The Sony PS3 console is to get a serious price cut, with Sony announcing this “in the next couple of days”. The savings will come because Sony is introducing a version of the PS3 without its Blu-ray disc drive. At least, that’s what Mike Hickey, analyst at Janco Partners believes.
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If you’re reading this, you presumably haven’t heard that GTA IV: The Lost and Damned expansion is out right now, waiting to be downloaded for 1600 Microsoft points. Better hop to it. But what are you going to do while you wait for the 1.78GB expansion to arrive? Dress up your Avatar like a biker, of course. A raft of new leather-themed Avatar clothes has just hit NXE.
Xbox 360 is leading the PS3 in Europe, according to Microsoft – and it reckons it has the figures to prove it. The data comes from GfK Chart-Track, which estimates the Xbox 360 has sold approximately one million units more than PS3, and stands at odds with the claims Sony was making in May last year.
Sony boss man Kaz Hirai came out with some serious fightin’ talk when he told an interview that the Xbox 360 “lacks longevity” and that the PS3 would rule by the end of this console war. But was Microsoft going to stand by and let that slide? The hell it was. Xbox’s director of product management, Aaron Greenberg, has already struck back, calling Sony “complacent” and “out of touch”.
If you’ve found a deal on a Nintendo DS and DS Lite that seems a bit too good to be true, then you might be about to get your fingers burned. Literally. HM Revenue & Customs is warning that hundreds of counterfeit handhelds, recently seized at national freight depots, have been found to contain power adaptors that have not met UK safety standards.
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console has enjoyed another week outselling its rival, the Sony PS3, in Japan. For the week ending October 17, the 360 outsold the PS3 by 25 per cent (4,800 PS3s versus 6,000 Xbox 360s). But other figures released show that Microsoft has a long way to go before it challenges Sony’s overall sales figures in the region.
Well, according to Microsoft it does. The Tokyo Game Show this weekend has been a hotbed of Microsoft employee quotables, stats releases and game announcements on how well the Xbox 360 is doing over there. Here they all are in one easily digestible package:
The PlayStation 3 may be cutting edge, but it still requires a shell the size of a grand piano to fit it all in. But a smaller version that actually fits inside a house may well be on the way thanks to some new processor magic. Read more