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I’ve been a PlayStation 3 owner for almost two years now. I’m pleased with my PS3’s performance. Despite its frequent use, my console has never failed me so far. When official word of the cheaper PS3 Slim came out, I [...]

Sony is up to something. DigiTimes recently revealed that the console maker “placed significant orders for key Sony PS3 components” from Taiwan-based IC distributors. In this case, “significant” equates to enough parts for producing a million PlayStation 3s for the third quarter.
According to the IC distributors, the recent orders are about double the average that [...]

Do you smell that? It’s the scent of hogwash. It’s coming from an interview with Sony’s product planning group head, Naoya Matsui at GameBusiness.jp (via Joystiq). Matsui revealed that Sony had always planned for its PlayStation Portable to go UMD-less, and that its new PSP Go is the end result of that vision.
Matsui said:
We’d planned [...]

Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter has the greatest job in the world. He’s paid to guess gaming trends, and even when he’s wrong (he usually is), he still gets a monthly check. Strangely, many people seem to believe him. Take his new prediction for the Xbox 360, for example.
Pachter says the Xbox 360 will end [...]

Sony has had it with the dominance of Apple’s iPhone. As you may have heard, Sony’s joint venture with Ericsson isn’t doing too well (again, thanks to the iPhone). As a result, Sony is finally developing a “cellphone-game gear hybrid” that aims to compete with the iPod and iPhone.
According to Nikkei, Sony is going to [...]