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P L A Y S T A T I O N 3
- Sony has officially announced the 40GB PlayStation 3 will appear in Europe on October 10, 2007 for £299. The 40GB model will have two USB 2.0 ports, no multi-memory card slots and no backward compatibility to PS2 games, but PSone compatiblity remains in the system.
- Sony will discontinue PS3 Starter Pack in Europe and replace with PS3 Value Pack for £349, which includes a 60GB PS3, backward compatibility to PS2, one Sixaxis controller and two games.
- Official PlayStation Magazine reported that the Sony ICO team is working on a sequel game for PS3, it is uncertain whether it refers to ICO or Shadow of Colossus.
- Epic Games has pushed back the release date of Unreal Tournament 3 for PS3 to Q1 2008, and due to the delay the PS3 version will incorporate more levels as on the PC version.
M U L T I
- Bungie announced the company has officially splited from Microsoft and become and independent developer. Microsoft will continue to hold a minority stake in the new Bungie LLC.
- Here are the latest Japanese console hardware sales for the week of Sept 24 - 30, 2007:
- PSP - 102,809 [1,861,320]
- NDS Lite - 72,895 [5,487,649]
- Wii - 24,143 [2,694,454]
- PlayStation 3 - 13,105 [712,108]
- PlayStation 2 - 12,980 [596,915]
- Xbox 360 - 5,215 [150,789]
- GB Micro - 229 [26,485]
- GameCube - 73 [9,785]
- GBA SP - 49 [20,723]
- GBA - 41 [968]
- NDS - 30 [2,816]
- Here are the latest Japanese console software sales for the week of Sept 24 - 30, 2007:
- Halo 3 (Xbox 360, Microsoft) - 58,672
- Pokemon Fushigi no Dungeon: Toki no Tankentai (NDS, Nintendo) - 55,438 [441,000]
- Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (PSP, Square Enix) - 54,240 [649,000]
- Tamagotchi no Puchi Puchi Omisecchi: Mina San Kyu (NDS, Bandai Namco) - 53,915
- Pokemon Fushigi no Dungeon: Yami no Tankentai (NDS, Nintendo) - 45,743 [389,000]
- Bleach: Blade Battlers 2nd (PS2, Sony) - 31,328
- KanKen DS 2 + Jouyou Kanji Jiten (NDS, Rocket Co.) - 28,301
- Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters GX: Tag Force 2 (PSP, Konami) - 28,189
- The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (PS3, Spike) - 26,563
- Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops+ (PSP, Konami) - 25,348 [119,000]
- The Legend of Heroes: Sora no Kiseki FC (PSP, Falcom)
- Phantasy Star Universe: Ambition of the Illuminus (PS2, Sega)
- Pachislot Series Vol 11: CR Neon Geneses Evangelion (PS2, D3 Pub)
- Mario Party 8 (Wii, Nintendo)
- Mario Striker Charged (Wii, Nintendo)
- English Inspection DS (NDS, Rocket Co.)
- Gnabaru watashi no Kakei Diary (NDS, Nintendo)
- Mario Kart DS (NDS, Nintendo)
- New Super Mario Bros. (NDS, Nintendo)
- Wii Sports (Wii, Nintendo)
- Capcom president Haruhiro Tsujimoto announced the company will strengthen development on PlayStation 3 and they are aware the PS2 market remain further attractive. Capcom wants to concentrate on multi-platform development strategy for PS3 and Xbox 360.
- Marvelous Entertainment president Yasuhiro Wada mentioned that the next Harvest Moon title will have online functions, 2 to 8 players can visit the same city in the game. The platform is undecided yet.
- Midway announced they have shipped 1.5 million copies of Straglehold for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.
W i i
- Nintendo announced they received 700,000 pre-orders of the Wii action game Super Mario Galaxy in Japan, the game will be available in Japan on November 1, 2007.
X B O X 3 6 0
- Microsoft announced the first week sales of Halo 3 has passed US$300 millions, and the sales of Xbox 360 has doubled. So far over 2.7 million users or 33% of Xbox Live users played Halo 3 over Xbox Live. Halo 3 has sold over 2.6 million copies in US.
P S P
- Enterbrain reported that Sony has sold over 580,000 units of Slim PSP in Japan since its launch with Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII in Japan on September 13, 2007. A majority of buyers were women.
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