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Phil Harrison’s successor as president of Sony’s worldwide studios operation has been named, with the company choosing SCEA studios boss Shuhei Yoshida to run the format-holder’s global games teams. Yoshida joined Sony Computer Entertainment Interational in 1993, and was one of the initial members in establishing the PlayStation business. Later, …

Shuhei Yoshida, SVP of SCEA studios, takes up the post as president of global studio operation, replacing Phil Harrison

Sony expects to sell 10 million PS3 units in the next financial year. That’sonly slightly up from up from the 9.24 million the firm this morning announced it had shifted for the 12 months ending March 31st, 2008. PSP hardware sales – which led the way for the PlayStation family …

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 …

Forget Microsoft and Nintendo – PS3’s content can take on movies, TV and the web in the battle for the wider entertainment space. That was the message from SCE president Kaz Hirai as he spoke to MCV at this week’s PlayStation Day, at which the platform holder revealed a string …

Sony Computer Entertainment has announced that shipments for the Gran Turismo series have broken through the 50 million mark. According to website Dengeki Online and translated by MCV, the figures encompass the seven titles released under the Gran Turismo brand since the PSOne original released in 1997. According to Sony’s …

Sony’s PS3 hit 10.5 million global sales at the end of 2007, the platform holder has revealed. Showing off stats at its PlayStation Day ’08 in at the O2 Arena’s Indigo room in South East London, SCEE president David Reeves also revealed the global sales for other PlayStation hardware at …

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe president David Reeves has claimed that PS3 has outsold Microsoft’s Xbox 360 month-on-month in Europe since October last year. Speaking as part of Sony’s PlayStation Day at the O2 Arena’s Indigo room in South-East London, Reeves also talked much about the passion” of PlayStation – and …