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PS3 has lost Sony Corp. $3.3 billion since its launch in 2006, according to the company’s annual filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. According to Forbes, "strategic pricing" has left Sony selling the console at a loss. "Even if the platform is ultimately successful, it may take longer than …

Sony Corp. chairman Howard Stringer has said the company’s top management priority is to restore profitability in our television and game businesses.” Stringer made the comment at Sony’s annual shareholder meeting in Tokyo yesterday. Last month, Sony predicted its games division is set to its first annual profit in three …

Third party developers and publishers will be launching new non-game applications for the PSP and PS3 in the near future. That’s according to SCEE president David Reeves, who was addressing the attendees at DevStation last week. He reminded the audience that third parties are welcome to add their own services …

Leading Japanese games bible Famitsu is reporting that Square Enix is to delay the release of one of its upcoming threesome of Final Fantasy XIII titles, according to reports . Developers who had to date been working on Final Fantasy Versus XIII have been shifted to the team handling PS3 …

SCE starts to fill the public in on Trophies and the like after recent disclosure of details to developers

Sony has now officially confirmed that its latest PS3 firmware update, versions 2.40, will indeed include both access to the in-game XMB and Sony’s take on Xbox 360 Achievements – known as Trophies. The XMB (or cross-media-bar) is essentially the PS3’s user menu. Currently, users are forced to quit out …

VP of product marketing at SCEA Scott Steinberg has stated that the release of Konami’s MGS4 is just the beginning of a software avalanche” for PS3. Writing on the official PlayStation blog, Steinberg wrote: ‘Thanks to PS3’s Blu-Ray technology, this is the biggest Metal Gear Solid yet and sets a …

Sony’s PS3 outsold Microsoft’ Xbox 360 in the US during May, shifting 208,700 units compared to its rival’s 186, 600. However, Nintendo was the true citor of the month. Wii sold 675,100 units, whilst DS shifted 452,600. Sony’s PSP generated 182,300 unit sales in the month.

GTA IV sold almost double the number of units on Xbox 360 as it did on PS3 in the US in May. According to data from sales monitor NPD, the Rockstar title shifted 871,300 copies on Microsoft’s system, whilst selling 442,900 on Sony’s console. Nintendo’s Mario Kart and Wii Fit …

Sega has unveiled its full release schedule for the rest of 2008 to MCV – and dated two new Sonic games. The highly-anticipated Sonic Unleashed for 360, PS3, Wii and PS2 is set for release in November, whereas the Bioware-developed Sonic Chronicles is on course for September. The publisher has …