While gamers throughout the rest of the world get their PlayStation 3 in any color they wish, so long as it’s black, Japan will soon be receiving its third color variant. picked by punthe 7 months ago

Sony Corp said on Tuesday it would cut the price of its PlayStation 3 game console with a 20 gigabyte hard disk drive by 10 percent in Japan and launch a new model, weighing on shares in rival Nintendo Co Ltd. picked by punthe 11 months ago

Sony said on Thursday it sold a record number of its PlayStation Portables (PSPs) in Japan in September as a slimmer and cheaper version of the handheld game machine helped drive demand. picked by punthe 11 months ago

Sony Corp sold about 250,000 units of the new version of the PlayStation Portable in Japan in the four days since its launch. picked by punthe 12 months ago

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc said Monday it sold more than 1 million of its new slim and light PlayStation Portable handheld game players in Japan in the first two months since its release on Sept 20. picked by punthe 10 months ago

North America will soon follow. picked by punthe 7 months ago

Uh... Headline picked by punthe 9 months ago

That's right! picked by punthe 4 months ago

Japan's Sony Corp plans to add an Internet phone function to its PlayStation Portable (PSP) game player in cooperation with eBay unit Skype to stir up demand. picked by punthe 8 months ago

Harei village, Shingo, Japan, is said to be the grave of Jesus when he died in the village after escaping Roman persecutors in Golgotha, Israel. According to the myth, in Japan his job was as a carpenter and he made his own cross for the grave at the age of 107. picked by mitzuzake 12 months ago

No, not made in Japan. Made of Japan, or at least made of Japanese blogs. The site taps into 150 blogs each hour, analyzes the colors and brings them together to make a shoe. What you can do then is to click on any of the elements of the shoe and see what it is and which blog it comes from.

Could be nsfw, you never know... picked by BernardBlack 2 months ago

For the second week running, the PSP has outsold the Wii, with a rise in demand of almost 57,000 units to 218,234. picked by punthe 8 months ago

Sony just announced a whopping 34 titles that are upcoming for the PlayStation 3. Sony might also lower prices for the PS3. Is this a turning point for Sony's war against Microsoft's XBox and Nintendo's Wii?! picked by jaxnight 1 year ago

Sony Corp said it will launch four models of new Blu-ray high-definition optical disc recorders in November in Japan, as its format battle with the HD DVD camp heats up. picked by punthe 12 months ago

PlayStation Home is currently on track for a Spring 2008 launch, and will be free to download for all PLAYSTATION 3 users. picked by punthe 7 months ago

By YURI KAGEYAMA, AP Business Writer
TOKYO - Sony's PlayStation 3 made its highly anticipated debut in Japan to long lines on Saturday, with local stores selling out their supplies of the video game console in a pattern that's expected to be repeated around the world. picked by slime 2 years ago

That swanky all-white PlayStation 3 released in Japan last fall seems to be heading to North America after all, according to a Federal Communications Commission filing. picked by punthe 8 months ago

With the lowering costs of chips and production, Sony will turn a profit on the PLAYSTATION 3 sooner than analysts had expected. picked by punthe 5 months ago

Sony is taking the wraps off a 40-GB PlayStation 3 video game console today and knocking $100 off the price of its top-end 80-GB unit in an attempt to generate momentum heading into the holiday season. picked by punthe 11 months ago

Blogs are even more popular in Japan than in the U.S. It may be that they represent an appealing outlet in a culture that discourages public self-expression. Japan produced 8.7 million blogs at the end of March, and the U.S. an estimated 12 million blogs -- making blogging far more popular in Japan, taking the countries' relative populations into account. An estimated 25 million Japanese -- more t... read full post picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago