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  • North American PSN update; September 10, 2009

    Sony Computer Entertainment of America released its weekly update to the PlayStation Store. There’s plenty to keep you busy this week, including PSone classics Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain and Syphon Filter 2. We also recommend checking out the demo of Half Minute Hero for the PSP. For a ful...

  • PS3 sales up 300%; Sony to release 25 exclusives for the holidays

    Sony Computer Entertainment of America has released some impressive statistics regarding new PlayStation 3 sales for the first week of September. Sony’s top retailers have reported a 300% lift in PS3 hardware sales and an increase of 140% in total hardware revenue, since the launch of the Slim...

  • Sony planning to launch 250GB PS3 Slim bundles?

    Eurogamer has caught word that Sony is planning on unleashing three 250GB PlayStation 3 Slim bundles in the UK this year, which will apparently arrive on store shelves as early as October. Citing a ‘trusted retail source’ (who wises to remain anonymous), the site claims that the bundl...

  • PS3 Slim sales are beyond expectations, says Sony UK

    Sony has admitted that first week sales of the PlayStation 3 Slim in UK territories have vastly surpassed the company’s expectations. Data from Chart-Track revealed that the launch of the revamped machine caused PS3 sales to skyrocket over 1000 percent. However, Mark Howsen, sales director ...

  • Japan: PS3 Slim sells over 150k in three days

    Famitsu publisher Enterbrain has revealed that the PlayStation 3 Slim has shifted over 150,000 units in Japan during its first three days on the market. The revamped console sold approximately 150,252 units (though additional sales of the regular model bumped the figured to 150,832) during the pe...

  • UK PS3 sales up 999%, outsells Xbox 360 by 3:1

    Sales of the PlayStation 3 have increased by over a whopping 999 percent in the UK following the release of the Slim edition of Sony’s flagship console, reports Gamesindustry.biz "The uplift on week 36 on week 35 is plus 999 per cent," said Chart Track’s Dorian Bloch. &ldquo...

  • Sony to market PS3 as a 'total entertainment solution'

    Sony has revealed that the platform holder intends to reposition the PlayStation 3 as an all-in-one entertainment device via a brand new marketing onslaught ahead of the launch of PS3 Slim. “We have been a game company for years and we would never walk away from that, but research confirmed...

  • Best Buy offering games instead of PS3 Slim exchange?

    The new PlayStation 3 Slim is probably attractive to both current PS3 owners, and those interested in stepping up to Sony’s console. But what will big retailers do with large amounts of ‘old’ PS3 returns in exchange for the new, slimmer, larger-hard-drive PS3 Slim? According to ...

  • Hirai says Sony will lose money on every PS3 Slim sold

    Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) head honcho Kazuo Hirai has revealed that the hardware manufacturer will make a loss on every PlayStation 3 Slim unit it shifts at retail. Asked whether or not the company would make a loss on the machine as with the original model, Hirai told The Times Onl...

  • New Japanese PS3 Slim commercials are... different?

    The folks over at Joystiq got their hands on Sony’s new “Playface” ads for the PlayStation 3 Slim. These Japanese TV commercials are certainly worth watching, but they are more than a little different. It’ll be interesting to see the Western commercials for the PS3 Slim. O...

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