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The excitement surrounding the next generation of consoles has led to a record-breaking performance on Amazon.com. The US retailer has announced a record week for its Video Games store that saw a 4,000 per cent year-on-year increase in console orders throughout E3. Not a shock, maybe, as the hardware market …
Read More »Sony doesn’t want to harm ‘fragile retail’
PlayStation has vowed not to risk damaging the ‘fragile’ UK retail market with new business models. The firm responded to Xbox One’s sales restrictions, which could have impact trade-ins. But Microsoft has since changed its mind on its new policies following a consumer backlash. PS4’s business model remains the same …
Read More »Retailer lists PS4 for November 13th launch
A European retailer may have let slip the release date for Sony’s next-generation console. The poster below, spotted by a NeoGAF member in the Amsterdam branch of games specialist Media Markt, suggests that PlayStation 4 would be on sale from November 13th. Sony already promised that the device would be …
Read More »UPDATED: PS4 game RRP still not confirmed in Europe
UPDATE:Sony has contacted MCV to say that it has "not made any announcements about PS4 software pricing for the UK or Europe and will do at a later date". ORIGINAL STORY: PS4 games will be priced the same as PS3 games, Sony has confirmed. We have announced the pricing for …
Read More »Sony: "We had one good day, but it’s not over yet"
An aggressive Sony took E3 by storm last week, but says it was only ‘one good day’. The company’s pre-E3 press conference was quite low on new games compared with Xbox. But its decision to not force online checks every 24 hours, or block trade-ins, was a real crowd-pleaser. And …
Read More »Sony: "If you buy it, you own it"
E3 may be over but Sony will do all it can to ride on the wave of goodwill that it generated in LA for as long as possible. Speaking to Yahoo, SCE chief exec Andrew House and made further statements about the company’s appreciation of the public backlash to Microsoft’s …
Read More »Bleszinski: Sony just playing on internet outrage
Gears of War creator says triple-A model unsustainable with used game sales
Read More »PS4-Vita Remote Play enabled at a system level
Every single PS4 game will be playable via Remote Play on PlayStation Vita. That’s because, unlike on PS3 when the functionality needed to be specifically coded in, PlayStation 4 will allow Vita streaming on a system level, Engadget reports. Sony Worldwide Studios head Shuhei Yoshida told the site: "On PlayStation …
Read More »Sony raises PS4 sales estimates, admits "demand may now outstrip supply"
The overwhelmingly positive response given to PS4 at E3 this week has led to the company raising its sales expectations for the machine. Global PlayStation boss Andrew House told The Wall Street Journal the company is shifting its internal projections for the product after favourable reactions to the company’s presentation …
Read More »Silicon Studio: Xbox One more ‘friendly’ to Japanese devs
Takehiko Terada also predicts middleware will become more specialised for next-gen platforms
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