From gamersreports.com:
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Sony has launched the website for its CES 2006 showing. The site is just a teaser at this point, but the full glory of the PS3 info that well appear CES will be unveiled on the website on January 4th. If you remember, CES is where Sony is reportedly going to start pushing the Playstation 3 hard.
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Official Sony CES2006 website: http://www.sony.com/ces/index.shtml

The Official Playstation Magazine (via 1up.com) spoke with J. Allard, corporate vice president of Microsoft, and Kaz Hirai, president of Sony Computer Entertainment America, in a lengthy 4-page interview to get the details on the next generation and how consumers will ultimately be the winners. Here's a short excerpt:
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* OPM: Is there a sense that the PS3 needs to be rushed out with the Xbox 360 being first to market? Or is Sony taking its time and making sure that everything that needs to be there on launch day will be there?
* KH: Yeah, you pretty much answered the question. You probably know by looking at our history that we've never been first to market with any of our products. Saturn was there before the original PlayStation, and Dreamcast was out before the PS2. Plus, there have been so many handhelds before the PSP. People, especially people up north on the West Coast, seem to put a lot of credence on being out before the other consoles. If you take a look at when our competitors came out in the market, we had upward of 3 [million] to 5 million PS2 units when our competitors came out with a platform. Consumers adopted our platform because [they like our content] and not because we were first to market. And, first to market, from what we can tell, has never been an advantage.
At the end of the day, it's all about the entertainment content that you bring to the consumers, to the PlayStation family of products. We're going to make sure we're your family and that we'll take care of you. The last generation isn't just going away.

* OPM: What about the PlayStation 3 controller? Is it going to stay like that?
* KH: That was a prototype that was shown, and it's a tall order that Kutaragi-san ran past the designers. We've gone through two consoles with essentially the same controller design, and it's time for a fresh approach. We're going to look at the form factor, but at the same time we want it to feel familiar. It's difficult to balance the two. It's a work in progress. We certainly want to make sure that when you hold it in your hands that you've come home to something familiar.
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From gamesindustry.biz:
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NVIDIA Corporation has announced the signing of a definitive agreement for the acquisition of ULi Electronics, a leading developer of core logic technologies and current partner of rival chip manufacturer, ATI.

The move is designed to bolster NVIDIA's ongoing investment in its platform solution strategy, specifically the firm's acclaimed NVIDIA nForce media and communications processors, NVIDIA GeForce and NVIDIA Quadro graphics processing units. It is hoped that the acquisition will also serve to strengthen NVIDIA's relationships in sales, marketing and engineering, increasing its market presence and consumer share in the Chinese and Taiwanese markets.
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Phil Harrison gamesindustry.biz has an interview with Sony's Phil Harrison:
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One of the key players in Sony's plans for the videogames market, Harrison is uniquely placed to comment on the status of the PlayStation 2, the PlayStation Portable and the progress towards the launch of PlayStation 3.

In today's interview, which you can read in full here on GamesIndustry.biz, he discusses everything from the firm's sales ambitions for its existing platform to his thinking on next-generation topics such as online gaming and high-definition.

Harrison paints a picture of a company untroubled by the early arrival of its key rival in the next generation, the Xbox 360, telling us that "I think we've already made it - I don't think there's any risk of it being broken" in response to a question about whether 2006 is a make-or-break year for the PlayStation.
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Check out the full interview on gamesindustry.biz.

From forbes.com:
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Japanese electronics maker Toshiba Corp. said Tuesday copy protection issues would delay the Japan launch of the first players supporting its HD DVD format, the latest development in the high-stakes battle for the next generation of video discs.
Players will not hit the Japanese market until details of a copy protection system for the players are worked out, Toshiba said in a statement, reversing its earlier intention to roll out the first players in Japan by the end of the year. Toshiba did not give a specific release date.

The delay brings the launch of the HD DVD, jointly developed by Toshiba and NEC Corp., closer to the expected debut of its main competitor, the Blu-ray disc, which is backed by Sony Corp.
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From gamesindustry.biz:
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Speaking exclusively to GamesIndustry.biz this week, in an interview to be published tomorrow, Harrison described the Xbox 360 as "a lot better than their [Microsoft's] first introduction to the console business," but questioned the console's claim to being a High Definition device.

"The true definition of HD is the three elements of the HD value chain - the display, the content and the hardware to play back that content," he explained, "and PlayStation and Sony is the only organisation that has all three bits of the value chain together."
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From computerandvideogames.com:
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According to a report in the US Official Playstation Magazine, Jack Tretton, vice president of Sony Computer Entertainment America, has let drop the names of two possible PlayStation 3 launch titles, in the form of Incog's flight action game Warhawk and Factor 5's Lair.
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