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Speaking earlier today, Sony chief executive Howard Stringer said that the firm’s three-year cost cutting reforms, which included the sale of its Cell CPU business to Toshiba , had placed the firm in a strong financial position that will allow it to bring back some of the wow factor that …
Read More »Tretton: We underestimated PS3 ‘education process’
CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America Jack Tretton has admitted that many consumers were still left in the dark about PS3’s capabilities following the console’s launch. In an interview with GameDaily , to celebrate his first full year as CEO, Tretton said: We are on our fourth platform introduction, and …
Read More »Sony unveils Xmas PS3 TV campaign
Sony has revealed details of its first ever dedicated PS3 Christmas TV campaign in Europe – which will concentrate on the high definition capabilities of the system. Themed around the tagline ‘Entertainment like you’ve never seen it before’, 60 and 30-second ads will run on UK TV from December 1st. …
Read More »Sony strongly denies possibility of PSP phone
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has shot down the rumour that it is working with Sony Ericsson on a PlayStation-related mobile phone. An SCEE spokesperson told MCV: We can categorically state that we are not currently working with Sony Ericsson on any form of PlayStation phone. We feel that [SCE co-chief …
Read More »Sony halves cost of PS3 dev kit
Debug units now also support programming, not just QA
Read More »PS3 to incorporate DivX
Sony’s next gen console is to come loaded with DivX video technology. For those that already own a PS3, DivX functionality will be made available via a software update. Developers will be able to utilise DivX’s decoder technology by updating the system software of PS3’s Software Development Kit to version …
Read More »SingStar PS3 dated
Sony has confirmed that SingStar on PS3 will be released in the UK on December 7th. The company will promote the title via its MySpace site and through dedicated ‘Singstar Studio’ pods at the 02 arena in London. A wider European release will follow on December 12th. The news was …
Read More »Sony snaps up sales duo
SCE UK has snapped up two new national account managers. Sukhi Gidda joins the team with a string of industry jobs behind him, making the move to SCE directly from Buena Vista Games, where he spent over two years working on numerous titles such as Narnia, Pirates of the Caribbean, …
Read More »Sony: Games losses double but overall profits climb
Sony has confirmed that operating losses for its games division have more than doubled for the quarter ending September 30th, hitting YEN 96.7 billion compared to YEN 53.2 billion in the same period last year. However, across the whole business Sony posted a quarterly operating profit of YEN 90.5 billion, …
Read More »Sony invites you to play Buzz! online
SCEE is inviting members of the industry to take up its Buzz! challenge at www.letsplaybuzz.com . The publisher is celebrating the release of Buzz! Hollywood, which entered the UK charts this week. Players have to answer a series of Buzz!-style posers – including a fair few on Tinseltown itself. They …
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