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Sony has revealed huge like-for-like rises in PS3 hardware and software in its Q1 financials. In terms of like-for-like sales, the platform holder’s flagship console sold double the amount it did last Q1 – up to 1.56m from 0.70m the previous year. PlayStation 3 software also fared rather well – …

Sony is to launch a new slimmed-down version of PS2 in Europe in October – as predicted by MCV back last year. According to The Economic Times, the new model will have a built-in AC power adapter and will launch simultaneously in India and Europe. However, the price of the …

Around 50 million games were sold for Nintendo’s Wii during its first 18 months on the market, according to the platform holder. The figure would set a new record for software sales, beating the previous record holder, PS2, into second – and, according to Nintendo, doesn’t include copies of Wii …

Sony expects to sell 10 million PS3 units in the next financial year. That’sonly slightly up from up from the 9.24 million the firm this morning announced it had shifted for the 12 months ending March 31st, 2008. PSP hardware sales – which led the way for the PlayStation family …

Global PS2 sales may have declined by over a million units in Sony’s last fiscal year , but the console was still the firm’s leading light in the 12 month period – selling over four million units more than successor PS3. Handheld PSP outsold the pair, clocking up 13.9 million …

Sony’s PlayStation division logged an operating loss of 124.5 billion Japanese Yen ($1.18bn), shrinking from the 232.3 billion ($2.2bn) loss reported a year earlier. The performance helped spur the Sony Corporation to an impressive results – with net income alomst tripling year-on-year to 369.4 billion Yen ($3.76bn). The firm’s PlayStation …

Electronic Arts has revealed that its software took more revenue from PS2 than any other home console during its FY 2007-2008 – helping the firm take more than $3 billion in annual sales. The ageing system provided $601 million in the 12 months to March 31st, 2008. Second best performing …

Thought PlayStation 2 hardware sales were going to quietly disappear after the revenue frenzy of Christmas? Think again – Sony is preparing to introduce a new, cut-price model of the console in early 2008. MCV can exclusively reveal that this ‘compact’ PS2 will hit the US at just $99 in …

Jeetil Patel, analyst for Deutsche Bank, has claimed that the most successful console the world has ever seen, the PS2, could be finally approaching the end of its days following the publication of NPD’s September sales figures for the US. GameDaily quotes Patel as saying: PlayStation 2 software sales fell …

Leading industry figures have called on Sony to drop the suggested retail price of PS2 as the console nears the final stages of its hugely successful lifecycle. The system, which burst onto the market seven years ago, currently holds a suggested retail price point of around 95.But publisher bosses have …