We'd been hearing that Sony's new 40GB PS3 featured a revised design with a 65nm Cell processor and improved cooling, but sadly it looks like those reports were in error -- a Sony spokesperson has told Heise Online that the 40GB model continues to use 90mn processors
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Kotaku has the Sony press release online about the 40GB. The 40 GB will be bundled with Spiderman 3 movie and the SKU get also a 399$ in Canada.
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Record-breaking 165,000 PS3s sold at UK launch
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In a conference carried through in Washington this week, Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) - a trade association that promotes the growth in the electronic industry for consumers - of Fame announced 12 new names in its "CE Hall", honor given to the leaders whose contribution was significant for the electronic industry for consumers, between them Ken Kutaragi.
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Hackers have discovered a way to run retail PS3 games off the PS3's internal HDD and off external USB HDDs. Rampant piracy has always cast its dark shadow over the PSP ... will the PS3 be next? Let's hope not.
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Kaz Hirai, chief executive of Sony’s PlayStation games console business, has set an ambitious target of reaching nearly 150m in sales for its slow-starting PlayStation 3 console. Sony told those attending the video game industry’s E3 convention last week that sales of its original PlayStation, launched in 1994, had reached 102m units and the PlayStation 2 console had now passed 140m worldwide in its ninth year on sale.
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Sony’s senior VP of marketing and the PlayStation Network, Peter Dille, says the platform holder intends to launch a TV and movie service for PS3 that will “break through the overwhelming clutter of digital media”.
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This shouldn't come as much of a shock, but Sony is discontinuing the Sixaxis in light of the DualShock 3's arrival. A Sony rep says that you can likely expect them to all be gone by summertime. The practical upshot is that if your hands have become so atrophied from a lack of physical activity that you can no longer support the DualShock's heft, you may want to stock up on featherweight Sixaxises as they tumble in price.
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ars technica's mole talks about a possible 120gb-160gb hard drive upgrade with the inclusion of the DualShock3 controller.
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An anonymous Best Buy employee has sent us a scan of an internal letter: "The 80GB version of the PS3 is going closeout and won't be replaced at this time," it reads. "It will come off the planogram on Jan. 28. The 60GB version should already be gone from stores. Only the 40GB version of PS3 will be sold in Best Buy stores at this time."
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