Tag archive: Playstation

As reported by Kotaku earlier today, Sony is ditching plans to allow new Vita owners to download PSP titles that they currently own on UMD disc. Sony rolled out this program in Japan at launch during December 2011 and all Japanese owners can register their UMD titles on the Vita by paying a fee based on the value of the game, thus Japanese owners can avoid having to repurchase the titles at full cost on the PlayStation Vita digital download… Read More

As expected, Sony Corp. has replace Sir. Howard Stringer as president and chief executive officer with Executive Deputy President Kazuo Hirai, who was named head of the company's consolidated consumer products division last March. Stringer will remain Sony's chairman until June, when he will become chairman of the company's board of directors. Hirai will officially take over as CEO April 1. The top-level changing of the guard… Read More

With the North American PS Vita launch coming to a February 22 near you, Sony has unveiled two Vita bundles, hoping to drum up interest in the 3G version. Sony will normally be selling the Vita's 3G-added version for $300, and the WiFi only version for $50 less. However, on the launch day, Playstation is offering up a new 3G/WiFi bundle that includes the handheld device and related hardware, as well as an 8GB proprietary PS Vita memory… Read More

Launching nearly ten months after the Nintendo 3DS hit North American shores, Nintendo is rolling out support for demos that can be downloaded through the Nintendo eShop. As of January 19, Nintendo 3DS owners can download a trial version of Capcom's Resident Evil: Revelations, a title that's launching in North America in approximately three weeks. During the following week, 3DS owners will be able to check out Sega's Mario… Read More

Mentioned by Bloomberg earlier today, sales of the PlayStation Vita have fallen by nearly 80 percent during the week that ended on December 25 according to tracking firm Media Create. Sony sold approximately 325,000 Vita units on December 17 and 18, but only sold about 10,000 units a day during the following week. Sales of the PlayStation Portable beat sales of the PlayStation Vita by approximately 25,000 units. In addition, Nintendo saw… Read More

With the US/Canada launch of Sony’s new PlayStation Vita handheld gaming system just a couple of months away, the company has announced details about what games buyers of the new device can look forward to.  In a post on the PlayStation blog on Thursday, director of hardware marketing John Koller said there would be 25 games available, with 100 more in development, when Vita launches on February 22.  “SCE Worldwide Studios, along with our… Read More

While Sony rolled out a sizable revision to PlayStation Home approximately three weeks ago, the social gaming environment has been expanded today to include virtual movie watching with friends. Pretty much identical to the concept of party viewing on the Xbox 360, the update to PlayStation Home allows PlayStation 3 owners to bring up movies served through the Sony Pictures Entertainment-owned Crackle and play the films within the virtual… Read More

Previously announced during early November, Sony rolled out a revised version of the PlayStation Network digital rights management policy for owners of the PlayStation 3 and the PlayStation Portable. The policy change will also apply to the Vita when it launches in North America next year. All new game purchases made on the PlayStation Network as of November 18 can only be accessed on two devices at any given time. Sony previous allowed users… Read More

Sony issued a statement on Wednesday saying that the company had locked down a number of user accounts after it had detected a large number of unauthorized sign-in attempts on its PlayStation Network (PSN), Sony Entertainment Network (SEN) and Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) services. Sony chief information security officer Philip Reitinger wrote in the statement: “There were approximately 93,000 accounts (PSN/SEN: approximately 60,000 accounts;… Read More

Speaking to reporters in the Japanese capital just ahead of the Tokyo Game Show, Sony’s Hiroshi Kawano said the PlayStation Vita handheld games machine would launch in Japan on December 17. According to a Reuters report, Kawano, who heads the domestic unit of Sony's games business, said there are no plans to discount the price of the gadget. There had been speculation about whether the electronics giant would reduce Vita’s price in light… Read More

In a yearly study conducted by the Ponemon Institute and funded by Hewlett-Packard, the median cost of dealing with prevention and the repercussions of cybercrime rose from $3.8 million a year in 2010 to $5.9 million a year in 2011. Over the 50 companies in the study, the range of costs varied from $1.5 million to $36.5 million per organization. Over the four-week period of the study, all the organizations put up with 72 successful attacks a… Read More

Sony had a hell of an E3 this year. Coming off of the public relations disaster that stemmed from the month-long outage of PlayStation Network, Qriocity and Sony Online Entertainment following a network security breach, the game publisher and console maker came out swinging with a brand new portable gaming device, the PS Vita. The power of the hardware is enough that accessing content available for both the PS3 and Vita in a cloud is possible,… Read More

Electronics giant Sony has announced that on Thursday the company will fully restore all Qriocity services following a lengthy period of downtime which occurred as a result of a massive security breach back in April. The restoration will see full functionality returning to Qriocity's Video On Demand and Music Unlimited services across all compatible devices. In a statement released in Tokyo on Thursday, Sony said it will “fully restore… Read More

Sony has long been saying it's betting the future of gaming and home entertainment is in 3D, and at this year's E3 the company is making good on its word with the announcement of a new 24-inch 3D Display. Due to land in virtually worldwide in time for the end-of-year holiday buying season, the 24-inch Display will not only handle traditional 3D movies and gaming content from Sony's PlayStation 3, it will also be able to show… Read More

Sony show highlights: A handful of new exclusive games were highlighted, including Uncharted 3: Drake’s Fortune, inFamous 2 and Resistance 3. The Move is still going strong, and several new titles will feature Move compatibility. Among those are NBA2K12, inFamous 2, Saints Row 3, Star Trek, and BioShock Infinite. A few new games were officially announced, including: God of War Origins—an HD and 3D remastered version of the PSP God of War… Read More