative feedback from the entire community. But that doesn’t stop Sony from pumping out new content.
Having recenty updated their blog to announce that the talked-about Redbull space is officially going live this week, complete with air races, palm trees, and energy drinks.
That’s not [...]

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Hideo Kojima listen up: Sony has declared war on your beloved franchise! The company has announced that it expects Killzone 2 to match if not surpass the sales of Metal Gear Solid 4 when it ships next month.
A Sony spokesperson had this to say: “It would be a lie to say Sony has not invested [...]

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Shifting from its earlier long-term focus, Sony has stated that it is now emphasizing a short-term focus on turning the PS3 into a money-making machine following a holiday season at the bottom of the charts and mounting losses throughout the company.
“The most important thing for us as a company in the very short term is [...]

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Making the biggest blunder of the year is Sony, who has confirmed that if you want to experience Killzone 2 before its February release, you will have to pay GameStop a $5 pre-order fee.
The games retailer is promising “exclusive access” to the demo before its February 27 release; the non-GameStop customers and eager gamers will [...]

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No, this isn’t an article about the PS3 being a superior paperweight/doorstop/other household item necessitating a weighty object. I’m not here to hate on Sony’s console, especially since I own one. The battle for console supremacy has gone beyond having the best games. Now the quality of your add-ons, extra features and business partnerships matters.
Both [...]

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UK’s Times Online are reporting that Sony might be in bigger trouble than originally assumed. According to the news outlet, the company is “on the brink of upheaval”, which could cause massive layoffs and management restructuring. Last month, Sony cut 16,000 permanent and temporary jobs worldwide, simultaneously expecting profits to be down 50% compared to [...]

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Electronics giant Sony claims that it has no plans to announce any new restructuring plans that would see the closure of any of its divisions. This comes in response to a recent report by The Times Online, which said Sony was “on [the] brink of upheaval” and that its employees were preparing for a “series [...]

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Isuppli, the market researchers known for taking apart hardware and gadgets and figuring out how much it costs to manufacture them, have calculated that it costs Sony 448 dollars to manufacture one PlayStation 3 console — which would then retail at 399 dollars.
It might seem like a big loss on each console sold, but [...]

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A new book, titled “The Race for a New Game Machine”, paints an interesting story about the development of the PS3 and Xbox 360 consoles, in particular, the processors powering each console.
The authors, David Shippy and Mickie Phipps claim that IBM — who manufactures CPUs for both consoles — used some of the [...]

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With the release date of Killzone 2 coming ever closer, word of a demo for the highly anticipated shooter has come out. However, if you want in on the action, you’ll need to pre-order the game, it seems.
Games retailer GameStop is offering “exclusive access” to the downloadable demo in exchange for a $5 pre-order, reports [...]

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The US market hasn’t been a good one for the PlayStation 3 at the end of this year. Sales in November declined 19% compared to the previous month. The competition did a lot better. Nintendo Wii sales have doubled while the Xbox 360 sales have gone up 8%. December will probably follow the same trend [...]

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We all know that getting a Wii or an Xbox is cheaper than purchasing a PS3. Why is that? Well Sony’s jewel costs $448.73 to produce and its most expensive setup is sold at $399. Which means Sony is hardly making any money off the gaming platform. And they weren’t making any money in the [...]

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The Playstation 3 is the most expensive console one could buy so far. We’ve told you Wii and Xbox are way cheaper and thus bringing in more sales. But what does Sony do instead of making it cheaper for a change? Well Sony dreams of 3D and it looks like the Playstation 3 will be [...]

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We might have mentioned the other day how there’s a PSP4000 in the works and that games for the PSP2 are being developed. That wasn’t confirmed news but since people are talking it must mean something right?
It looks like Sony was very fast in denying the existence of any plans for the PSP2. John Koller, [...]

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Sony has sent out a notice that some parts of their online service, the PlayStation Network will be down for maintenance. The notice says that it is regularly scheduled maintenance but there’s probably a little more to it. Of course the official notice apologizes for any inconvenience, but I’m guessing the recent exploits allowing users [...]

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The PSP hasn’t really been doing well for Sony, lacking big-selling games and complete disinterest of the consumer in UMDs has caused the platform a shameful defeat from the DS. Many had speculated that Sony had learnt from their mistakes and were working on a second-generation PSP, but that appears to be false, as SCEE [...]

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While the title hasn’t been lighting up the sales charts this holiday season Sony is confident that LittleBigPlanet will eventually snowball towards big success. John Kohler, a marketing manager for Sony Computer Entertainment America has said that the inventive platformer is seeing ‘explosive’ sales and it’ll rack up ‘big sales’ over time.
“LittleBigPlanet also opens [...]

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The economic crisis has now hit electronics giant Sony, who has been forced to cut roughly 8,000 of its 160,000 jobs by April 2010. Reuters added that 8,000 more jobs will be cut from “more temporary and contract staff.”
Unfortunately, Sony Computer Entertainment, the gaming division, will be part of the upcoming review.
“To stay competitive in [...]

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Give the public the opportunity to submit their own created content in some way, be it Youtube videos, Spore creatures or what have you and eventually someone’s going to make something that could be objectionable. LittleBigPlanet has suffered from the same problems. Before the game was even launched, countless webcomics were making jokes about the [...]

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Sony Computer Entertainment America hardware manager John Koller has revealed that illegal downloads of PSP games have slowed across the last two months. Speaking to MTV Multiplayer, Koller noted that piracy has been a “significant issue” for the platform since its inception, but that it has been “trending down right now”, adding that “we’ve seen [...]

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