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UK PS3 sales near 4m

Sony has sold almost four million units in the UK alone. The platform holder expects to hit this sales milestone within the next few weeks, having seen strong hardware sales throughout the past year. The PS3 passed the three million sales mark last January, meaning a healthy one million units …

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PS3 games drive Sony results

Nine months into Sony’s current financial year and the PS3 has already outstripped its total sales for the 2009 fiscal year, Sony has reported. Year-to-date sales of the machine now stand at 15m – 2m units ahead of the total 2009 sales figure. Q3 sales reached 6.3m units, which is …

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PS3 now on parity with Xbox 360 for EA

EA made as much money on PS3 software as it did on Xbox 360 for the first time in the quarter ending December 31st 2010. Net revenue for PS3 was up 19 per cent year-on-year to $282m. In contrast, Xbox 360 revenues fell 18 per cent to $285m, leaving both …

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OPINION: Sonys on-demand drive

The download-only era of games may be closer than ever, but today retail has one key advantage: the High Street is still the first stop for all new releases. While the PC has long since offered digital versions of the latest titles on day one, console gamers are still dependent …

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Move could get PC compatibility

Sony could be planning on bringing PC compatibility to its PlayStation Move motion controllers, if reports are to be believed. Kotaku reports that SCEA’s senior development support engineer John McCutchan will take to the stage at GDC later this month to unveil the ‘Move Server’. The description of his session …

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JAPAN: Silver PS3 Slim due March

Sony is launching a limited edition Satin Silver PlayStation 3 Slim in Japan on March 10th. The console will be offered with either a 160GB hard drive or 320GB hard drive. These will cost 29,980 (228) and 34,980 (266) respectively, Andriasang reports. Each console also includes a silver controller. In …

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Plants vs Zombies shuffling to PS3

One of PopCap’s biggest hits, colourful tower defence title Plants vs Zombies, is coming to PS3. The conversion is being handled by Sony Online Entertainment, the studio which also bought fellow PopCap title Bejeweled and Peggle to PS3. PvZ is one of six new titles SOE is bringing to PS3, …

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Android leads smartphone market

A new study from Canalys claims that in the final quarter of 2010 Google mobile OS Android overtook Nokia’s Symbian platform to become the best selling smartphone OS in the world. Shipment of Android-based devices hit 33.3m worldwide in the period. By comparison, Symbian device sales hit 31m. Apple iOS …

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OPINION: Sony’s piracy battle

If December’s much-publicised gutting of the PlayStation 3’s security systems is proof of anything, it’s this: Where software is concerned, there is no such thing as an unpickable lock, and piracy-prevention strategies that amount solely to locking the door are doomed to failure. Until a few, short weeks ago, the …

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US: PlayStation Move Heroes bundle announced

Sony has revealed a new bundle for the March release of Move-specific platform titles PlayStation Move Heroes. Called the PlayStation Move Heroes Bundle, the $99.99 SKU will include a copy of the game, one Move motion controller and a PlayStation Eye camera. The bundle will be exclusive to Toys R …

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