Nintendo platforms ended the year in the same kind of dominant software sales position that they've enjoyed for most of the rest of it as seven of the top ten in the chart in the last week of December were Wii or DS games.
At the company's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Sony demonstrated Blu-ray movie discs embedded with a lower-resolution version of the film for portable devices
Toshiba, the key player behind the HD DVD format, has released a statement reacting to last week's news that Warner Bros has decided to exclusively back its rival Blu-ray in the next generation DVD market.
The North American HD DVD Promotion Group has notified attendees at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that the scheduled press conference originally due to have taken place last night at 8:30pm local time was called off following the anno
A combination of continuing global financial uncertainty, concerns over exports, and the weak dollar saw the Tokyo Stock Exchange suffer a 4.5 per cent fall today.
The latest sales charts for Spain and Germany show strong support for the Nintendo platforms, with DS titles Dr Kawashima's Brain Training and More Brain Training coming in the top two in both countries.
Sales of Sony's PSP have more than doubled in Japan, with the console selling 184,610 units for the week ended December 16, compared to 91,481 units the previous week.
Jack Tretton, CEO of SCEA, has hit out at publishers who have suggested that console manufacturers need to lower the price of their hardware to improve sales.
Sony Corporation CEO Howard Stringer has said in an interview that he believes PlayStation 3 games are "infinitely more fun" than those on Nintendo's Wii.
Console sales in Japan have surged upwards once again with the DS, Wii and PlayStation Portable all seeing significant week on week double digit growth.
The environmental activist group Greenpeace International has launched a new video featuring iconic game characters as part of its campaign against e-waste