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News Sony Trademark The Name "TV Superstars"
TV Superstars
It sounds sorta Buzz!-esque right? But given the strength of the Buzz! brand, if this latest trademark filed by Sony had anything at all to do with Buzz!, wouldn't they just call it Buzz! TV Superstars? Hmm. Food for thought. Details from Siliconera suggest TV Superstars is an online title. Could this be Sony's answer to Microsoft's...
News 250GB Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Themed Playstation 3 Bundle On The Horizon
Those sneaky spies over at Engadget have discovered a tasty morsel of information
Namely a Playstation 3 (Slim) bundle including Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and a beefed up 250GB hard-drive. Ooooh. Sony America are completely denying the bundle, but that doesn't rule out the new box in Europe, particularly the UK where Uncharted 2, Assassin's Creed...
News Playstation 3 Stock Shortages Forecast, Act Now
Playstation 3 sales are on the rise
We would take the time to find all the links to articles we've posted involving sales figures recently but, hey, you can probably find all those stories here. Fact is: Playstation 3, going like hot-cakes. What happens when things sell fast? They sell out. Analyst Arvind Bhatia reckons that the strong sales of the...
News Sony Says Thanks For Being A PSN Customer
Are you a regular user of the PSN? Chances are you probably are
Well then, you might want to check your emails. We just got a message from Sony saying "Hey, thanks for being a loyal customer". We say, that's absolutely not a problem Sony. Don't worry if you didn't get one of these. They're more an advert then anything else. We're sure Sony...
News Gran Turismo PSP Bundle Hits The US This October, $200
Here in Europe we are set to get Gran Turismo PSP with our PSP Gos
In the US though, you can expect to pick up a "Mystic Silver" PSP-3000, a copy of GT PSP on UMD, some exclusive DLC and a 2GB memory stick for just $200. That's a great bundle for Sony and we're sure it's going to do decent numbers for them in America when the bundle...
News New Playstation 3 Ads Are Comical, Brilliant & Genius All At The Same Time
"He hates candles too
!" "Come on!!" "I know, right?" "What's wrong with him?" Just part of the genius you'll experience as part of Sony's new, actually-funny-and-totally-not-weird American marketing push. The advert focuses on humour, as is highlighted by the second campaign embedded after the jump, which even...
News GamesCom 09: Sony Announce New Playstation 3, The PS3 Slim, Coming September 1st At Lower Price
After months and months of hype, the PS3 Slim has finally been announced
The new Playstation system from Sony is 33 percent smaller, 36 percent lighter and 34 percent more energy efficient. The system packs all the functionality of the current Playstation 3 models including the Blu-Ray player and a 120GB HDD. Sony have reduced the price of the...
News Sony Reckon The Playstation 3 Is "Just Getting Warmed Up"
Responding to the July NPD figures that were released last night, Sony have concluded they are "just getting warmed up
"When you compare all the features against other industry offerings, there is no doubt that the PlayStation 3 provides the most complete entertainment system on the market today right out of the box, said the firm in a...
News IGN Go Hands On With The PSP Go, Sell Us Even Further
We can't wait for October 2nd
It's no secret that we have an office PSP Go preordered. We ordered shortly after it was announced. We can't wait. Alas, that doesn't mean we aren't up to justifying our purchase that bit more, and while this video from IGN doesn't tell us anything new, we're simply awe-struck by how good the system looks. Initially,
News Sony Extend Trophy Functionality For American Whores
Hey American trophy whores
Guess what? SCEA are implementing the trophy features currently available on the European Playstation website to the ol' USA this week. The update comes with a "live-update" image of player's current trophy roster. The image will update automatically via Sony's background programming magic and will be embeddable...
News Sony Trademark "P.S. Thanks", Potential Reward Scheme Likely
A Kotaku discovered trademark seems to hint at the possibility of a Playstation based reward scheme akin to Nintendo's Club Nintendo
The aptly titled "P.S. Thanks" hints at an "incentive rewards program geared toward quantifying, identifying and motivating top consumer base with the goal of promotion and sale of video game hardware...
News Smexy Blue & Red DualShock 3 Controllers To Hit American Soils
So Engadget ran a whole patriotic angle on this story
We'll ignore that. Mainly because whether these colours are "American" or not (they remind us more of the UK, France and Holland to be honest) they look mighty gorgeous. And we'd love to see them in other countries. Namely the European ones. Because we've still only got black...
News Would You Sue Sony If You Were Banned From The Playstation Network?
Would you sue Sony if you were banned from the Playstation Network? It's a question that we've mulled over for a considerable length of time while planning this piece
On many counts we think no - because at the end of the day we'd probably have to have been a jerk in order to get banned in the first place right? Still, that's what Erik Estavallo is...
News New Greatest Hits Titles Land In North America
Good morning USA
Just a quick note to let you know there are a bunch of new "Greatest Hits" titles available for your loving Playstation 3 console. The repackaged titles, which cost just $29.99, are a great opportunity to catch-up with some of the big releases you have may have missed earlier in the PS3's life. Army of Two, Electronic...
News Jack Tretton Not Amused With The Number Of Leaks At This Year's E3
Sony's E3 conference was really good
But you know how it could have been better? If we didn't know about half of it already. Having had time to digest a good portion of Sony's E3 conference, the announcements had much less of an effect. And that's made SCEA boss Jack Tretton a bit annoyed."People don't respect confidentiality in this...
News John Koller Is Sick Of Things Leaking, Practically Confirms PS3 Slim
John Koller wants "less leaks and more meat" - well - that's what he told Ars Technica anyway
The head of hardware marketing at SCEA seems notably pissed off regarding the number of slip-ups Sony have endured over the past few months and the PS3 Slim rumours can't be helping sales. Speaking of the Slim rumour Koller said it is a matter of what...
News The Playstation Motion Controller Will Get "Hardcore Gamers" Into Motion Controls
It's a very bold statement, but one that will hopefully delight those who've cursed the Wii's existence since the releases of Wii Play, Wii Fit and EA Sports Active; Sony aim to bring motion controls to the "hardcore" - perhaps instantly finding a niche for their controller
Speaking with Kotaku, SCEA marketing chief Peter Dille discussed the new...
E3 2009 Interview With Peter Dille
GameTrailers have an exclusive interview with Sony's Peter Dille discussing their content, the PSP Go among other interesting topics
It's an interesting interview for anyone who cares; which is naturally all of you seeing as you're on this site. The second part of the interview is after the jump.
News Sony Already Passing Playstation Motion Controller Kits Out To Developers
One thing that is paramount in making your new motion controllers a success is making sure that developers can go hands on with them
At the end of the day, purchasing power of the new peripheral will be dictated by the number of games that support it. Thankfully, Sony are all to aware of that, as Peter Dille confirmed development kits are already...
E3 2009 Sony Still Have A Lot Of "Shockers" Planned
The PSP Go may have leaked, but SCEA's PR man Jake Osuwah reckons it matters diddly squat
Speaking on Twitter he claimed:<span class="entry-content">Pre-E3 annoucements or not! There's still lots of shockers planned for you guys @ E3, stay tuned...</span></blockquote> <span class="entry-content">So there...
Oooooh burned
Sometimes we're not a big fan of Sony's smack-talking. It occassionally comes off as desperation. But not this time; this quote is pure gold. It's both clever and entirely exaggerated. As all corporate crying should be. Hailing from an interview with Gamasutra, Peter Dille concluded:Yeah, I don't want to steal Jack 's quote, but he's...
We're Not Invited
SCEA's Jeff Rubenstein has confirmed that Sony of America will be holding a pre-E3 media-summit to showcase a select few media outlets. Boo! - Ed) a few of the titles set to appear at this years E3. Did we mention in the headline that Heavy Rain is going to be there. A game we're probably too excited about. Also to be showcased...
News March NPD's Are In, Fanboys Fight, Playstation 3 Fares Ok
The American sales data, also known as the NPD's, constantly bring the worst out of everyone
Particularly the XBOX 360 and Playstation 3 fanboys. Boy does it bring the worst out of them! The figures are in a predictable order, with Sony occupying the bottom half of the chart and Nintendo the top: Nintendo Wii - 601k. Nitendo DS - 563k. XBOX 360 -...
News Sony Trademarks "Starhawk", Warhawk In Space Game Confirmed
Remember when it was just a rumour that Lightbox Interactive (a team made up of former Incognito employees) were making a Warhawk type game in space? Well it's probably not rumour anymore because, well, fine-eyed employees over at Joystiq spotted that Sony had registered a trademark for the name "Starhawk"
Now, it doesn't exactly take the biggest of...
News Sony USA: Patapon 2 To Be A Digital "Test-Case"
We really liked Patapon 2
Apparently it's not out in the USA yet - in fact it's not out for a whole month - but when it does land it's going to be a download only product. Sony plan on making the game download only as a "one time test case"."We're considering a digital only format for the Patapon 2 release as a one time test case as...
Sony's head hardware marketing guy John Koller has recently earned his own tag-page here at PushSquare
And guess what, after an Easter break, the beast is back! Speaking with VG247 Koller said of Microsoft:Microsoft has had a much more lenient policy to writing cheques than we do, he said. We dont feel the need to write cheques necessarily...
News John Koller: Sony's First Party Dev Pool Is As Big As Nintendo & Microsoft's Combined
Our favourite Sony marketing motor mouth (who now warrants his own tag) John Koller wants you to know: "hey, our first party development team is as big as Nintendo and Microsoft's combined"
While we haven't done the math to confirm his claim, we're assuming he's not far off. Sony do seem to have teams all over the place, and that investment is...
News Sony Whining About The Nintendo DSi
If you walked into your local gamestore this weekend, you may have spotted huge presence for Nintendo's new tweaked DS, the DSi
Ever the antagonist, Sony's John Koller felt he had to make some dousing comments regarding the release, in which he brands the new platform a "kids" product:If Nintendo is really committed to reaching a broader,...
News MAG Actually Gets Mentioned, "Only Posssible On Playstation 3"
In a shock move, Sony have actually decided to make a comment on their upcoming 256-player online shooter, MAG
The game, which was unveiled at E3 and has since dropped off the radar, is claimed to be "only possible on Playstation 3" by SCEA's John Koller. In an interview with vg247.com, Koller said:MAG is a 256 online-player game...
News Sony Assume A 10-15% Sales Rise For Both PSP and PS3 This Year
Sony just dropped the price of the Playstation 2 and expect it to eat into some of the Wii's market share
Not content with those figures, they also expect the Playstation 3 and PSP to see a boost."We had our largest sales year ever last year, and we'd look to go about 10-15 percent north of that this year," said John Koller, head of SCEA...
News SCEA Reckon The PS2 Will Steal Market Share From The Wii, Analysts Predict 30% More Sales
The Playstation 2 is now $99
99 in the USA</a>. Sony have confirmed they are targeting the product directly against the Wii, noting both systems have "similar customers". In an economic crisis, and considering the variety of games on offer, it's a shrewd business move for Sony to make. However, we can't help but think they're a bit...
News GDC '09: Single Player Story Is Planned For Fat Princess, Releasing In The Summer
New details on upcoming PSN exclusive Fat Princess have been revealed at this years GDC
"The Legend Of Fat Princess" is a traditional story-led quest type mode explaining how "cake came to the realm" (really!), which sounds most intriguing. Also included is a "Gladiator" mode where players take a fully levelled...
News Sony Want Profits, Not Interested In Market Share
According to SCEA's VP of marketing, Peter Dille, Sony aren't focusing on market share, they want profitablity
Interestingly, they seem to be failing on both counts. He said:I think it's already well publicized that we have a very clear objective from our parent, Sony Corp., that we're to focus on a profit objective, and with those marching orders...
News February NPD's Tell Same Old Story For Sony In The USA
The February NPD's are in and show great growth for the video game industry as a whole, which was up 10% on the predictions for the month
Killzone 2, which launched two days before the end of February, secured a mildly respectable 323,000 sales, losing out to Street Fighter IV which sold 403,000 on PS3 and 446,000 on the XBOX 360. The big seller, as...
News Sony's 2009 Lineup Is Absolutely "Relentless, AAA-Quality" Barks SCEA's Steinberg
Scott Steinberg, VP of product marketing at SCEA wants everyone to know he's pretty proud of Sony's lineup this year
In fact, he cites Killzone 2 as the beginning of "a great lineup [that is] relentless and AAA-quality." If we were Scott we would have used words such as "onslaught" and "annihilating". But let's stay...
Rumour USA's EB Potentially Leaks A Playstation 3 Pricedrop
According to an excerpt on 2old2play
com</a> via an overhead conversation (we know!), March 22nd is the day the PS3 will get its price-cut. We quote:"Last night one of community members was in an EB Games store and an employee mentioned a PS3 price drop occuring Sunday March 22nd just in advance of the Game Developer's Conference (GDC)...
News Edible PSP's Sound Deliciously Edible
Who wouldn't want to eat a super-sour PSP right? "PSP Sours" are an official SCEA licensed product, containing in a PSP steel shaped tin small sweeties in the form of round Triangles, Circles, X's and Squares
Probably deemed to be US-only we'd love to get our hands on one of these. We could put them next to our Wii Remote Pez dispenser.
News Developers Would "Love For The PS3 To Be Free"
In what seems to be a bitter response to all the developers seemingly urging Sony to cut the price of the PS3, SCEA have claimed that they would "love for the PS3 to be free"
Everybody in the development community would love for the PS3 to be free, so they could just sell razor blades, said Peter Dille, senior vice president of marketing for...
News Sony Doesn't Say No To UMD-less PSP
Earlier this week we reported on a rumour that the PSP2 was to have no UMD drive
When MTV approached SCEA's PSP marketing head John Koller with the rumours his response was:"I can't comment either way... I will reiterate that the digital component is very important to us. That's all we can say at this point."</blockquote> E3 2009 +...
