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Year-over-year PS3 sales drop bad news for Sony
Year-over-year PS3 sales drop bad news for Sony
The NPD sales data for January has been released, and video game sales in the US remain strong. Overall, sales saw a thirteen percent jump from last year, proving that the gaming industry is one of the rare strong points in the US economy... even if individual developers are ...
Rumor: The Sony switch to Intel's Larrabee chip
news.cnet.com — Here's the silicon scuttlebutt of the weekend, if not the week: Sony will use Intel's Larrabee graphics... chip in its upcoming PlayStation 4. (Let's not forget the other tantalizing piece of speculation this week: the Nvidia-powered Microsoft ... (more) Rumor: The Sony switch to Intel's Larrabee chip
Intel is shooting for PlayStation 4, but has it scored?
arstechnica.com — I've known for a while, and even mentioned on Ars , that Intel has a team that's... actively courting the Sony PlayStation 4 contract, and Intel VP Pat Gelsinger affirmed to me in an interview that the company would love to be in a ... (more) Intel is shooting for PlayStation 4, but has it scored?
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Sony PS3 sales down sharply
DV Hardware — A new report from NPD illustrates the PlayStation 3 console from Sony isn't doing too well in the US. ShackNews compared the unit shipments from January 2009 with those from a year ago and spotted sales were down from 269,000 units to 203,200 units. In the same period, Nintendo managed to increase shipments of its Wii from 274,000 to 679,200, while the Xbox 360 from Microsoft increased its shipments from 230,000 units to 309,000 units. ...

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