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Sony has added to its global PS4 sales info by confirming the console’s UK success in 2014. The platform holder says GfK Chart-Track data shows that PS4 was the UK’s best-selling console in 2014 and also the best-selling machine on both Black Friday and Cyber Monday in November. It was …
Read More »PS4 sales surpass 18.5m units worldwide
PlayStation 4 has sold more than 18.5m consoles worldwide, Sony has announced. The firm adds that 4.1m of that total were sold during the 2014 holiday shopping season, which ran from November 23rd to January 4th. Sony also revealed that 81.8m PS4 games had been sold since the system’s November …
Read More »PS4 sales top 18.5 million
PlayStation Plus subscriptions reach 10.9m
Read More »PlayStation Now game streaming priced at $20 a month
Subscription services officially launches on January 13th in US
Read More »US PlayStation Now streaming subscription prices revealed
A one-month subscription to Sony’s PS3 game streaming service will cost PS4 owners $19.99, it has been revealed. The US PlayStation Blog has said that access to the service will cost either $19.99 a month or $44.99 for three months (averaging out at around $15 per month). For the money …
Read More »Sony compensates gamers for PSN downtime
PlayStation owners are being compensated for the downtime suffered by PSN over Christmas. The PSN was brought down by a group (called Lizard Squad) who apparently wanted to show Sony and Microsoft how easy it is to bring down their networks. But they only really succeeded in angering gamers and …
Read More »Sony warns of possible European PS4 shortage
There may be a shortage of PS4 consoles in some European countries over the remainder of the holiday period. That’s according to Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Andrew House, who told Reuters that Europe I think it is potentially, for the second year running, going to be quite inventory challenged”. He …
Read More »Stores tip PS4 to be No.1 in 2015, but it will be close
UK games retailers expect the showdown between PS4 and Xbox One in 2015 to go down to the wire. In MCV’s annual retail survey, 55 per cent of respondents tipped PS4 to end next year on-top, while 41 per cent backed Xbox One (the remainder went for other hardware). Yet …
Read More »Sony promises to shore up 20th Anniversary PlayStation sale process
A widely publicised exploit that has allowed anyone to enter the ballot to buy a 20th Anniversary PS4 is to be shored up by Sony. Yesterday one grumpy gamer published a post entitled "Hacking the PlayStation competition" that allowed people to access the purchase form without jumping through the hoops …
Read More »PS4 smashes 1m sales barrier in France
1m PS4 consoles have now been sold in France, the firm has announced. The milestone follows the UK and then Germany. UK shifted 1m PS4 units in September, followed by Germany in November. PS4 sailed past 1m sales in France on December 17th, which makes the console the fastest-selling games …
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