Sony: No Price Cut
Chief Financial Officer Nobuyuki Oneda, Sony Corp said on Friday that Sont themselves has no plans to cut the price of the Playstation 3.
Oneda said:
“Our strategy is not to sell more quantity for PS3 but to concentrate on profitability. Our plan is not to reduce the price.”
So now would be a good time to purchase [...]
No price cut yet for the Playstation 3
According to Signal Hill analyst Todd Greenwald, Sony will hold its ground against an Xbox 360 price cut, which has been all but confirmed.
Greenwald said:
“We do not expect a price cut on the PS3 just yet,
Sony appears to be focused on profitability right now, and actually has some momentum behind it now with the Blu-ray [...]
Why PS3 games install
The Official Playstation Magazine (August issue) has the reasoning as to why a certain amount of Playstation 3 games require an install. Its because its quicker to read the game data from the hard drive rather than the Blu-Ray disc. This also means shorter loading times during gameplay.
Chief software architect at Eutechnyx, Dr Andrew Perella [...]
7200rpm vs 5400rpm hard drive
If your filling up your Playstation 3’s hard drive and looking for more space, you might consider getting a faster hard drive at the same time. The standard hard drive seen in PS3’s has a rotations per minute speed of 5400, you might want to look at a 7200rpm.
Ok, so lets take a look and [...]
Customer service will replace bricked Playstation 3’s
After being on the phone to Sony UK and Sony USA regarding firmware 2.40 and bricked Playstation 3’s, they told me that they will replace your PS3’s free of charge as long as you can prove its really bricked and not working with firmware 2.40 installed. How the hell are you supposed to do that? [...]
PS3 Theme: Windows VIsta Ultimate Playstation Edition
This is a Playstation 3 theme called Windows VIsta Ultimate Playstation Edition.
“The title is pretty self-explanatory. All 75 buttons were replaced with new Vista icons. Including images for SD, MS card, announcement box etc. Includes three wallpapers. Font: POP Color: Blue. Check it out yourself.”
If you don’t know how to install a theme on to [...]
PS3 Theme: Diablo III
This is a Playstation 3 theme called Diablo III and the author of this theme is BloodSpillXXT. A message from the author:
“Given the announcement earlier today, i thought this would be an excellent time to create a Diablo III PS3 Theme. This Theme consists of custom icons and 5 wallpaper sets.”
If you don’t know how [...]
US Playstation website hacked
Not really news we want to report but we’ll say it anyway. The US Playstation website has been hacked and malicious code was placed into tricking you that that they were promoting the PlayStation games SingStar Pop and God of War.
“The malicious code is said to attempt to fool the site’s visitors into running a [...]
Console Sale Figures week ending 21/06/2008
For the week ending 21st of June 2008 the sale figures according to VGChartz.com looks like this:-
The overall console sale figures now look like this:-
Consoles
Wii
6.31M Japan
12.32M America
9.45M Others
Total: 28.07M
Xbox 360
0.62M Japan
11.78M America
7.02M Others
Total: 19.41M
Playstation 3
2.23M Japan
5.16M America
6.28M Others
Total: 13.68M
Handhelds
Nintendo DS
22.96M Japan
23.54M America
28.00M Others
Total: 74.50M
Playstation Portable
9.76M Japan
12.94M America
13.04M Others
Total: 35.74M
(these sales figures are courtesy of [...]
PSN Friends list increased?
According to playstationlifestyle.net it seems the PSN friendslist limit of 50 persons has been increased but to which amount currently isn’t known yet.
The author did not have a problem of reaching the limit recently but due to a friend notifying him of this ‘change’.
Then one of my friends messaged me saying they just counted their [...]
PS3 Theme: Call of Duty 4
This is a Playstation 3 theme called Call of Duty 4 Theme and the author of this theme is EMP420.
If you don’t know how to install a theme on to your Playstation 3, click here for a step-by-step guide on how to install a Playstation 3 theme.
Click here to download this theme.
Provided by: psu.
PS3 Theme: Official Metal Gear Solid 4 Theme
This is a Playstation 3 theme called Official Metal Gear Solid 4 Theme and the author of this theme is SCEA.
If you don’t know how to install a theme on to your Playstation 3, click here for a step-by-step guide on how to install a Playstation 3 theme.
Click here to download this theme.
Provided by: psu.
Reeves: PS3 will outsell PS2’s 100m install base
The president of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, David Reeves believes that the Playstation 3 will pass Playstation 2’s install base of 100million plus. He said that the PS3 is currently growing faster than what the PS2’s was growing at, at this point in its lifecycle.
“The PS3 install base is growing faster than PS2’s was at [...]
Console Sale Figures week ending 14/06/2008
Metal Gear Solid 4 was released and it sure shifted some units, it made the PS3 outsell even the Wii.
For the week ending 14th of June 2008 the sale figures according to VGChartz.com looks like this:-
The overall console sale figures now look like this:-
Consoles
Wii
6.26M Japan
12.14M America
9.32M Others
Total: 27.72M
Xbox 360
0.62M Japan
11.72M America
6.92M Others
Total: 19.26M
Playstation 3
2.21M [...]
After 2.4, what is needed for PSN?
So Xbox Live has been better than Playstation Network in terms of features and still is better but with Firmware Version 2.4 on the way things are about to change.
So when firmware 2.4 is released the Playstation Network will be pretty much neck to neck with Xbox Live. Firmware 2.4 will add in-game XMB and [...]
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