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PS3's breaks the 1 million mark in PAL territories

By Gavin Mannion
June 8, 2007 - 19 years ago

David Reeves the CEO of Sony Europe has announced that Sony have managed to sell over a million units now in PAL territories… This has taken them 9 1/2 weeks which is faster than the PS2 or PS1 and is not a bad movie either 🙂 The UK has contributed 25% of that total and the other 106 territories have contributed the …

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BT Games Forza 2 Competition

By Gavin Mannion
June 8, 2007 - 19 years ago

  I received this email this morning and thought I would just post it as is… awesome competition FORZA MOTORSPORT 2 TIME TRIAL TOURNAMENT YOU ARE HEREBY CHALLENGED TO TEST YOUR METTLE, BURN SOME SERIOUS RUBBER, PROVE YOUR WORTH OR JUST EAT DUST!! WE BELIEVE PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT: OPTIONAL PRACTICE SESSIONS WILL BE RUN DAILY FROM 12H00 12 JUNE 2007 …

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History points to a Xbox 360 price cut

By Gavin Mannion
June 7, 2007 - 19 years ago

While the gaming world is screaming for a PS3 price cut it seams that the Xbox 360 is about to break a record… and it’s not a good one. If the 360 passes July without a price cut it will be the first console to last this long without cutting it’s price. I for one don’t expect a price cut …

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Will the PS3's sales ever stop dropping?

By Gavin Mannion
June 7, 2007 - 19 years ago

Looking at the worldwide sales of all the platforms one things becomes blatantly apparent.. The PS3 is struggling…. From a high of over 500,000 units shipped in one week on the PAL launch week it has now dropped to 44k a week… Two things are worrying about this. Firstly that is by far the lowest sales of all the consoles.. The Wii is selling 235k …

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Major PS3 Announcement coming 11th of June

By Gavin Mannion
June 6, 2007 - 19 years ago

There are rumours of a major PS3 announcement that will change the fortunes of Sony coming on the 11th of June.. Well after the ridiculous Pac Man announcement from Microsoft I wouldn’t hold your breath. It doesn’t seem like a price cut either so what could it be? Solitaire?  Link to Video Gamers of America

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Sony Offers Shops Prizes For Pushing PS3 Units

By Gavin Mannion
June 6, 2007 - 19 years ago

Now I have no idea how legal this would, be but I am pretty sure Microsoft and Nintendo are busy finding out, but it seems like Sony is offering extra incentives to Gamestop staff to push the PS3. For the top store in a region the manager is being given 30,000 reward points (yeah we don’t know what they are) and if …

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No Final Fantasy for Xbox 360 … period

By Gavin Mannion
June 6, 2007 - 19 years ago

Square Enix has come out and detroyed the hopes and dreams of all the Xbox 360 owners out there. Okay maybe just the Xbox 360 owners out there who wanted this game… Okay just Bob in the corner then. Anyway back to the point, they have clearly stated that there is nothing planned for the Xbox 360 at all. Nothing, …

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Forza Motorsport 2 launched in South Africa

By Gavin Mannion
June 6, 2007 - 19 years ago

Craig Nicholson is one lucky bugger… He was personally invited along with Werner (www.xbox-360.co.za) and Devon (www.thexboxlounge.co.za) to the local launch of Forza 2 at the Kyalami race track. It sounds like they had an awesome time, yeah I’m actually just to jealous to write much about it. Follow the link to read about all the details… 🙁 PS: If …

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360's Eternal Sonata briefly tops Japanese charts

By Gavin Mannion
June 6, 2007 - 19 years ago

  It seems like the 360 is slowly slowly making itself known in Japan. After the relative success of Blue Dragon and Gears of War Microsoft have now had another titles hit number 1 in the land of the rising sun. Granted it only stayed at number 1 for a day but it’s progress…. Link to 360’s Eternal Sonata briefly …

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Wii sales up again, Xbox 360, PS3 down at Amazon

By Gavin Mannion
June 6, 2007 - 19 years ago

Will anything ever stop the Wii? The latest sales results from Amazon.com are out and once again the Wii is trouncing everything else. While the Xbox 360 (19th) and PS3 (27th) sold less this week the Wii once again increased sales and is now 5th in the computer and video games department. So what is is that is outselling everything? The Wii nunchuck at …

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Christmas 2007 to change gaming forever

By Gavin Mannion
June 6, 2007 - 19 years ago

Gameplayer.com has a very nice article about how this Christmas is going to be completely different for gamers than any other… This will be the first Christmas with 3 consoles on the market without a clear winner, not to mention the huge amount of new IP’s which are coming out this year. Obviously we expect some of the big names to clean …

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New Classics coming in June

By Gavin Mannion
June 5, 2007 - 19 years ago

Well it looks like Kalahari.net has let the cat out of the bag on which games are turning into classics in June 2007… If you head on over and check on their Pre-Order list you will see Smackdown vs Raw (Classic) and Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (Classic) available for pre-order. Lego will cost a knock down price …

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