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Global PS2 sales may have declined by over a million units in Sony’s last fiscal year , but the console was still the firm’s leading light in the 12 month period – selling over four million units more than successor PS3. Handheld PSP outsold the pair, clocking up 13.9 million …

Sony’s PlayStation division logged an operating loss of 124.5 billion Japanese Yen ($1.18bn), shrinking from the 232.3 billion ($2.2bn) loss reported a year earlier. The performance helped spur the Sony Corporation to an impressive results – with net income alomst tripling year-on-year to 369.4 billion Yen ($3.76bn). The firm’s PlayStation …

PlayStation 3 becomes first console to use video format, which promises high quality compression

After admitting to a packed PlayStation Day audience that PS3’s first year was difficult , Hirai later told MCV that part of the problem was a lack of understanding from Sony’s third party partners. I think there was some confusion as to what PS3 was initially – some of the …

Kaz Hirai told a throng of media at today’s PlayStation Day ’08 that the PS3’s launch was ‘difficult’ – but 2008 will be the year that PS3 kicks into top gear. "I think its fair to say that the first year of PS3 was a difficult one," the SCE president …

More copes of Rockstar’s GTA IV for were sold on Xbox 360 than PS3 in the game’s first week on UK shelves – but both companies enjoyed similar success when it came to the ‘system selling’ influence of the title. That’s according to official ChartTrack figures obtained by MCV, which …

Sony has unveiled up-to-date sales figures for its PlayStation ‘family’ in PAL territories – revealing that PS3 has hit the 5 million mark. In addition, the PSP has sold 12 million units in PAL regions – the bulk of which are made up of Europe and Australia, as well as …

Gamestop’s senior VP of merchandising has revealed that the release of GTA IV has inspired a ‘vigorous’ uptake in purchases of PS3 hardware. In a statement to the press reported by GameDaily, Bob McKenzie said: "From our position, the launch of GTA IV has been tremendous in driving traffic to …

MCV has learnt that Xbox 360 took the lion’s share of day-one sales of GTA IV – taking 55 per cent of the total 609,000 units that were sold in 24 hours. ChartTrack data shows 335,000 copies were sold on Microsoft’s machine – a new record for the console, beating …

A new Prince of Persia will be swinging onto next generation consoles this year, alongside a separate SKU scheduled for Nintendo DS. No name or details have been revealed, except for the fact it is being developed by the same Ubisoft Montreal team that worked on The Sands of Time …