Sony's PlayStation 3 had a reasonably good week this Black Friday weekend, with the Japanese company announcing that 525,000 consoles were sold this holiday period across the United States.
It may be something of an ageing console, and the hardware packed within is most certainly of yesteryear, but Sony's PlayStation 3 console has just reached the impressive milestone of 70 million sold worldwide. Having launched now six years ago back in November of 2006, the PlayStation 3 has competed fiercely with Microsoft's Xbox 360 console, and although the Redmond company's Kinect is subject of much press coverage, the Move motion controller for the PS3 has shifted 15 million in just two years - which is arguably the more impressive feat.
Quite a few months ago, we learned Google could be plotting to release a bunch of Nexus branded devices this fall (as many as five), and the way rumors and speculation have been flying around with regards to a number of would-be Nexus OEMs, that forecast is looking more and more on the money. Sony is the latest company to join the rumor mill, and its supposed "Nexus X" device has now allegedly been spotted in the wild.
If you happen to be in the United Kingdom and are looking for a new smartphone deal and tariff, then it might be worth considering the O2 network as they have officially made the James Bond-branded Sony Xperia T smartphone available for customers. It's been known for a while that the network would be offering a 007 Xperia T experience to customers, but we just weren't sure when it would start appearing on the company's online store, but what they are calling "The Bond Phone" is now available.
Sony is renowned for delivering a decent television, even if the price is often in excess of what the average consumer can / will pay. The company is set to bring forth an 80-inch XBR LED TV with 4K resolution, and from then on will begin to push 4K into the market, sans 3DTV a couple of years back.
Sony once dominated the gaming market with an iron fist, but has lost its way somewhat, and with the PS Vita not managing to be the rousing success the company will have hoped, maybe cross-platform PlayStation Mobile service will fare better.
No, the article title isn't a typo; I'm not referring to news about the next-generation PlayStation console. Rather, it appears that a revision may be in the works for the existing PS3. Essentially, the FCC filing pertains to a WLAN antenna for the CECH-4001x model of the PS3. While a WLAN antenna certainly sounds boring, the interesting tidbit that we can take away from this is that the current PS3s are in the CECH-2500 through 3000 series. On top of this, a diagram included in the filing to depict where the FCC sticker will be placed appears to vaguely show the chassis of the device. It's more rectangular than the existing model, with an off-center area that acts as a stand for the console.
Beginning in June and running through September, many of the biggest names in tech run special "back to school" promotions in order to garner a good reputation among college students aid them on their usually modest budgets.
The latest news on the next PlayStation from Sony, the PS4, is that the earlier suggestion of a cloud-only device, with no physical media, has now been decided against with the firm deciding that the failed launch of the PSP Go shows that physical media isn't dead just yet.
Sony has announced today that it plans to partner with Activison to introduce yet another gaming bundle to the market, this time based off of the highly popular - practically a household name - first-person shooter, Modern Warfare 3. The bundle will include a 320GB PS3, and of course, a copy of MW3 for the decent cost of $299.
