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Sony PS3 Slim still sold at a loss; Motion-controller coming spring 2010

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Aug 25th 2009 No Comments

Sony Computer Entertainment boss Kazuo “Kaz” Hirai has confirmed that the company will continue to lose money on each of the $299 PS3 Slim consoles they sell, together with revealing that Sony’s motion-controller has been pencilled in for a release in spring 2010. Meanwhile he also denied that, with the advent of the UMD-free PSP Go, we are seeing “the death of physical media”, pointing to the large percentage of the 100 countries Sony sells gaming products in that don’t have access to high-speed internet connections for downloads.

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Game & DVD age restrictions undermined after UK legal blunder

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Aug 25th 2009 No Comments

Retailers in the UK are currently under no legal obligation to observe the age classifications on violent or sexually-explicit video games or DVDs, thanks to a legal blunder. The issue is being blamed on an administrative oversight by the Conservative government 25 years ago, where they neglected to inform the European Commission about the 1984 Video Recordings Act.

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PS3 Slim never getting PS2 game support confirms Sony

By Chris Davies on Friday, Aug 21st 2009 No Comments

Sony have confirmed that the PS3 Slim will never get PlayStation 2 backward compatibility. According to Sony's director of hardware marketing, John Koller, PS2 compatibility is "not coming back, so let me put that on the table", as well as suggesting that "it's not as big as a purchase intent driver as you may be hearing."

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Sony PS3 Slim gets new, faster 45nm Cell CPU

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Aug 20th 2009 No Comments

Sony’s latest PS3 may be slimmer, smaller and quieter than its predecessor, but its real surprise may be lurking inside. The company has apparently updated their Cell processor built on 45nm processes rather than the previous 65nm chip; that not only makes for cheaper production, helping Sony bring down the PS3 Slim’s price to $299.99, but it also brings with it increased performance.

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Sony PlayStation 3 Slim stand gets pictured

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Aug 20th 2009 No Comments

If you decided that the Sony PlayStation 3 slim will still take up to much space when horizontal, and that the vertical stand is a must, then this is what your $24 will get you. If we’re honest, we didn’t expect Sony to particularly innovate when it came to this accessory, but it would still have been nice for them to put more than the minority of effort in that the end result required.

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Sony slimline PlayStation 3: all the details you need

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Aug 19th 2009 4 Comments

The Sony PS3 Slim is finally upon us, and we’ve been gathering up all the information you might need in order to choose between the newly-discounted current models or hold off until the new version arrives in North America and Europe on September 1st (Japan on September 3rd). After the cut, the full press release and spec-sheet, together with all the official shots of the new PlayStation 3 and a video interview with Jack Tretton about the new console.

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iBUYPOWER USB IES Controller announced

By Brenda Stokes on Tuesday, Aug 18th 2009 No Comments

iBUYPOWER revealed a new USB Internal Expansion System or IES Controller today that’s proprietary to the company and offers a significant power boost to the USB ports and card readers on PCs.

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Sony Finally Gets Around to Officially Announcing Slim PlayStation 3

By Evan Selleck on Tuesday, Aug 18th 2009 No Comments

Well, it’s “been rumored“, it’s been “teased“, and there’s even been “a little bit of a pre-order situation going on over at Kmart,” but up until now, Sony has been all but against the thought of a slim PlayStation 3. It looks things are changing though, and for the better. As that Kmart pre-order screen shows us, the slim PS3 will boast a 120GB hard drive, come bundled with a DualShock 3 controller, as well as an HDMI port that supports 1080p high definition.

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Microsoft yank Xbox 360 Elite bundled HD cables

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Aug 18th 2009 1 Comment

Someone needs to take Microsoft aside and tell them that sometimes the obvious penny savings still aren’t the ones to make. According to several GameStop employees, Microsoft have not only changed the packaging of the Xbox 360 Elite, but yanked the HDMI cables out of there too. In fact, they’ve made changes to the included accessories that – out of the box at least – limit new users to SD resolution graphics.

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Sony PS3 Slim $299.99 preorders being taken by Kmart

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Aug 18th 2009 No Comments

Since Kmart jumped the gun this morning and updated their site to tease the upcoming Sony PS3 Slim, we’ve been eagerly hitting their link in the hope that the preorder page might show up. Sure enough, the PS3 Slim has made an appearance – although in a very spartan listing with no image as yet – priced at $299.99.

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