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		<title>How Sony May Have Won E3 With the PlayStation 4</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/11/how-sony-may-have-won-e3-with-the-playstation-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, I don&#8217;t work for Sony, thanks for asking. But just to be up-front, I&#8217;m about to type a bunch of positive things about Sony (having typed a bunch of negative things four months ago). That&#8217;s because its E3 presser resonated quite a bit more than Microsoft&#8217;s, which aired early Monday morning. E3 (and, you know, life) isn&#8217;t made of perfectly balanced events where everyone comes out equally potent. Sometimes that&#8217;s just how things roll. For starters, what some took for a subdued performance for much of Sony&#8217;s presser — the sort of subdued where anodyne music plays and presenters actually spend time talking substantively to the audience instead of visually assaulting it — was something of a blessing, a respite from the juvenile techno-infused thump-thump-thump party vibe that tends to hang over these spectacular spectaculars like a locker-room miasma. Nintendo and Apple are masters of this let&#8217;s-treat-viewers-intelligently approach. Sony seemed to be learning how to pull that off (whereas Microsoft still has no idea how it&#8217;s done). I was neither impressed nor unimpressed by the actual PS4 system reveal: it&#8217;s basically a trapezoidal PS2, but who cares what it looks like, really. For all intents and purposes, it&#8217;s a black brick, just like Microsoft&#8217;s black brick. For most players, it&#8217;s going to sit on a shelf, only be visible from the front and not move. If Sony withheld this reveal to give its E3 presser extra pizzazz, it hardly needed to. Gamewise, I saw exclusives that interested me and others that didn&#8217;t — the same reaction I had to Microsoft&#8217;s no more or less engaging lineup. (I admit games predominantly about cars, guns and sports tend to live at the bottom of my play list nowadays.) Notables: The Order: 1886, Knack, Kingdom Hearts III, inFAMOUS: Second Son, Final Fantasy XV (née Final Fantasy Versus XIII) and every one of the demoed indie titles. Microsoft&#8217;s Xbox One indie shout-out by comparison during its event: another Minecraft port. (Update: Square Enix just revealed that KHIII and FFXV will be on Xbox One as well.) I&#8217;m still not<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164439&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Revealed: Sony&#8217;s PlayStation 4 Is Actually a Giant Lump of Coal</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/20/revealed-sonys-playstation-4-is-actually-a-giant-lump-of-coal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 00:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Look up in the sky! It&#8217;s a&#8230;vent! It&#8217;s a&#8230;vaguely beveled protuberance! It&#8217;s a&#8230;oh, umm, okay, I guess it&#8217;s just the PlayStation 4, you know, viewed in the teaser video above as if held under an opaque, grayish tarp. In other words, it&#8217;s a giant lump of coal. As giant lumps of coal go, it certainly has features! Like: the PlayStation logo, because we were sure worried it wouldn&#8217;t have that; lots of black holes, possibly for thermal egress (thus giving me a chance to use &#8220;egress&#8221; in a sentence); the rounded underside possibly of the new controller, which if we go with precedent is going to look exactly like the last five-bazillion controllers (but since that&#8217;s too obvious, probably won&#8217;t); a line of chevrons, which is kind of weird; and then a bunch of stuff that goes by too fast for me to care. (If you really want to see each frame, someone&#8217;s done the world that kindness here, though spoilers, all you&#8217;re getting is that it&#8217;s black and still conforms to the tenets of Euclidean geometry.) What&#8217;s Sony up to besides sitting back, watching the headlines roll and chuckling &#8220;Made you look!&#8221;? Microsoft&#8217;s Xbox event is tomorrow at 1pm ET, during which the company&#8217;s probably going to unveil its latest Xbox-quel. Thus Sony&#8217;s PR stunt, in case you somehow missed the show back in February when Sony tipped us off to the PS4&#8242;s existence, or, you know, ever bought a game console because one looked cooler than another.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163144&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>3G PlayStation Vita Prices Are Falling</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something funny&#8217;s going on with Sony&#8217;s PlayStation Vita handheld. As Joystiq reports, several Sony stores around the United States are selling the 3G Vita for $200, which is $50 less than the Wi-Fi-only model. Some other stores told Joystiq that Sony is discontinuing the 3G model altogether. Meanwhile, Sony&#8217;s online store has dropped the price of the 3G PS Vita down to $250 &#8212; same as its Wi-Fi counterpart. That 3G bundle also comes with an 8 GB memory card and a free PSN game. It gets weirder. If you go to GameStop&#8217;s PS Vita landing page right now, the retailer only lists refurbished units and a $300 bundle of games and hardware. If you want to buy a new, standalone Vita from GameStop, you can&#8217;t; the full list of Vita hardware on GameStop&#8217;s website shows that all models are out of stock, both Wi-Fi and 3G, with the exception of that $300 bundle. Best Buy is still selling the 3G Vita for $300, but only for in-store pickups. I&#8217;ve reached out to Sony to find out what&#8217;s going on, and will update if I get a response. (Update: &#8221;The reduction in price is the result of a limited time sales promotion through retail,&#8221; says Sony.) In the meantime, consider that Sony recently dropped the price of the PS Vita in Japan &#8212; a move that reportedly quadrupled sales. It&#8217;s not crazy to think that a U.S. price cut for the PS Vita is imminent, despite the insistence to the contrary by Sony Worldwide Studios head Shuhei Yoshida. The other possibility is that Sony is preparing a 4G LTE version of the Vita, which would of course greatly improve data speeds on the handheld. But the only evidence I can find on that front is one pretty sketchy rumor. As my colleague Matt Peckham wrote back in August, the Vita&#8217;s $250-and-up price tag is just too high compared to what people expect for a handheld, and sales have been predictably slow. This creates a vicious cycle where software makers become afraid<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=157983&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will the PlayStation 4 Play Used Games? Maybe, Maybe Not</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/21/will-the-playstation-4-play-used-games-maybe-maybe-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ahead of Sony&#8217;s PlayStation 4 announcement Wednesday night, the rumor mill put odds on the new game console&#8217;s ability to play used games at right about zero. Bear in mind the rumors came from gossip blogs known for chasing the moon, but the notion struck a chord with gamers because it&#8217;s been happening for years over on the PC side of the biz: bigwigs like Valve and Blizzard eliminated the secondary PC games market entirely years ago by tethering Steam and Battle.net accounts to game activations, whether via digital or physical copies. Maybe you&#8217;ll make a few bucks reselling your collector&#8217;s edition of World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria, but the disc inside might as well be a coaster: Whoever you sell to still has to pay for a code to unlock the game itself. That&#8217;s essentially how the rumor mill claimed Sony was planning to roll with the PS4, tethering game content to online user accounts and establishing an activation system that&#8217;d put the thumbscrews to resales, digital or physical. Sony was mum on the subject at its PS4 press event, preferring instead to highlight the console&#8217;s graphical brawn, tease the modestly redesigned controller and talk up social interactivity, but Eurogamer managed to corner Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida and pop the question &#8220;Will it or won&#8217;t it?&#8221; Sony&#8217;s answer, concludes Eurogamer, is that the PS4 will play used games (the article&#8217;s subtitled &#8220;PlayStation 4 will not block used games&#8221;). But reading what Yoshida actually said, I&#8217;d say the answer&#8217;s still clear as mud. &#8220;So if someone buys a PlayStation 4 game &#8230; you&#8217;re not going to stop them reselling it?&#8221; asks Eurogamer, to which Yoshida doesn&#8217;t immediately respond, eventually saying: &#8220;So, used games can play on PS4. How is that?&#8221; Mission accomplished? Not so fast. Remember when you asked your elementary school teacher &#8220;Can I go to the bathroom?&#8221; and she/he answered &#8220;I don&#8217;t know, can you?&#8221; Silly semantics, I know, but when you&#8217;re parsing potentially game-changing corporate directives, they mean everything. It&#8217;s possible Yoshida meant &#8220;will&#8221; play, but without clarification, who<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=157018&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sony&#8217;s PlayStation 4 Reveal Raises More Questions than Answers</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/21/sonys-playstation-4-reveal-raises-more-questions-than-answers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As expected, Sony&#8217;s Manhattan-staged PlayStation media event was the sort of hype-lathered spectacle we&#8217;ve come to expect from companies that bet the farm on overlong, action-packed game teasers whose crowning achievements involve moments where tricked-out environments pop with dazzling granularity. For the better part of a somewhat erratic two hours, Sony turned its official PlayStation 4 announcement into exactly that: a collage of developers dragging millions of live-stream viewers through hypothetical exhibitions of the PS4&#8242;s prowess, capsulized in money shots of gleaming race cars, blaze-filled iron sights, exploding buildings and impressive (if still not entirely human-looking) faces. It&#8217;s as if Sony expected gamers to exhale in collective elation as it rang the old Pavlovian graphics bell. It was, in short, precisely what I&#8217;d been hoping the company wouldn&#8217;t do: deploy breathless presenters who wound up showing way too much of much too little. To be fair, we probably won&#8217;t lay eyes or hands on the PS4 until E3 this June, and we won&#8217;t be able to actually buy the thing until late this year (probably in November), which means the system specs, console housing and pricing are still in flux, to say nothing of the launch games &#8212; always a crazy, last-minute affair, a situation doubtless complicated by soaring production costs associated with creating better than passable content for a console that&#8217;s undergone a complete architectural reboot. (MORE: PlayStation 4 Unveiled: Sony Announces New Game Console, Social Features) Speaking of architecture, let&#8217;s talk about the PS4&#8242;s specs for a moment. We don&#8217;t know much: an eight-core x86 AMD CPU paired with a “highly advanced” AMD-based graphics processor capable of 1.84 TFLOPS (both processors on the same die), a respectable 8GB of GDDR5 system memory (&#8220;capable of moving data at 176 gigabytes per second,&#8221; boasted Sony) and of course a hard drive (size unspecified, though Sony at one point referred to it as &#8220;massive&#8221;). It&#8217;ll also sport a secondary processor dedicated to &#8220;background processing,&#8221; which Sony hyped by referencing the ability to start playing a digitally delivered game before it&#8217;s done<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=156902&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PlayStation 4 Unveiled: Sony Announces New Game Console, Social Features</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/20/playstation-4-unveiled-sony-announces-new-game-console-social-features/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 02:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rumors you&#8217;ve been hearing are true: nearly eight years after Sony announced its current-generation PlayStation 3 game console and media hub at E3 in 2005, Sony used a press event in New York City on Wednesday night to unveil the PS3’s official successor, the long-awaited PlayStation 4. As Sony Computer Entertainment president and CEO Andrew House took the stage, he promised to give us &#8220;a glimpse into the future of play.&#8221; The event wasn&#8217;t just about hyping a slab of custom-built computer hardware, either. Sony dedicated much of its presentation to new features like remote play, game streaming and social interaction — all stuff it says comes built into the PS4’s DNA. And it even managed to pull off a few surprises no one saw coming, including a partnership with PC gamemaker Blizzard. The Console Itself Sony took us further into the weeds than expected, though just barely, laying out the PS4’s specs in slight detail, revealing that it&#8217;s powered by an x86 CPU, a &#8220;highly advanced&#8221; graphics processor that uses GDDR5 memory, a respectable 8GB of memory and of course a hard drive (size unspecified). How powerful are we talking? Sony left performance comparisons with earlier systems up to developers, who teased abstract figures that only glancingly addressed the question. Given what was shown in game-play demos and sizzle reels, it&#8217;s obvious the PS4 will pack more oomph than its predecessor, though eyeballing those same demos, it&#8217;s also clear the company&#8217;s playing catch-up to PCs, which have been capable of the sort of raw generational power demonstrated during the presser for years. Suffice to say the adage that &#8220;the last generation&#8217;s prerendered cut scenes become the next generation&#8217;s real-time game play&#8221; sounds about right. Alas, we didn&#8217;t get a peek at the physical console itself, though that&#8217;s also no shocker, given that the system&#8217;s final specs are probably still in flux. The Not-So-Different Controller The PlayStation 4’s new controller — unimaginatively dubbed the DualShock 4 — looks a lot like its predecessor with slightly longer handlebar grips, but also includes<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=156888&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Watch: Sony Unveils PlayStation 4</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/20/watch-live-sonys-playstation-event/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Video streaming by Ustream At a press conference in New York on Wednesday, Sony unveiled its newest PlayStation console &#8212; the PlayStation 4.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=156905&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>6 Things Not to Expect from Sony&#8217;s PlayStation Event</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/19/6-things-not-to-expect-from-sonys-playstation-event/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Would it be fair to call Sony&#8216;s Manhattan-based Feb. 20 shindig &#8220;P-day&#8221;? We might as well, what with that PlayStation logo headlining Sony&#8217;s &#8220;Meeting 2013&#8243; event teaser site &#8212; a site that&#8217;s now sporting a mini-history of most of the hardware that falls under the renowned moniker&#8217;s umbrella. My memories of the first PlayStation&#8217;s earliest days are mixed. Maybe that&#8217;s because I was playing the thing months in advance. The guy I worked for &#8212; the store manager of a Babbages &#8212; paid a shedload of cash for a Japanese import model. He liked to drop it in the store display window, then run the Ridge Racer start screen demo to see how many passerby would stop to gawk, or ask what the heck it was. Remember when video games still had that power over us? (MORE: The Great Hotmail-to-Outlook.com Transition Begins) Don&#8217;t worry, this isn&#8217;t my PlayStation retrospective, which, like yours, could probably fill a book three people want to read. Let&#8217;s talk instead about Sony&#8217;s ballyhooed Wednesday evening event, 6:00pm ET, where we&#8217;re expecting to see the company&#8217;s next-gen game system. TIME Tech editor Doug Aamoth is kindly attending in my stead and should have all the details straightaway, and you&#8217;ll be able to watch things unfold live courtesy the event site. I&#8217;ve already scribbled down a few lessons I hope Sony&#8217;s learned since the PS3&#8242;s debut in November 2006, so here&#8217;s another list &#8212; this one of things I&#8217;m not expecting from the event. Like&#8230; &#8230;something that isn&#8217;t the next PlayStation. We don&#8217;t know what we don&#8217;t know, to paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, but the way this typically works is, a company announces it&#8217;s holding a major media event, the press speculates irresponsibly, and if that speculation morphs into certainty (as it has in this case), the company typically follows up with some sort of off-the-record denial to recalibrate expectations. Sony&#8217;s done nothing to quiet the rumor mill here. In fact you could say it&#8217;s poured rocket fuel on the rumormongering with its PlayStation retrospective videos, all but guaranteeing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=156808&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Death of Used Games Is a Rumor That Won&#8217;t Die</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/06/the-death-of-used-games-is-a-rumor-that-wont-die/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Enjoy your right to buy and sell used video games now, because Microsoft&#8217;s next Xbox may not allow it, according to yet another report. Edge, a well-respected gaming magazine and website, cites &#8220;sources with first-hand experience&#8221; of Microsoft&#8217;s next console, who say game discs will only work for the original purchaser. Microsoft may require users to enter an activation code, the sources say, which would presumably tie the game to a single user or system. The next Xbox may also have a persistent online connection. This isn&#8217;t the first time we&#8217;ve heard that Microsoft might nix used games in its next Xbox. A year ago, Kotaku wrote that the console would have some sort of anti-used game system, citing &#8220;one reliable industry source.&#8221; VG247 floated the idea of an always-on Internet requirement last April. Microsoft may not even be the only one planning such a system. Last March, Kotaku reported that Sony&#8217;s next PlayStation would have a way to cut off the used game business. People who tried to play a previously-owned game, sources said, would be limited in what they could do with the game. Sony has already applied for a patent on a type of RF tagging that would match a game disc with a single console. At this point, I&#8217;ve seen enough reports to believe that something is happening beyond the &#8220;Online Pass&#8221; concept of existing consoles. Publishers have griped about the used game business for a long time; it looks like they&#8217;ll finally get some more tools to shut it down. How exactly it&#8217;ll work remains unclear, but here are a few hypothetical issues that come to mind: If the used game trade goes away, a fairly-priced digital market must replace it. No one complains about how you can&#8217;t buy or sell used games on a PC, an Android phone or an iPad. That&#8217;s because people are still getting good deals. Sale prices or even giveaways are common for older games on phones and tablets, and prices are much lower in general. On PC distribution services<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=156235&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Next PlayStation: 5 Lessons I Hope Sony&#8217;s Learned</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/01/the-next-playstation-5-lessons-i-hope-sonys-learned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From wishful thinking to shockingly sudden all-but-certainty, Sony&#8216;s next game system may be here at last (I&#8217;ll try to avoid calling it things Sony hasn&#8217;t, like &#8220;PlayStation 4&#8243; or &#8220;Orbis&#8221;), apparently head-faking Microsoft to debut earlier than expected at what&#8217;ll no doubt be a media circus in New York (and online) come Feb. 20. The event invite cleared my inbox last night accompanied by, well, see for yourself in Sony&#8217;s slick dubstep tease above. Sony labeled the event &#8220;PlayStation Meeting,&#8221; which is sort of like calling E3 &#8220;L.A. Occurrence,&#8221; but, well, marketing. (MORE: How to Watch the Super Bowl Live Online) At this point, your guess would have been as good as mine: probably the next PlayThing, because what else is Sony going to hype for three weeks and drag folks to from all corners of the earth? Still, I could have flown around the room on a broomstick: a PlayStation VitaPad, a PlayStation Phone (pPhone!), or heck, even Sony&#8217;s answer to Google&#8216;s Project Glass (Sony GlassStation!). But no, the Wall Street Journal went and spoiled the fun by claiming that, yes indeed, Sony&#8217;s going to give us a peek at its next games console and ship the thing later this year, probably around the holidays. I consider that slightly more plausible than hearsay since it&#8217;s the Journal, but bear in mind it&#8217;s still a claim based on unidentified sources (the Journal pulls the phrase &#8220;people familiar with the matter&#8221; off the shelf at least four times). No surprise, the story&#8217;s taken off like a guy air-riding a horse, prompting a bunch of people to throw odd notions at the wall based on even sketchier sourcing. Instead of regaling you with tales of mystical multi-core processors pulling contextually meaningless speeds, why don&#8217;t we look back at some of the things I suspect we&#8217;d all agree Sony needs to do better the next time around. Don&#8217;t launch at $500-$600. I still can&#8217;t imagine what Sony was thinking in 2006 (well, beyond &#8220;we can barely afford to build this franken-thing!&#8221;). Yes, everyone loved the PlayStation 2, and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=155945&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sony&#8217;s Super-Slim PlayStation 3: One Step Forward, One Step Back</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/10/01/sonys-super-slim-playstation-3-one-step-forward-one-step-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week Sony released a surprise three-quel PlayStation 3 -- an even slimmer, lighter rendition of its six-year-old games console. It then dropped <em>that</em> into a new bundle, raised the price by $20 and declared it “the ultimate gaming and entertainment system choice for those of you looking for the best value this holiday season.” So is it?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=147365&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What If Sony’s Next PlayStation Didn’t Arrive Until 2015?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/09/26/what-if-sonys-next-playstation-didnt-arrive-until-2015/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine the unthinkable: Sony’s next PlayStation, or whatever it’s ultimately called, arrives not next year and not the year after that, but sometime in 2015. Three years out -- a lifetime in console years. Could you live with that?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=147117&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who Needs a PlayStation 4 When You Can Have a &#8216;PS3 Slimmer&#8217;?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/09/20/who-needs-a-playstation-4-when-you-can-have-a-ps3-slimmer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=146741</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you woke to the news yesterday morning wondering why Sony chose the Tokyo Game Show to out a new slimmer-than-slim PlayStation 3, well, just do the math: The PS3 outsells the Xbox 360 in Japan roughly six to one, whereas Sony’s set-top lags behind Microsoft's Xbox 360 in unit sales by around 15 million units this side of the pond.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=146741&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Isn&#8217;t It Time for a PlayStation Vita Price Cut?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/08/07/isnt-it-time-for-a-playstation-vita-price-cut/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=141689</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If Sony wants the Vita to succeed, it needs to take its cues from Nintendo and drop the $250 Vita's price by at least $50.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=141689&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sony PlayStation Vita Review: Beautiful, Expensive and Worth It</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/02/13/sony-playstation-vita-review-beautiful-expensive-and-worth-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=118564</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The PlayStation Vita is Sony's biggest gamble yet — a pricey, piano-black, hockey-rink-shaped gaming handheld tricked out with dual joysticks, motion and touch controls, and a gorgeous widescreen aimed unapologetically at serious gamers.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=118564&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 Game Stories to Watch in 2012</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/12/27/5-game-stories-to-watch-in-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=111771</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Goodbye 2011, you tumultuous, fickle, lovely year — hello 2012, another 365-day stretch full of promises, disappointments, and with a little luck, a few pleasant surprises as well. While we're recovering from Christmas candy excesses and priming our livers for New Year's debaucheries, let's have a look at gaming's crystal ball and see what bobs up.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=111771&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time to Cut the Cord? Sony Reported to Be Prepping Internet-Based Cable TV Replacement</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/16/time-to-cut-the-cord-sony-reported-to-be-prepping-internet-based-cable-tv-replacement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cable companies' worst cord-cutting nightmares may be about to come true, with new rumors emerging that Sony is considering launching an online alternative to cable TV. It'd apparently offer a variety of live programming available to anyone with an internet-enabled Sony device, cutting out the need for cable boxes, satellite dishes or even plain old antennae.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=105521&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sony&#8217;s PlayStation 3D TV: Gorgeous with One Glaring Problem</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/08/sonys-playstation-3d-tv-gorgeous-with-one-glaring-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 09:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=102114</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine my surprise when, last week, the UPS guy dropped off a package from Sony containing a brand new flatscreen TV—not just any flatscreen, mind you, but Sony&#8217;s new PlayStation 3D TV! Remember when they announced it back in June at E3 2011? I&#8217;d forgotten all about it until it appeared on my doorstep, as if by subconscious conjuration. Not that I&#8217;m consciously looking for 3D in a TV. Avatar&#8216;s 3D tech did nothing for me, and to be frank, I&#8217;m with film critics like Roger Ebert who view 3D as a gimmick. My brain handles the illusion of 3D just fine watching ordinary video feeds without the need for special tech or eyewear. But the 24-inch PlayStation 3D TV, which Sony&#8217;s planning to sell for $500 come November 13, isn&#8217;t merely a vehicle for 3D. It&#8217;s also a gorgeous native 1080p (1920 by 1080 pixel) screen that just happens to include &#8220;quad-speed frame sequential display technology&#8221; (a 240Hz refresh rate) designed to mitigate 3D crosstalk (basically where the left-right images don&#8217;t line up perfectly and you can see the overlap), stereo speakers with inbuilt subwoofer, edge LED backlighting, an HDMI cable, a pair of 3D glasses and a copy of racer MotorStorm Apocalypse. For I/O, you get two HDMI 1.4 inputs, and a single stereo headphone output. (MORE: E3 2011: Sony&#8217;s New 3D Monitor, $249 &#8216;Vita&#8217; Handheld, &#8216;Uncharted 3&#8242; Gameplay) My first thought, pulling the set from the box, was &#8220;where&#8217;s the remote?&#8221; It turns out there isn&#8217;t one—not in my review unit, nor shipping with the retail version. If you have other recent Sony TVs, those remotes work, but if you want to fiddle the PS TV&#8217;s settings, you&#8217;ll have to do so using the set&#8217;s built-in buttons (located on its rear side). That, or use your PlayStation 3 remote, which the set also supports. My second thought: &#8220;It&#8217;s sleek and beautiful!&#8221; And my third, right behind that one, &#8220;Oh no, literally sleek? As in glossy?&#8221; Yep, as in &#8220;might as well be a mirror.&#8221; I suspect that&#8217;s partly why the display comes<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=102114&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PlayStation Vita Finally Arriving in U.S. February 2012</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/19/playstation-vita-finally-arriving-in-u-s-february-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=100228</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bumped from its original planned &#8220;holiday 2011&#8243; release window, Sony&#8217;s PlayStation Vita will finally hit the U.S. (and pretty much everywhere else, worldwide) on February 22, 2012, roughly two months after Sony&#8217;s powerhouse gaming portable goes on sale in Japan. Sony president and CEO Jack Tretton broke the news at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco yesterday, then followed up with a post on Sony&#8217;s official PlayStation blog. The Vita will ship simultaneously in the United States, Canada, Latin America and Europe, says Tretton. And while we&#8217;ve long known this next bit, it&#8217;ll sell in two flavors: one for $299 with Wi-Fi and 3G, another for $249 that&#8217;ll be Wi-Fi only. (MORE: PS Vita Bumped to 2012—Your Move, Nintendo) The Vita&#8217;s claim to fame includes its twin analog thumbsticks, 5-inch multitouch OLED screen, rear-facing touchpad, and powerful quad-core ARM Cortex CPU and PowerVR-based graphics chips. It&#8217;s supposed to be comparable to the PlayStation 3 visually, and indeed, Sony&#8217;s talked up development tools that allow porting of existing PS3 games to the handheld with minimal effort. Tretton says the system has &#8220;more than 100 games currently in development globally that span many different genres,&#8221; though note the &#8220;globally&#8221; part means he&#8217;s counting games in all regions, several of which probably won&#8217;t crossover, say, from Japan to the U.S. (or vice versa). And yet the Vita&#8217;s ballyhooed arrival comes in the wake of declining dedicated gaming handheld sales, as well as surging competition from smartphones and tablets, whether iOS-based devices like the iPhone and iPad or Google&#8217;s flourishing fleet of Android-based phones. While Nintendo&#8217;s 3DS has rebounded somewhat in recent monthly sales, following the company&#8217;s unprecedented price cut in August to counter plummeting sales, the PlayStation Portable didn&#8217;t even register on NPD&#8217;s September 2011 sales charts. What used to be a Pokemon and New Super Mario Bros. world has seen gaming shift toward an Angry Birds one. A pivotal question: whether game-savvy consumers want a second handheld in addition to a smartphone. When you&#8217;re home, you&#8217;re more likely playing on a set-top<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=100228&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sony Reports &#8216;Massive&#8217; Hacking Attempt Against Networks</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/12/sony-reports-massive-hacking-attempt-against-network/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sony has taken to its PlayStation blog, informing customers that &#8220;a massive set of sign-in IDs and passwords&#8221; have recently been tested against its PlayStation, Sony Entertainment and Sony Online Entertainment networks. The good news is that a) Sony appears to be pretty upfront about this, which is a nice change compared to how the initial summer hacks were handled, and b) it appears that the username and password combinations were stolen from somewhere else, since many of them didn&#8217;t work on Sony&#8217;s networks. (MORE: E3 2011: Sony Leads with Apology for PlayStation Network Outage) Says Sony: &#8220;These attempts appear to include a large amount of data obtained from one or more compromised lists from other companies, sites or other sources. In this case, given that the data tested against our network consisted of sign-in ID-password pairs, and that the overwhelming majority of the pairs resulted in failed matching attempts, it is likely the data came from another source and not from our Networks. We have taken steps to mitigate the activity. Less than one tenth of one percent (0.1%) of our PSN, SEN and SOE audience may have been affected. There were approximately 93,000 accounts globally (PSN/SEN: approximately 60,000 accounts; SOE: approximately 33,000) where the attempts succeeded in verifying those accounts’ valid sign-in IDs and passwords, and we have temporarily locked these accounts. Only a small fraction of these 93,000 accounts showed additional activity prior to being locked. We are currently reviewing those accounts for unauthorized access, and will provide more updates as we have them. Please note, if you have a credit card associated with your account, your credit card number is not at risk.&#8221; If your PlayStation or Sony Entertainment account has been affected, you&#8217;ll be receiving an e-mail from Sony prompting you to reset your password. If your Sony Online Entertainment account has been affected, it&#8217;s &#8220;been temporarily turned off,&#8221; says Sony, and you&#8217;ll be receiving an e-mail with instructions on how &#8220;to validate your account credentials and have your account turned back on.&#8221; MORE: Sony<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=99621&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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