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The once monthly vidcast, dubbed Qore (pronounced "core"), will be available for download from the PlayStation Store on Thursday, June 5 and presented in high definition. Single shows can be purchased for $2.99. A yearly subscription is also available for $24.99.
"The premier episode includes in-depth exclusive and never-before released content on upcoming PlayStation titles such as SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Secret Agent Clank, Soul Calibur 4 and Afro Samurai," reports the PlayStation blog, "as...
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After bleeding red for months, Sony's games division finally turned a profit last quarter. Sony sold 4.9 million PS3s last quarter after slashing console prices, boosting game titles, and cutting production costs internally. Of course, we're sure Wii shortages aren't hurting Sony's bottom line either. Sony did lower its annual sales goal of PS3s from 11 million to 9.5 million (citing a slow start) while increasing PSP projections to 13 million from 10 million as originally expected. Sony's fiscal year ends in March. Overall, Sony's profits...
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Korea Telecom will next month connect its IPTV service that will feed shows to Sony's PlayStation 3 games console.
Mega TV launched in June - the same month the PS3 officially went on sale in Korea - this year as a HD-capable revamp of KT's earlier, standard-definition only Megapass internet TV offering. Last month, KT rolled the service out to all of its broadband customers - 5.5m of them - having previously offered the service only to those in Seoul.
Not all of these subscribers also pay for Mega TV - last month, KT said it hopes to...
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Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has just announced a new 40GB PS3 which will launch in Europe for the price of €399. It will be available starting October 10th. As predicted, the new model features two USB 2.0 ports rather than four and no longer includes the multi memory card port, the model also loses backwards compatibility support for PS2 games.
Patrick Seybold from Sony Computer Entertainment America has no real comment about the 40GB model being made available in the US. "We have not made any announcements for new SKUs or...
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Nintendo's market value in Japan has passed Sony's for the first time. After a 1.9% rise for Nintendo on Monday and 0.9% drop for Sony, the maker of the Wii has a market cap 6.56 trillion yen ($53 billion). Sony is now valued at 6.51 trillion yen ($52.5 billion).
What's particularly amazing is that while Nintendo is involved almost exclusively in video games, Sony has five business segments, and is involved in pretty much every area of consumer electronics. The market is placing a much, much higher value on Nintendo's game business than it...
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In somewhat of a shocker, God of War creator David Jaffe has admitted that if he could change something about PS3, he would have removed its Blu-ray player and sold the console at a cheaper price. Jaffe didn't outright label it a mistake either, but he's the first Sony employee to even question the need for Blu-ray.
The long wait is over. Sony's next generation console has finally launched in Europe.
At Virgin Megastore in Oxford Street in London, the rather subdued crowd were given a special treat.
Everyone who bought a PlayStation 3 worth £425 were also given a 46-inch BRAVIA HD television worth over £2,500 and a taxi home.
In total, the giveaway amounted to £250,000 worth of televisons to more than 100 gamers.
You can play games and download in the background, you just can't play online. So playing offline in a single player mode is doable, but once you hop into multiplayer or something that uses the network the download pauses. When the online portion ends, the download resumes without any lost data. Hazzah!
Sony has announced plans to launch its ambitious PlayStation Home online service - announced at GDC last week - this October.
The initial download is expected to weigh in at "under 500MB", with subsequent patches "hopefully" integreated via a streaming solution "that makes them negligible".
A closed beta phase for around 15,000 users will take place between April and August, with an open beta for around 50,000 operating between August and October.
Sony's plans to shave a few bucks off the production costs of the PS3 are going to get bigger, if a report by Japanese-language newspaper Nikkei is to be believed.
The report says that the European PS3 will be the first (not the only) PS3 to have the Emotion Engine tweaked—a decision we reported on a few weeks ago. As it turns out, Sony has removed the Emotion Engine, leaving that to be emulated by software on the powerful PS3.
Sony also announced its intentions to move to a 65nm fab process for the Cell processor, which will also...
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