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First Edition of Sony PlayStation Vita to come soon

Published on: 8th November, 2011

Sony gave an answer to concerns regarding its PlayStation Vita by providing early adopters with a special model. Its First Edition will come with a PS Vita card with 4GB, a special-run case, as well as the mini-game Little Deviants. Exceptionally, the device will ship an entire week earlier than for normal users and will [...]

Nintendo chief says the company will rely less on itself to sell systems

Published on: 2nd May, 2011

Satoru Iwata, Nintendo’s chief, present at an investor summit, had to admit that his company had leant too much on its own games and marketing in order to drive console sales. After a 66 percent decline in profit attributed to Wii sales, the company’s CEO wished Nintedo had relied on someone from the outside to [...]

Xbox 360’s spring update to add 1GB of storage

Published on: 8th April, 2011

The new format of the Xbox 360 disc is providing 1GB of storage back and is making it free for games, says a development source. Current games on the Xbox 360 have to reserve a DVD video partition for measures to avoid piracy. The usable space is therefore limited to 6.8GB. Microsoft is testing the [...]

Nintendo 3DS record sales to be unveiled on April 14

Published on: 4th April, 2011

Media found out from Nintendo that the 3DS launch had been very successful and had set a record for the best first-day sales in the history of the company. In its try to dampen concerns related to the black screen of death, the company has announced the sales were the highest of any hand-held system [...]

Defenders of PS3 jailbreaker insist for case dismissal

Published on: 1st April, 2011

Lawyers who defend the PS3 jailbreaker George Hotz have scathingly answered Sony’s recent court filing by rejecting nearly all the accusations brought by the company. The attorneys of the defendant still fight Sony’s request of a trial in California, by arguing that it is the Japanese division that produces the hardware and firmware for the [...]

Microsoft could target new Xbox hardware for 2015

Published on: 24th March, 2011

According to recent discoveries, Microsoft may not launch any genuine Xbox hardware for the next four years. A profile for designer Ben Peterson mentions some work for the company’s Interactive Entertainment Business which would investigate future user experiences and hardware for the year 2015. A teaser shot illustrates a brief glimpse of what is apparently [...]

NPD says that Xbox and Black Ops broke sales records

Published on: 16th March, 2011

The Microsoft Xbox 360 console has recently broken the company’s record for non-holiday sales; according to numbers collected by NPD group (research firm), shipments have reached 535,000 systems only in February. Microsoft’s post-holiday performance has surpassed the famous September 2007 sales boost, which coincided with Halo 3. David Dennis, Microsoft’s group manager, suggested that the [...]

Microsoft posts new jobs for third-generation Xbox

Published on: 13th March, 2011

Microsoft seems to show the first signs of preparing for its Xbox 360’s eventual substitution with a set of new jobs posted on March 4 and discovered three days later. Listings for VLSI performance and graphics architects would offer new recruits the possibility to work on next generation console architectures; the jobs target for a [...]

Sony confirms PS3s seized by custom officers in Europe following LG patent fight

Published on: 8th March, 2011

Sony confirmed a few days ago that shipments of PlayStation 3 game consoles had been seized in the Netherlands by custom officers, following a court injunction. As a consequence of LG winning the case, which said the console had violated patents held by the electronics maker from South Korea with its Blu-ray drive, a Dutch [...]

Sony’s PlayStation 3 banned in Europe because of LG

Published on: 3rd March, 2011

Sony has recently faced a major problem as LG landed a preliminary restriction, banning the PlayStation 3 from being sold in Europe. Moreover, a civil court in The Hague decided that and PlayStation 3s imported in Europe will be confiscated by government officials for a minimum of the next ten days. The Guardian declared that [...]

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