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News Playstation 3 Sells Over 4 Million In Japan
News of a minor milestone for Sony's Playstation 3 in Japan today, as figures compiled by Famitsu's publisher, Enterbrain, suggest the system has passed the 4million units mark, hitting a life-to-date total 4,020,563
They are great numbers for Sony, but it's humbling to see theWii reach the 9million mark on the same day. Let's see what difference...
News Nintendo DS Takes Playstation 2's Crown, Becomes Britain's Biggest Selling System Ever
The Nintendo DS is now the biggest-selling UK video games system of all time
According to reports, the DS just passed the Playstation 2's 10.02million sales mark, earning the crown in just over 4 years. That's a crazy impressive feat. Kudos to Nintendo.
News Snore: Modern Warfare 2 Still Top Of The UK Charts
Haven't you bought it yet already? Well, we suppose there's not much else coming out
That's right folks: Modern Warfare 2 is still top of the UK sales charts. Hurrah, whoopee and all that. Fifa 10's second, Assassin's Creed II's third. Not much else to say. Knock yourselves out. CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 2 FIFA 10 ASSASSIN'S CREED II NEW SUPER...
News Playstation 3 & Wii Battle It Out In Japan Hardware Sales
The Wii had a narrow victory on the Playstation 3 in Japan last week, selling just 115 consoles more
The PS3 was still showing its new found lease of life however, with a decent 46,558 consoles sold. The PSP was in good stead also, with 38,839 units sold. Sadly, the PSPgo dawdled at the bottom of the charts with less than 4,000 units this week,...
News Traveler's Tales: PSPgo Will Die If Content Does Not Become Cheaper
According to Traveler's Tales founder John Burton, Sony's new PSPgo could die if the content does not get cheaper
"I own a PSP Go but don't want to buy LittleBigPlanet, for instance, as I can get it 20-percent cheaper on UMD from Amazon and could resell it once I'm finished with it," Burton explained. "But if I download it, I get no...
News EA Set To Cut Title Roster By 20% Next Year
EA release a lot of games
A lot of games. But with recent disruptions in the work-place, their output is set to change. EA's boss, John Riccitiello told Reuters that "quality" is increasingly the focus for EA, announcing plans to release just 40 games next year compared to the 60 in 2008. Furthermore, Riccitiello also predicted t
News Playstation Sales Hit The Roof Over Thanksgiving Weekend
SCEA comms boss Patrick Seybold has confirmed through-the-roof sales for the Playstation 3 in America over thanksgiving weekend
The Playstation 3 mustered a whopping 440,000 sales for the week ending November 29th.The 2009 holiday season got off to an amazing start for PlayStation, with all key retailers showing a significant increase for PS3, PSP...
News Go To HMV Right Now If You Want A PSPgo At An Outrageous Price
If you have no real attachment to your old UMDs, are a new PSP buyer, or have made the switch to downloading your PSPs games - we think you should absolutely get a PSPgo
We know people like to moan and moan about the system, but we love ours. It's super small, has tons of space on board and is a lot more comfortable than current PSP models. In fact,...
Can you Adam 'nd Eve it - Infinity Ward's Modern Warfare 2 is still top of the UK sales charts
Blimey! Try to contain yourselves, won't you. In other Modern Warfare 2 sales news, ELSPA have offered the game their prestigious Diamond award for whopping sales throughout the UK region. As you should well be aware reader, Modern Warfare 2 has sold lots...
News House: The Wii Is Experiencing Significant Downturn
The Playstation brand is kicking again
We've seen rather steady dominance for the Sony platforms over the past 3 or 4 months in the Playstation's homeland, and even a hint of celebration in the US; the Sony swagger is back. And that means Andrew House, Sony Europes head-honcho, can start talking about the competition again."I think at a time...
News Analyst: Wii Bubble "Deflating," PS3 Poised To Dominate The Holidays
In an interview with Gamasutra, Cowen Group analyst Doug Creutz has placed his money firmly on Playstation 3 dominance this holiday season
According to Creutz, the "Wii bubble could be deflating," with the system's core audience holding off on video game purchases compared to last year.While we believe the Wii is likely to be a drag on...
News Ubisoft: Assassin's Creed II Sold 1.6million In Its First Week
Kudos to the folks at Ubisoft
First of all for making Assassin's Creed II strides ahead of its predecessor. But secondly, for not flippin' delaying a big multiplatform title because of Modern bleedin' Warfare 2. The game's out in stores now, and by all accounts is selling pretty darn well. In fact, according to Ubisoft the game has sold 1.6million...
News Surprise: Modern Warfare 2 Holds Onto UK Charts Top Spot, Beats Out Assassin's Creed II
Well, this is about as much a shock as Katie Price being voted for a Bushtucker Trial: Modern Warfare 2 has continued its grip on the British sales charts
And that's with Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed II managing to outperform its predecessor by 12 percent. Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. Wii was the other big debut this week, with very little interest...
News Playstation Network To Rake In $500million For Sony This Year, Up 300% Over Last Year
The good news continues to roll for Sony as they've announced revenue for the Playstation Network to be up 300% over last year
In fact, the company expect to see $500million of revenue from the service this financial year. Sony can expect the launch of the European video store and the PSPgo to boost sales on the Network even further.
News Ratchet & Clank: A Crack In Time Becomes The Fastest Selling Game In The Franchise
Congrats!
It may have failed to set the charts alight, but that's not stopped Ratchet & Clank: A Crack In Time from becoming the fastest selling game in the franchise. In their latest Full Moon podcast, the Insomniac team herald the game as the fastest selling title in the franchise, impressive seeing as Ratchet games in general have seen over...
News Hirai "Confident" Sony Will Shift 13million PS3s This Year
Sony Computer Entertainment boss-man Kaz Hirai is "confident" Sony will shift 13 million Playstation 3's by the end of the fiscal year in March, 201o
Global reported sales for the first two quarters of this year stand at 4.3 million, but sales have been through the roof since then. Whilst 13 million seems like a far-away estimate, we must all...
A little earlier today, a slide on a Sony business presentation seemed to suggest that the company planned to start charging subscriptions for the Playstation Network
Kaz Hirai (via VG247) quashed these reports, ensuring that the PSN is to remain free to use, with subscriptions for "premium content" to be introduced.SCE will further...
News Playstation 3 Sales Up 70% In The USA, PSN Downloads Up 60%
When we look back on the Playstation 3 in years to come, we may just consider the announcement of the PS3 Slim a turning-point for the system
Sony have announced that the PS3's October performance in the US is up 70% on 2008. That's not all though, as PSN downloads have also increased by 60%, with October seeing more revenue from the service than...
News Modern Warfare 2 Makes Activision Lots & Lots Of Money
It doesn't matter that DJ Hero was a flop because Activision are now wiping their bottom with cash
Why? Mainly because Modern Warfare 2 managed to earn the company a whopping $550million in five days. Apparently it trumps a number of huge entertainment launches such as The Dark Knight and Harry Potter.
News Surprise: Modern Warfare 2 Debuts At The Top Of The UK Charts
Pretend to be surprised for us will you? Thanks
So, guess what? Modern Warfare 2entered the UK charts in the number one position for the week ending November 14th. It managed to sell a whopping 1.78 million copies over the five or so days it was on sale, with a speculated 700,000 or so copies attributed to the Playstation3 version. The rest of the...
News Playstation 3 Continues To Lead The Japanese Sales Charts
When the PS3 Slim launched, many expected the Playstation 3 to lead the charts for a couple of weeks and then drop away
But Sony's HD system has held onto its place at the top of the Japanese charts, even managing to beat out Nintendo's DSi this week. Combined sales of the PSP and PSPgo also managed to beat out Nintendo's handheld system for the...
News Bobby Kotick Scoops A Cool $20 Million In Modern Warfare 2 Launch Week
The video game executive that every gamer loves to hate - Activision's Bobby Kotick - has made a cool $20million after selling 2million shares in the firm this week
The outrageous profit comes after shrewd business from Bobby on the week of Modern Warfare 2's launch. Is it possible to hate this man any more?
News Sony: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Has Sold Over One Million
Sony of America's VP of Business Development Phil Rosenberg has announced that "as of last week, we've already sold over a million copies [of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves] in just a couple weeks on the market
" So they're not Modern Warfare 2 numbers (they should be?) but, let's be honest, that game is very much a freak case. With the October...
News October NPD: Uncharted 2: Among Theives Tops Charts, Playstation 3 Beats Out XBOX 360
Another NPD results post, another month, another fanboy war (we assume)
America's console and games sales charts are in. And they make for minor interesting reading. The Playstation 3's sales are down this month (after a mammoth month in September, that's to be expected) but Sony's high-definition system still managed to beat out Microsoft's XBOX...
News Modern Warfare 2 Sells 4.7 Million Copies On Day One
Activision have announced that Modern Warfare 2 managed to muster up sales in the 4
7million region in just North America and the UK alone. We're going to assume that's a lot of money and stuff. And now, we're not going to post anything else about Modern Warfare 2's sales until at least next week. Because we're bored of it. We get it. It sold lots.
News Modern Warfare 2 Shifts A Whopping 1.23 Million Units In The UK, Breaks Sales Records
As expected, Modern Warfare 2's launch was a major deal in the UK
The game sold a whopping 1.23 million units in its first 24 hours or so; absolutely crushing Grand Theft Auto IV's 631,000 units. The Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association described the launch as "interactive entertainment come of age." Apparently,...
News SURPRISE: Activision Planning More Call Of Duty & Guitar Hero For Next Year
Take that shocked look off your faces, people
We know it's extremely hard to believe but, yo, guess what - Activision are planning more Call Of Duty and Guitar Hero games for next year. The company that are never afraid to saturate the market stated in their Q3 financial report last week that we will see more Guitar Hero and Call Of Duty within the...
News Playstation Hardware Accounts For Over Half Of The Japanese Sales Charts This Week
It may have only been on store shelves for one day, put the PSPgo still managed to shift 29,109 units on its Japanese launch
Couple that with solid figures for the existing PSP (34,911) and continued strength of the Playstation 3 platform (36,061) and you have some real solid numbers for Sony in Japan this week. Nintendo's DSi continued to head the...
News Reggie Fils-Aime Not Phased By Playstation 3 Sales Performance
What a difference a few months can make
Way back in April we posted Nintendo exec Reggie Fils-Aime's statement that "there's nothing nice to say about Playstation 3". Now we're sitting here in November, and Fils-Aime is being asked questions on Nintendo's performance, as the Playstation 3 currently dominates worldwide. Asked in particular...
News Analyst: "The Wii Has Saved Sony"
So, Sony didn't make the Wii
They made the Playstation 3 instead. The Wii has been an absolute runaway success. So what in the world leads analysts DFC Intelligence to the conclusion that the Wii saved Sony. It's quite simple really - by keeping Microsoft's XBOX 360 in touch."The main danger Sony faced was that the Xbox 360 would become...
News Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Earns ELSPA Silver Sales Award
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is selling pretty well in the UK, with over 100,000 copies sold thus far
That's enough for the game to earn a Silver Award from ELSPA. The previous game sold between 200,000-300,000, earning the ELSPA Gold Award, an accolade Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is now well on track to earn.
News DJ Hero Sales "Modest" Claims Analyst, States The Bleeding Obvious
Analysts like to talk about sales a lot
Heck, it's their job. A job that pays Colin Sebastian of Lazard Capital Markets to tell Gamasutra that DJ Hero's sales are "modest". Given the UK figures, we wouldn't be surprised to hear that. Top marks Colin — your profession continues to state the bloomin' obvious. Sebastian goes on to claim...
News America: 250GB Playstation 3 Slim In Stores Now
If you're American and still without a Playstation 3, well it's worth noting that Sony released the 250GB PS3 Slim in your region yesterday
The new PS3 Slim does all the normal stuff a PS3 does, but with a 130GB more hard-drive space to play around with. It's only $50 more than the standard system too — so you're getting over double the HDD space...
News GameStop: Playstation 3 Sales Remain "Very Strong" Post Price Cut
American retailers GameStop have announced that the Playstation 3 continues to sell extremely well post-price cut
According to executive vice president Tony Bartel, momentum for the system has remained strong since the price cut in early September. Usually price cuts cause a strong spike in sales, before dropping away. Sounds like the Playstation 3...
News Nintendo's Satoru Iwata: Wii & Playstation 3 Going Neck & Neck In Japan
Battle on
Chalk this down to a phenomenal turn-around in fortunes for SCE worldwide, or a drop in demand for Nintendo's wildly popular Wii system — Nintendo's president Satoru Iwata reckons that in their current climates the Wii and Playstation 3 are "neck and neck" in Japan. "A notable dip can be seen in sales of Wii this year; which is...
News PSPgo Shifts 28,275 Units On Its First Day Of Retail In Japan
The PSPgo has finally launched in Japan, and has managed to shift a respectable 28,275 units according to Andriasang
com</a>. The unit was supported by a ton of Playstation Network releases including Persona 3, Dissidia Final Fantasy and LocoRoco Midnight Carnival. Domestic lifetime sales for the PSP pre-Go stand at 12,797,180. It'll be a...
News DJ Hero Bombs In The UK Charts Despite Actually Being Kinda Rad
Confirmed: you need to have ZZ Top and other rock acts in your game to be successful
Also, you kinda need to be reasonably priced. That's right folks, the UK charts ain't looking too pretty for DJ Hero which debuted at number 20. Despite Freestyle Games doing a pretty stellar job (review forthcoming) on the electro-hip-hop-dance-pop arm of...
News Bayonetta Playstation 3 Conquers The XBOX 360 Version Despite Claims Of "Inferiority"
The Playstation 3 version of Bayonetta has conquered the XBOX 360 version despite numerous claims the Sony version is not up to scratch
Japanese publication Famitsu scored the XBOX 360 version of Bayonetta a whole 2 points more (earning it a perfect score) due to performance issues which are somewhat questionable. That hasn't stopped the Playstation...
News Playstation 3 Holds Strong Around The 30K Mark In Japan
After the initial monster sales of the PS3 Slim in Japan, we always assumed weekly sales would settle down around the 30k mark - 20k higher than pre-Slim's average weekly figures
That's something that's happened for Sony, with figures of 29,997 this week. Many expected the Wii to overtake the PS3 after its pricedrop, but that hasn't happened, with...
News Namco Announces 2.5 Million Shipped Copies Of Tekken 6
Wow
2.5 million copies and ours is stuck in the postal strike! Thanks Royal Mail. Still, full points for effort Namco, who've shipped 2.5 million copies of Tekken 6 worldwide; even if the British ones aren't getting delivered. Of course, shipped copies don't necessarily relate to sold copies, but given this is a Tekken game, we expect the numbers...
News Playstation 3 Sales Jump, PSP & PS2 Down
The divisions devoted to Sony's Playstation and VAIO businesses are reporting a 24
2 percent decrease in sales over the period ending September 2009 when compared to last year's figures. "This decrease," states Sony, "was mainly due to lower VAIO PC and game sales." Sony also claimed that lower PS2 sales alongside the...
Pro Evolution Soccer has been a big brand on the Playstation for years
First week sales of the new Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 confirm that brand loyalty is far from dead. The Playstation 3 SKU of the game managed to contribute to 66% of the game's total sales - a minor victory for Sony where the XBOX 360 usually enjoys the greater share of...
News Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 Tops The UK Charts, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Remains In Top 10
Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 has edged out all competition to take the top spot on the UK all-format charts
The Playstation 3 SKU of the game beat out all of its rivals to take the top spot on the UK charts, outselling the XBOX 360 version rather strongly. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves remained in the top ten at number six, with Borderlands debuting at...
News Oh Hey Look, It's A Bayonetta Advert
Don't you just love Japanese adverts? "Non-stop climax action - BAYONETTA
" We love that little Playstation 3 ident thing at the end aswell. Brilliant. It's going to be interesting how the spread of sales for Bayonetta actually turn out — with the XBOX 360 version scoring a 40/40, two marks more than the Playstation 3 version due to...
The Playstation 3 is starting to look steady with a reasonable 30,000 units a week figure in Japan
The system has been heavily boosted since its price drop around the world, and Sony will hope that things continue to stay that way until the expected super boost from the launch of Final Fantasy XIII in December. The Wii and PS3 continue to get...
News Need For Speed Franchise Sells 100,000,000 Games
100,000,000 games are a lot of games
In fact, if you stacked them all on top of each other, they'd reach the moon. We're actually not sure about that, but it sure as heck sounded good! Since 1994 (that's 15 years folks!) 15 games have been released in the Need For Speed franchise. They've launched in 22 languages in over 60 countries. Players have...
News Tretton: We're In The Midst Of One The Most Exciting Times For Playstation
With successful sales reports out of the way, Sony's Jack Tretton obviously felt bullish enough to write a rallying note to the users of the Playstation Blog, describing the coming holiday season as "one the most exciting times for Playstation"
Tretton described the new $299.99 pricetag of the Playstation 3 as a "game changer", and...
News NPD: Playstation 3 Dominates In The US, Conquers Wii & 360, Comes Close To DS
The September NPDs are out
Cue fanboy fights across the world. As expected, the PS3 Slim managed to dominate competition, selling nearly 150,000 more units than closest competitor the XBOX 360, while coming just 32,000 units short of the market leading Nintendo DS. Playstation 3 sales were up nearly double from the previous month, seeing a whopping...
Back of the net
Before the babies come and bombard the site with tales of how Playstation 3 software doesn't sell and the exclusives suck, let's have a moment of clarification: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, one of the best games of the year, has debuted at number two in the British sales charts — one spot behind Fifa 10, a game that was able to...
News Playstation 3 & Wii Locked In Home Console Sales Supremacy Bout In Japan
Since the PS3 Slim released the PS3 has seen a steady sales boost that's now starting to level out
The Wii also recently saw its price cut in recent weeks. The result is a heated contest for supremacy in which the Playstation 3 managed to win this week by just 155 units. We're sure things are only going to get closer next week. The sales figures for...
