Sony management shuffle dooms PlayStation 4?
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Hirai promotion signals shift to software, analyst claims Sony's move to promote Kaz Hirai, yesterday head of the US wing of the company's Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) division but now President and COO of the global SCE operation, means the consumer electronics giant may never produce a PlayStation 4 console.â¦
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Sony Corp.'s  game unit said on  Thursday it planned to cut jobs in the United States and was  eyeing restructuring steps in Japan as it struggles to keep up  with industry rival Nintendo Co. Ltd. .
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Tacit admission of defeat IFA 07 Sony will next year kill off its Connect digital music download service, Register Hardware has learned. Its Walkman products will instead Windows Media technology, the consumer electronics giant told its customers today.â¦
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The last few days rumors have been circulating that Sony was preparing to announce a new rumble-equipped controller for the PS3. As you may know, the current PS3 controllers don't shake, which we assume was because Sony got slapped with a lawsuit for alle
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Sony can't catch a break, and now its highly anticipated PlayStation 3 is worrying investors. Shares of the company fell Tuesday after a financial analyst expressed concern over the console after it displayed some unstable behavior at the Tokyo Game Show.
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Sony discontinues CDs that limit copying. Also: SBC unveils plan for three-in-one machine & hellip;. Entertainment companies invest in DVD formats & hellip;. and more.
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New kit being airlifted in to US, exec clams Sony's PlayStation 3 production lines are "now running smoothly", a senior company executive has claimed. The consumer electronics giant is "focused on our goal of shipping a million units to retail by the end of the calendar year", he added.â¦
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It was once the crown jewel of the Sony empire. But for years now the Japanese company&#39;s consumer-electronics division -- responsible for everything from TVs to Walkmans to DVD players -- has been a disaster.
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What began as an allegedly leaked internal memo from Best Buy, announcing that the 80GB PlayStation 3 was to be removed from store shelves on January 28, appears to be coming true without official word from either Best Buy or Sony.
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Sign your own death warrant The Big Four record labels want us to think that the sound recording business is a reformed character these days. Recently, we've heard ritualistic self-flagellations from a succession of top executives. There was Ed Bronfman at Warner's, prostrating himself in front of Apple. In a similar vein, Universal's chief Doug Morris admitted UMG had been clueless, and got it all wrong. EMI's new asset-stripping chief Guy Hands issues almost weekly memos telling the company to reform or die. While over at Sony BMG, staff have been told they must, er... blog their way back into music lover's hearts.â¦
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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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The Sony PlayStation will sport a new look come November.
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Sony Corp.&#39;s (6758.T) game unit said on  Thursday it planned to cut jobs in the United States and was  eyeing restructuring steps in Japan as it struggles to keep up  with industry rival Nintendo Co. Ltd. (7974.OS).
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It&#39;s another black eye for Sony. After closing its online music store in August, news comes that the entertainment giant is delaying the opening of its online community for  the PlayStation 3.
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Tycho:  I really must stress to online PlayStation 3 partisans the extent to which they were not at E3.  Those of you playing "the home game" might have seen a trailer or two and come away with the idea that with grace and pride your grey altar stood high over conquered foes.  Ain't the case.
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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.
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TOKYO -- Sony's U.S. video-game unit is cutting jobs to become more competitive, the company said Thursday, as the PlayStation 3 machine struggles against rival offerings from Microsoft and Nintendo.