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The damaging expense of launching the PS3 will not be repeated when the PS4 arrives later this year. Sony’s chief financial officer Masaru Kato told investors last night that the investment needed to design and produce PS4 was much lighter than the past platform”, according to CVG. Added Kato: When …
Read More »Sony PlayStation revenue falls by £180 million
But console giant expects sales to pick up significantly with the launch of the PS4
Read More »Ouya secures $15m in additional funding
A further $15m has been poured into Ouya, the Andoid console originally crowd-funded by Kickstarter. The company’s CEO Julie Uhrman said this additional investment was important to ensuring the long-term future of the device and would help increase production to meet demand. High retail demand was the reason given earlier …
Read More »Wii U to miss out on EA’s Star Wars games
It has been confirmed that the new Star Wars games coming from EA studios DICE and Visceral won’t be available on Wii U. That’s because both are being built using EA’s Frostbite 3 engine – tech that has not been ported to Nintendo’s machine. "Frostbite 3 has never been running …
Read More »The Death of TV Advertising
There was a time when you couldn’t flick on Coronation Street without seeing Ant and Dec prance about on a Wii Fit Balance Board. If a game was worth stocking, it had a TV ad. And there were hundreds of them, often found alongside big football matches orThe X Factor. …
Read More »‘Always-on’ never considered for PS4, Sony claims
Sony never believed that an always-on was a viable option for the PlayStation 4. Did we consider it? No, we didn’t consider it," said Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuei Yoshida in a chat withGame Informer Magazine, asreported by Gamespot. "The main reason being that many countries don’t have robust Internet …
Read More »Sony opening Indie section to PlayStation Store
New area to be 'constantly refreshed' with new releases and promoted games
Read More »Report: Next Xbox won’t require always-on connection
Leaked internal memo says users of next-gen console can play games offline
Read More »Game & Wario Europe retail release confirmed, arrives next month
Wii U micro-game collection Game & Wario has received an official European launch date. Nintendo of Europe took to Twitter to announce the title would launch in the territory on June 28th. It was revealed earlier this week Game & Wario, already out in Japan, would launch at retail in …
Read More »Molyneux: Next Xbox should focus on games first
Former Microsoft creative director says he doesn't need another way to view Facebook
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