Archive for July, 2009

Intel discontinuing Z-series Atoms?

Friday, July 31st, 2009
It's sourced from Digitimes , so don't get too worked up, but word on the street is that Intel's no longer accepting orders for Z-series Atom chips. If you'll remember Intel's initial distinctions, the Z-series was for MIDs and the familiar N-series was for netbooks, but since the Z-series didn't carry the same max hardware restrictions as the N-series, it became popular in a whole host of devices that didn't fit the traditional mold, like the Sony VAIO P and the ASUS Eee PC T91 . Of course,

Sony Talks More About Playstation Motion Control [Gaming]

Friday, July 31st, 2009
PC World 's Game On got an exclusive interview with Richard Marks, one of the key players on Sony's Playstation Motion Control team, and got him to talk a bit about what the future holds for their motion gaming control scheme. Aside from plenty of marketing/corporate speak, Game On did manage to get a few interest points out of marks. For starters, Playstation Motion Control is not the final name for the control scheme. Marks himself referred to it as a "temporary mouthful" and we can expect a n

Red and Blue color PS3 controllers coming to USA in October 2009

Friday, July 31st, 2009
Sony has announced Red and Blue colored DualShock 3 PS3 controllers which will be released this October 2009 in America. The patriatic colors are being called “Deep Red” and “Metallic Blue”. Sony hasn’t announced a price for the controllers but you can expect that they will be priced at $55 just like the other controllers. Which is way too high for a controller if you ask me . . . . Now Sony just needs to release a “Patriotic White” colored PS3 controller to complete the trifecta! The White

PS3 manufacturing costs down 70 percent? Strange, it doesn’t feel that way

Friday, July 31st, 2009
We understand that Sony has a long way to go in making up the losses it's incurred by selling the PS3 at a loss -- even if it was commanding the highest price in the industry the whole while -- but if this latest word on manufacturing costs is correct, we'd say Sony has some room to get the console under that dastardly $400 mark. During an overseas call with investors over Sony's Q1 financials, Nobuyuki Oneda, Sony's CFO and Executive VP, apparently stated that manufacturing costs for the PS3 ar

Sega-Sammy: Have VT2009 and The Conduit sale figures

Friday, July 31st, 2009
We already know what the NPD said , but what about Sega? Sega have posted sales figures for both Virtua Tennis 2009 and The Conduit on their Sega-Sammy holding site . The sale figures don’t offer data for July, it ends in June sadly. Sega sold 790,000 copies of Virtua Tennis 2009 across four plateforms. This includes Nintendo Wii, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and Windows PC. The number is for both Europe and America. Sega says that The Conduit sold 150,000 copies for the month of Jun