Sony to Launch Smaller PS2 Console Oct. 26-Report
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Japan&#39;s Sony Corp is expected to unveil a smaller version of its popular PlayStation 2 game console on October 26, The Hollywood Reporter said on its Web site, citing retailers and industry analysts.
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Sony Corp. 6758.T will likely launch  its new PlayStation Portable hand-held game console in North  America and Europe in March, a top executive said on Wednesday.
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With the Nintendo DS now outselling the PSP, Sony said Wednesday that it will release a new model of the handheld console in September that is both thinner and lighter than its predecessor.
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Sony Corp. said on Thursday it sees no  need to change its target to ship 2 million units of its  PlayStation 3 game console worldwide by the end of December and  6 million by the end of next March.
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Cheap model to ditch USB, PS2 compatibility, it's said Sony has poo-poo'd claims that it's about to announce a cut-price PS3 for the UK.â¦
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Japanese electronics maker Sony Corp. could miss its end-March target for the European launch of its new handheld game machine PlayStation Portable (PSP), a company source told Reuters on Friday.
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PLAYSTATION 3 will use the Blu-ray Disc format, while a new, slimmer PlayStation 2 will go on sale internationally early in November.
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Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.  TTWO.O on Monday said it plans to launch a new version of its  hit "Grand Theft Auto" video game franchise for Sony Corp's  6758.T PlayStation Portable (PSP) handheld device, which is  expected to debut in the U.S. in March.
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Details of the chip designed to power Sony's PlayStation 3 console will be released on Monday.
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The European version of PlayStation 3  will play fewer PlayStation 2 video games when it launches on  March 23 compared with models launched earlier in Japan and  America, Sony Corp (6758.T) said on Friday.
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Nintendo's DS handheld and Sony's slimmed-down PlayStation2 will launch in November
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Sony has launched its first handheld games console, the PlayStation Portable (PSP), which it hopes will challenge Nintendo in the portable games market.
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(InfoWorld) - Sony is confident it will hit shipment targets for its recently launched PlayStation 3 game console, its president said Thursday. Prior to theÂ launch of the PS3 in November, Sony said it would ship 2 million consoles this year in Japan and the U.S. and 6 million by the end of its financial year in March 2007. Those targets remain achievable and won't be changed, said Ryoji Chubachi, Sony president and chief executive officer of the electronics business, in a briefing with reporters at its Tokyo headquarters. "With the PS3 the bottleneck has been availability of blue lasers but now production of those has been launched in volume," he said. "We did take time preparing ourselves but as of today we have reached our target production rate. Based on projections for this year we will reach [the PS3 shipment targets]." The PlayStation 3 was launched in Japan on Nov. 11 and in North America, Hong Kong and Taiwan on Nov. 17. Around 81,639 PlayStation 3 consoles were sold over the launch weekend in Japan, according to market data from Media Create. Demand for the console vastly outstripped supply but sales have dropped each week since the launch due to scarcity, according to the figures. Media Create estimates 42,099 units were sold in the first full week of sales and then 32,622 units in the week from Nov. 20 to Nov. 27. For the following week, the latest for which data is available, sales were lower still at 31,436 units, the company estimated. The PlayStation 3 had been due to launch in Europe in November but the laser shortage meant Sony postponed the European launch until March 2007. That date remains unchanged, said Chubachi. The executive also said that Sony will keep looking at ways of reducing the manufacturing cost of the console so that it can turn a profit on the PS3 as quickly as possible. Traditionally, game console makers have sold their machines at cost or a loss and then relied on game software sales to make a profit. In the case of the PS3, production costs are high and losses run at between $240 and $305 per console sold, according to a parts breakdown by iSuppli Corp. One of the reasons the PS3 is relatively expensive is the Cell processor that sits at its heart.Â Developed by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM, the chip is one of the most powerful yet developed and last year Sony created a team to look at how to use the chip in applications other than gaming. Chubachi said the team remains focused on this task but he declined to detail when the Cell might find its way into a television or other consumer electronics product.
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TOKYO, Oct 27, 2004 (Kyodo via COMTEX) -- Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. said Wednesday it will release its new handheld video game system PlayStation Portable on Dec. 12 for the Japanese market.
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Sony Corp. will launch  a slimmer model of its PlayStation Portable handheld game  player in September, the company said on Wednesday, in its  latest attempt to ignite demand for its game hardware and  compete better with Nintendo Co. Ltd.
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Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) unveiled a slimmer and more lightweight version of its PS2 game console in Taipei last Friday, and the company will begin shipping the product in Taiwan on November 3. The
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Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. said Wednesday it will release its PlayStation Portable game console in Japan on Dec. 12 at a price of 20,790 yen, surprising many who had expected it to cost far more.