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Sony claims PS3 pricing leak 'incorrect'Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has claimed reports that its senior staffers let slip how much the company plans to charge for the PlayStation 3 when the console ships next November are "incorrect". PS3 priced at €499-€599 - Sony execLucent sues Microsoft in Xbox 360 patent clashNo worldwide Revolution launch?Games Digest A slew of new revelations about Nintendo's next console, the Revolution, have not so much set the games world alight as poured cold water over it. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata last week said: "We don't think it's necessary to do the simultaneous worldwide launch simply because others are doing this." Nintendo Revolution chip specs leakSony ends PSOne productionSony says PS3 will be region-freeSony has confirmed that the PlayStation 3 will not impose a region-coding scheme on games. That the consumer electronics giant was considering such a move was first signalled in November 2005, but it was made official policy this week by the company's head of games development, Phil Harrison. Wireless stereo coming to PSPTransmeta confirms Microsoft partnershipMicrosoft ups XBox 360 shipmentsMicrosoft is doubling or tripling the number of XBoxes it will send out to retailers every week. It has added a third manufacturer - Celestica - and has got a solid supply of components. Computer games push up UK inflation rateThe UK's Office of National Statistics (ONS) has placed Apple's iPod and the some of the company's iTunes Music Store downloads in the standard shopping basket the organisation uses to monitor the cost of living in Britain. Handheld Xbox: third time lucky for MS iPod killer scheme?Comment World+Dog is this week feverishly reporting on rumours that Microsoft is hard at work on an iPod killer. Or it may be a PlayStation Portable killer. Or perhaps a PMC killer. No, wait a moment, PMC - aka Portable Media Center - was Microsoft's last attempt at an iPod killer, and just look at what that did to restrict Apple's revenue growth... PSP 'base pack' to ship Wednesday for £149.99Sony has revealed it will demand punters pay a penny under £150 for the basic PlayStation Portable package when it launches here on 22 March. Announced last week, the box contains just a PSP and a mains adaptor, unlike the bundle-heavy Value Pack that launched in September 2005. More PS3 details emergeGames Digest Sony Computer Entertainment's president, Ken Kutaragi, announced a raft of new details about the PS3, PSP and PNP at a press conference in Tokyo last week. The big announcement, that the PS3 will launch in mid-November in Japan, the US and Europe simultaneously, has already been covered by Reg Hardware. But more interesting is the emerging picture of how Sony sees the PS3 squaring up against the Xbox 360, Nintendo's Revolution and the home PC in the living room. Net video confirms Xbox 360 hackBus driver sacked for playing PSPA bus driver has been sacked after passengers complained he was driving the bus while playing a portable games machine. Sony to bring PSP Base Pack to Europe, USSony states hard drive 'required' for PS3Sony delays PlayStation 3Ex-Gizmondo team form ads-for-airtime phone firm |
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