Posts tagged Sony,Playstation,Ps3,Launch 
Gran Turismo 5 speeds past 430K sold to top weekly sales in Japan
Not quite Pokémon numbers, Gran Turismo 5's launch week sales were still plenty enough to land the long-awaited racing sim firmly in first place atop Japan's bestsellers list for the week ending November 28. With 430,707 units sold (by Media Create's count) in its first four days at Japanese...
Start your engines: PS3's are in production
According to certain reports, Asustek Computer has started shipping PlayStation 3's back to Sony in small numbers as the manufacturing process is clearly underway. Two hundred thousand component sets were shipped to Asus in June and over one million are planned for September and October. This means...
Assassin's Creed gets exclusive... or does it?
We've just about heard everyone's opinion regarding the exclusivity of Assassin's Creed and the PS3. Sony fans want this thing to be theirs alone, but popular guesses indicate something different. Officially, the title "is coming to the PS3. No other announcements have been made." But Luke Smith fr...
Phil Harrison speaks on reactions and controllers
It's been a month since the ubergeek gathering at E3, but people are still interested in collecting the opinions of Sony's showing. One such interview tries to pry into the mind of Phil Harrison in an attempt to find out his thoughts on the public's reaction to the show and the controller. When aske...
John Woo's Stranglehold set for launch
If there's one game that will excite you in the right places for the PS3, you can count on it being John Woo Presents Stranglehold. Inspector Tequila (starring Chow Yun-Fat) will jump, spin, kick and shoot your socks off in this "loose followup" to the Hard Boiled series. So here's some good news: ...
NBA Live 07 to be launch title, Mavericks win Finals
If you're a basketball aficionado you may be interested to know that NBA Live 07 is slated to be one of EA's lineups for the PS3 launch. By "one of" I'm of course alluding to their tendency to include an army of sports games for November and the Sony console as well. You may also be interested in t...
More growing concerns over PS3 hardware?
It's not hard to connect the dots or figure out how all this started, but Sony's flagship console (the newest version at least) has started to become the system everyone loves to rail on. Take this latest article for example. According to the author's source, Sony is having some major problems with...
The salvation or scourge of Sony?
Here's another great article outlining the perspective of the PlayStation 3 being Sony's saving grace or big stink. Ever since E3, critics and fans alike have been a little edgy about the company's strategy for the next-gen console. But we've said it before and it's worth mentioning again: the PS3 i...
Peter Moore shares his thoughts on Sony
With the looming launch of the PS3, it's always fun to get a reaction from the front-liners on the other side. Peter Moore sat down with Eurogamer the other day and spilled his thoughts on Sony and their new controller. "At Microsoft we did the same controller six years ago ... The gamers' response ...
The great PlayStation 3 gamble
Here's a very interesting analysis of why Sony has to take the PS3 to the bank, or go down in flames trying. With Sony having been king of the games industry for so long, they are having to pay heavy to keep that position. Yes, they are behind a year. And yes, the price of the console is causing som...
