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Reuters reports that the platform holder now expects to have sold 1.5 million fewer PS3s than its initial sales target up to March. But its handheld console has outstripped forecasts – Sony has raised its sales target for PSP for the current business year by three million to 13 million. …

A confident Sony chief executive Howard Stringer told Reuters on Friday: PS3 has now gone past Xbox on the Christmas market. It’s moving into its own as it gets into higher bandwidth … PS3 is out of the woods and beginning to hold its own.” His comments echo those of …

PlayStation 3 is set to overtake Xbox 360 in Europe by the summer of this year, despite launching well over a year after its rival. That was the bullish claim of SCEE president and CEO David Reeves this week, who revealed that PS3 has already outsold 360 in certain territories …

Having only been available in Japan so far, a number of newly announced filings on the US Federal Communications Commission’s website show that the white version of Sony’s PS3 is on the way to the US. And although there’s no word yet, it’s hopeful that the machine will also make …

Speaking to Bloomberg , Sony’s games president Kaz Hirai has revealed that the firm sold 1.2 million PS3 consoles in Europe in the last five weeks of 2007. He also refused to concede that Sony is unlikely to hit the 11 million sales target, that it had previously set itself, …

An analyst for investment bank Nikko Citigroup has stated that thanks to the redesigned 40GB PS3 Sony has whittled down the amount it costs to manufacture its console from $800 to around $400. Spong quotes Kota Ezawa as stating: "We applaud Sony’s efforts to shrink the PS3’s chips and tweak …

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has announced a new bundle offer for consumers that will see PlayStation 3 retail for 349.99 with two first-party titles. The deal, dubbed ‘Pick N Mix’ by the platform holder, will begin at retail next Friday, January 18th and will run ‘until further notice’. Games involved …

SCEJ has confirmed that the final shipment of the existing 20GB and 60GB PS3 is scheduled this month, after which the 40GB machine will be the only model in production. Along with both the increased efforts to improve software development environment and the availability of a more extensive line-up of …

Sony’s Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune has replaced Activision’s Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare at the top of ELSPA/ChartTrack’s official PS3 top ten. The action title debuted in second position last week, but has leapfrogged COD4 at the top – no doubt helped by some splendid specialist press reviews. Activision’s shooter …

The boss of Sony America, Jack Tretton, has claimed in an interview with IGN that developers are increasingly adopting PS3 as their lead platform and then ‘porting down’ the titles from Sony’s machine to rival platforms. "We are now starting to see developers creating games on PS3 and then porting …