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According to Sony’s PlayStation director of hardware marketing in a recent interview, approximately 63 percent of PlayStation 3 owners said they would purchase the Vita once released next year. In addition, 60 percent of PlayStation Portable owners plan on purchasing the Vita before August 2013. However, no clarification was offered on how these figures were obtained. It's possible that respondents were derived from registered users on an… Read More

According to a report released by the Digital Entertainment Group, Blu-ray sales are up 58 percent during the third quarter of 2011 compared to the previous year. In fact, the amount of money that consumers spend on home entertainment has seen the first increase since the U.S. recession began in early 2008. With a five percent increase over the previous year, a portion of that was driven by Blu-ray sales as well as a 13 percent increase in… Read More

Walmart-owned Vudu moved into third place for video streaming as reported by IHS today. In the first half of 2010, Vudu only had about one percent of the market, but leaps to just over five percent in the first half of 2011. This catapults Vudu over Amazon's streaming service as well as video streaming on the Sony PlayStation 3. While Amazon's market share slightly increase from 4 percent in 2010 to 4.2 percent in 2011, Sony's… Read More

Sony's upcoming portable gaming platform, codenamed NGP (Next-Generation Portable), is a powerful piece of tech. Early looks at the handheld's games in action certainly fall close to what we're used to seeing from the platform holder's PlayStation 3. As it turns out, porting an experience from Sony's Blu-ray equipped gaming console over to its 2011-releasing portable sibling is a “simple and quick”… Read More

Video game hardware and software sales in US declined 10 percent in August, according to a report by market researcher NPD Group. Year-to-date numbers aren’t any better, with revenues dropping 8 percent compared to last year. The August numbers tell an interesting story: Sales of game software dove 14 percent, compared to the 5-percent slide for consoles and portables. Falling 12 percent, August was the weakest month for the Nintendo Wii ever… Read More

Some PlayStation 3 users in the U.S. will be able to try out the $9.99-per-month video subscription plan from Hulu right away. Sony Corp. says that means the PlayStation 3 will be the only game console able to play streaming videos from Hulu this year. Hulu plans to launch its Hulu Plus subscription service on Microsoft's Xbox 360 early next year. Invitations will be sent to certain subscribers of PlayStation Plus, a $49.99-a-year service… Read More

Like many gamers, you love your Sony PlayStation 3 console for its many first- and third-party games, killer graphics and plenty of multimedia support for the playback of Blu-ray Discs, DVDs, music, photos, and more. You're also aware you can digitally download a ton of content and play games online for free via PlayStation Network (PSN) — opposed to paying $50 a year for an Xbox Live Gold account.

The malls are doused in red, hearts keep cropping up in every display window, and a nonstop barrage of jeweler’s commercials implore you to buy something shiny. Valentine’s Day must be just around the corner. While you could always make the last-minute dash for chocolates, buy flowers out of a bucket on your local freeway off-ramp, or rack up a four-digit credit card bill for something in a red velvet box, we’re of the opinion that gifts that… Read More

So you’re ready to take the plunge and buy a PlayStation 3 Slim. Congratulations, at $300, there’s never been a better time to buy. But the skeptical consumer can’t help but wonder: What’s the catch? Is it missing something? In short, the answer is “not much,” but Sony has made a handful of very slight changes to the new machine that are worth reviewing before you buy. Here’s what’s new. Refreshed Design This one’s impossible to miss.… Read More

Media analysis firm NPD has released its figures for video game hardware and software sales for the month of July 2009…and thoughts of the video game industry somehow being “recession-proof” are being set aside as the industry marks a 29 percent year-on-year decline in sales to $848.9 million for the month. Taken on their own, hardware sales suffered an even steeper decline: 37 percent compared to July of 2008. Software sales were… Read More

I recall the arguments when Cable TV was first getting started which concluded no one would ever be stupid enough to pay for something they can get for free. Well there are clearly a good chunk of us who are terminally stupid because cable was a success although I think many of us probably wish it hadn’t been. With Cable you are typically locked in to what the cable company wants to use for hardware and the programming the… Read More

Last week we wrote about Orb Networking launching their MyCasting service for the Sony Playstation 3, today the company announced thatthey have received an overwhelming response of downloads for the Nintendo Wii; more than 50,000 to be exact.So what exactly does the MyCasting service do? It let's you stream media from your PC to your game console. The MyCasting software is available for free download. Once installed the user… Read More