Nintendo Wii Continues To Outsell PS3…By A Lot

If Sony isn’t dropping Playstation 3 prices by $100 like the rumors currently say, they really should. According to BBC, the Nintendo Wii is outselling the PS3 by a ’six to one’ margin. Actually, it’s more like a 6.5 to 1 margin, 270,974 Wiis compared to 41,628 PS3s in June. In comparison, [...]

RUMOR: PS3 price cut forthcoming?

Update: Coming in from GameDaily is confirmation from “one of the world’s biggest retailers” that the price cut is indeed true. w00t!
Consider this a total rumor right now, but folks on the DVD Talk Forum have come up with what looks to be next week’s advertising for Circuit City. In it, the PS3 receives the [...]

Buy a Blu-Ray player, get 5 free movies

To give sluggish summertime sales a kick in the ass, the Blu-Ray Disc Association is offering a 2 month promotion for people buying their first Blu-Ray player.
If you buy any Blu-Ray player (including a PS3) you will be able to select any 5 movies from a list of about 20. We’re not talking about [...]

PSP 3.50 firmware allows full CPU speed

The recent 3.50 firmware update added some cool streaming features to the PSP, but Shacknews tells us of a hidden feature of the firmware; for the first time, developers can run the PSP’s CPU at full speed.
Until now, the PSP would only clock up to 266 MHz for games, presumably to keep battery life [...]

Is the Sony Turnaround Coming?

So we’ve documented pretty well here at HCW how Nintendo is kicking Sony’s behind. And the results are showing through in the markets. Nintendo has just passed Panasonic-maker Matsushita, and is fast closing in on Sony, with Nintendo having a market cap of 6.30 trillion yen, while Sony’s is 6.64 trillion yen.
We [...]

Sony Pisses Off The Church Of England

As if they didn’t have enough problems with financial losses, now Sony has to contend with the Church of England. I don’t know about you but I never want to piss off an organization with God in their corner.
The dispute is over the popular (and by popular, I mean probably the best of the [...]

PS3 can now play Blu-Ray movies at 720p, thanks to 1.8 (it’s official)

Naturally, this 1.8 system update just keeps getting better and better. We told you about the 1.8 features that everyone knows about, we told you about the feature that nobody expected. We told you about some wacky workarounds that the 1.8 update introduces, allowing streaming media from your PC to your PSP.
We were getting [...]