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Sony Plans New Online Service In 2010

Sony has plans to launch a new online service next year that will allow users to download music and movies to their televisions. "I'd like it to get off the ground as quickly as possible," said Kazuo Hirai, executive vice president of Sony and head of its Networked Products & Service Group, in an interview at the company's Tokyo headquarters. "Earlier in the year is more preferable."

U.S. Video Game Sales Hit $1.1 Billion

Market research firm NPD is reporting that U.S. sales of video game hardware and software increased 73 percent in October. Total sales reached $1.1 billion, compared with $643 million a year earlier. The Nintendo Wii console moved back into the top spot as the best selling console. Nintendo sold 519,000 Wiis, Microsoft sold 366,000 Xbox 360 consoles and Sony sold 121,000 of its PlayStation 3 consoles.

British Teen Goofs: Tells Cops About eBay Money

Okay first, let's establish two things as public service announcements: Don't pay $200 for a PlayStation 2; if you stumble over almost 100 grand, don't tell anybody about it, especially not the government.

Despite Insensitivity, PS3 Amazon Sales Soar

Recent Sony news presents an interesting case study in the difference between advertising and marketing. For just as the company was marginalizing yet another group of people and offending the politically correct, sales of PlayStation 3 soar upon price cuts.

PlayStation Pornable Er Portable

Sony's getting a little steamed as certain software manufacturers steam up the screen of their PSP gaming console with adult content. Sony finds the practice undesirable. I just hope they don't offer their 1998 Godzilla remake, talk about obscene.

IBM Busts Open The Cell

The high-profile heart of the forthcoming PlayStation 3 will have key details disclosed in Barcelona today.

Xbox, PlayStation Prices Like a Tax on Fun

Upgrading to a next generation game console is looking to be an expensive endeavor, working not unlike a tax on the non-industrious. With Microsoft leveraging a supply and demand advantage for the holiday season and Sony just trying to pay for its state-of-the-art-ness, Nintendo's Revolution may turn out to be a cost-effective compromise.

Xbox Will Remain In PlayStation Shadow

The Xbox buzz has sleepily settled around Microsoft's ankles, laying in limp disillusionment; as executives leer in the direction of King Sony, they can't help but scorn the fair-weather Johnsons that left them there, skulking, controller in hand.

Sony PlayStation 3 Ready To Rock

The next-generation gaming console from market leader Sony has been scheduled for a spring 2006 release.

Sony PlayStation Says, Bring It On, Microsoft!

Though Jupiter Research predicted that Xbox 360 would outsell Sony's PlayStation 3, they may have been unaware of just how cool Sony's console was going to be.