Sony have come clean with some more details regarding its upcoming Motion Controller, while Joystiq managed to snap a shot of the movement-tracking peripheral at the company’s Tokyo Game Show keynote. According to Sony, the controller – which may well be renamed before launch next year – should meet the “stringent” demands of hardcore gamers, thanks to its combination of two motion sensors, three axes gyroscope and three axes accelerometer.
Sony’s PS3 Slim may have only been on sale for three weeks – the compact console arrived on September 1st – but they’ve already shifted one million units worldwide. The PS3 Slim simultaneously hit shelves in North America, Europe, Asia and Japan for $299, €299 or 29,980 yen respectively, complete with a 120GB hard-drive and Full HD 1080p support. To celebrate – or perhaps just as a nice coincidence – Sony Japan have announced a 250GB PS3 Slim bundle, with a “ceramic white” console and Final Fantasy XIII Lightning Edition.
Sony may have denied the existence of any imminent 250GB PS3 Slim bundles, but obviously nobody told retailer GameStop in Norway. According to an apparent leak from their inventory system, several 250GB SKUs – bundling titles like Need for Speed: Shift, FIFA 10, Uncharted 2 and Assassin’s Creed 2 – are incoming to the store.
Sony Japan have outed their latest set of headphones, and while the MDR-770LP may not have anything fancy like Bluetooth connectivity they’re nonetheless pretty handsome. Based around a pair of moveable neodymium magnet drivers, the headphones are finished in with a faux-leather effect.
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Nintendo regularly quash Wii HD rumors, but they keep on coming back. Latest to reignite the speculation is none other than Square Enix chief Yoichi Wada, who has stuck his neck out and suggested 2011 as the launch window for the reworked console. Wada tips the new Wii HD as having many of the features as the Xbox 360 and PS3, to which we're assuming he's referring to media-centric functionality.
Sony’s PSP “minis” download games for the upcoming PSP Go are already prompting confusion, not least because of the company’s own guidelines for developers hoping to fast-track their submissions. Sony has revealed its policies for PlayStation Network approval, including details on the “accelerated approvals process”; unfortunately, for titles to qualify for that process they must be single-player, have no network or downloadable content, and no peripheral support.
Sony Japan have announced a bevy of new Walkman PMPs, the NW-A840, S740 and S640. The A840-series gets an OLED display like its X-Series sibling, but in this case its a regular display rather than a touchscreen. Still, it manages to be the thinnest Walkman to-date, at just 7.2mm thick, despite that 2.8-inch display, up to 64GB of storage and a battery apparently good for up to 29 hours of music playback or 9 hours of video.
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Who’s tired of official announcements? Well, we’re not, but let’s shake some things up with a bit of a leak, what do you say? Well, not so much a leak, as a rumor. A rumor from a mole. So you know just about how far you can take this: as long as your imagination goes. Either way, if the competition has anything to say about it, then a 250GB PS3 Slim doesn’t seem all that impossible.
Sony has debuted a new Blu-ray player called the BDP-N460 to go along with that $2,000 AV receiver I mentioned a bit ago. The new Blu-ray player offers the capability to stream Internet video to the big screen in the living room.
Sony is a big name in the consumer electronics industry and makes some great HDTVs, receivers, and Blu-ray players. Sony has unveiled a new AV receiver designed to help users get HD video and content throughout the home. The new receiver is the STR-DA5500ES.
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