Sony to stop some PS3 shipments to Japan
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Sony Corp (6758.T) said on Thursday it  would stop shipments of PlayStation 3 models with 20- and  60-gigabyte (GB) hard disk drives in Japan this month, focusing  instead on the 40-GB model.
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CHIBA, Japan  - Sony Corp  said on  Thursday it would postpone the launch of the "Home" virtual  community service for its PlayStation 3 game console to early  next year, the latest setback in its videogame battle with  Microsoft Corp  and Nintendo Co Ltd .
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PlayStation Portable's long-awaited peripherals will ship in December in Japan.
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Sony Corp.  said on Friday it  will eliminate a key microchip from the European version of its  PlayStation 3 (PS3) game console, reducing production costs as  well as its compatibility with PS2 games.
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Over the holiday quarter, Sony shipped 71.7% fewer PlayStation Portable units and 23.3% fewer PlayStation 2 consoles worldwide than during the 2005 holiday season, while at the same time it was ramping up PlayStation 3 shipments to North America, Japan, and Asia.
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Sony Corp. (6758.T) plans to  phase out the cut-priced $499 model of its PlayStation 3 video  game machine, leaving only a higher capacity $599 model for  sale in the United States, the company said on Monday.
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PlayStation Portable, produced by Sony Computer Entertainment, hit Japanese store shelves Sunday and were reportedly flying off the shelves.
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Sony Corp. 6758.T said on Wednesday   that it now expects to ship 2 million units of its PlayStation   3 (PS3) video game console by the end of this year, half its   original target of 4 million units.
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Sony Corp.  plans to lower the production cost of its PlayStation 3 (PS3) game consoles by using less expensive chips, aiming to turn the operations profitable between September and next March, the Nikkei business daily reported on Friday.
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Sony Corp. (6758.T) will cut back on  future chip spending and may not produce advanced chips used in  its PlayStation 3 (PS3) in-house, a senior executive said on  Tuesday, in a move aimed at driving the semiconductor unit's  nascent earnings recovery.
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The release of Sony's PlayStation 3 will be delayed in Europe until March because of problems with producing a key component, the executive in charge of the project said Wednesday. The much-awaited update to the popular game console will go on sale in November in the United States and Japan as planned, but fewer units will be available for the launch dates.
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The chip in Sony's initial PS3 versions that enables backward compatibility with older PlayStation games, called the "Emotion Engine," will be eliminated from the structure of new 80GB units, which go on sale in August.
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Japan's Toshiba Corp  will  announce plans to cease production and sales of HD DVD players  on Tuesday, the Nikkei business daily said.
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'Within our reach' to sell 6m by April 2007, prez states Sony's plan to ship 2m PlayStation 3 consoles worldwide by the end of the year and a further 4m PS3s by the end of March 2007 is still "within our reach", company President Ryoji Chubachi told reporters this week.â¦
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Sony Computer Entertainment plans to cut jobs in the U.S. and may restructure Japan operations.
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Sony's long-awaited PlayStation 3 console will not be available in Europe until March, the company admits.
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Sony Corp. (6758.T) expects a sharp  increase in the number of games released for the PlayStation 3  this business year, in a move that should help the game  console&#39;s slumping sales, the Nikkei business daily quoted the  head of Sony&#39;s game division as saying in an interview.