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Will Sony Unveil the PlayStation 4 this Month?
Friday, February 1, 2013 - 2:28pm | 516Read More...Less than two weeks ago, Sony (NYSE: SNE) CEO Kazuo Hirai publicly denied rumors that the company would announce PlayStation 4 this quarter. "Why go first, when your competitors can look at your specifications and come up with something better?" he questioned. Hirai's comments were thought to...
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GameStop Denies Rumor It Will End Midnight Launches
Monday, November 19, 2012 - 3:20pm | 771Read More...Midnight launches might be a thing of the past for GameStop (NYSE: GME). A person familiar with the video game retailer told Benzinga that it might cut back or end its midnight game and console launches in 2013. A company spokesperson adamantly denied the claim. GameStop recently promoted the...
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Sony Plans to Mimic Apple's Business Model
Thursday, August 30, 2012 - 1:47pm | 470Read More...Sony (NYSE: SNE) wants to sell consumers the most expensive products possible, including high-end tablets and an 84-inch 4K television that is unlikely to retail for less than five figures. It might sound like overkill, but this is actually the company's strategy to become more like its California...
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Exclusive: New Android-Based Handheld Gaming Device Unveiled to Take on Apple, Sony and Nintendo
Tuesday, August 28, 2012 - 3:57pm | 1305Read More...PlayMG, a new startup formed less than 60 days ago, has unveiled a brand-new, Android-powered handheld gaming device that is scheduled for release this November. Retailing for $169.00, the MG (which stands for "More Games") will launch with a lower MSRP than Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPod Touch, Sony...
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Is Gaikai Acquisition Proof that Sony is Dumping PlayStation?
Monday, July 2, 2012 - 2:05pm | 787Read More...Sony (NYSE: SNE) surprised the world this morning when it announced that it would pay $380 million to acquire Gaikai. The company plans to use Gaikai's technology to build its own cloud gaming service. This announcement is a big win for the likes of Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM...
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Sony to Unveil Wii U Killer at E3 2012?
Friday, June 1, 2012 - 9:57am | 1015Read More...Sony has said that it won't unveil PlayStation 4 at E3. But that doesn't mean it isn't ready to compete against Nintendo's next console, Wii U. In fact, the company has technically already built a Wii U competitor in the form of a home console, PlayStation 3, and a portable gaming device, PS Vita...
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New iPad to Put Sony Out of Business
Thursday, March 8, 2012 - 11:19am | 1190Read More...Will the new iPad spell the end for Sony and the PlayStation brand? That depends on who you talk to. Not surprisingly, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) enthusiasts are already calling the new iPad the greatest portable game system ever created – even though it's not a game system, doesn't contain any buttons...
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Can Sony Save PS Vita, Persevere With PlayStation 4?
Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 8:54am | 793Read More...PS Vita made its North American debut this week and nobody cares. The device is getting a lot of media attention as an expensive (some would say overpriced) machine that is attempting to compete against the iPhone and the iPod Touch. Of course, PS Vita isn't a phone, and it's a bit too expensive...
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Five Reasons PS Vita Will Flop
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 4:47pm | 1574Read More...Sony has designed a beautiful handheld. It's too bad no one is going to play it. Ten years ago, I would have played it. In fact, I'd be playing with a PlayStation Vita right now. I wouldn't have cared about all of the red flags that warned me not to buy it. I would have spent $250 on a Wi-Fi model...
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PlayStation 4 to be Cancelled?
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - 9:30am | 1404Read More...As Sony denies the unveiling of its next game console, consumers are faced with the grim reality that one might not actually exist. Two weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal reported that Sony (NYSE: SNE) does not have any plans to unveil a new game console at this year's Electronic Entertainment...
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Five Predictions for 2012
Monday, December 5, 2011 - 11:02am | 1667Read More...What can we expect from Apple, Zynga, and insider trading reform in the coming year? It's almost hard to believe that we are less than 30 days away from 2012. But after the confetti has settled and people drag their drunken bodies back to their homes and apartments, we will be faced with another...
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This Week in Tech Stupidity: Nintendo Drops Backwards Compatibility in Wii after PSP Drops Wi-Fi
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 - 8:28am | 404Read More...Has every publisher in the game industry lost their minds? Yesterday Benzinga learned that Sony (NYSE: SNE) will release a new version of the old PSP in Europe for 99 euro. It has since come to our attention that the device may lack Wi-Fi support, which is about the dumbest move Sony could have...
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Sony's Secret Strategy: Milk the Old, Kill the New
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 - 2:26pm | 321Read More...It looks like Sony had a very specific reason for holding the PS Vita until 2012. And that reason is: another rehash of the original PlayStation Portable is headed to retailers. The news came just moments ago during Sony's (NYSE: SNE) live press conference at Gamescom, Europe's biggest video game...
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Sony's "Oh, Crap!" Moment: Nobody Wants a PS Vita
Monday, August 15, 2011 - 6:15pm | 500Read More...And all this time I thought that a delay was the worst thing that could happen to Sony's (NYSE: SNE) next-gen handheld. It turns out that there was something far worse brewing: the simple fact that people don't care about PS Vita. At all! That's according to Lyle Hall and Matthew Seymour at Heavy...
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Tech Stocks Tank on Economic Crisis, S&P Downgrade
Monday, August 8, 2011 - 3:37pm | 831Read More...I'll bet Facebook and Zynga are glad they haven't gone public yet. LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) is among the many tech companies taking significant losses following today's unparalleled crisis. As of this writing, the popular social networking has been hit by an 18% decline. Granted, LinkedIn was...
