From gamasutra.com:
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A new survey by consumer research firm Experian has found that PlayStation 3 owners skew the oldest of all three consoles - with appeal at its highest levels to those 44 and older, also tracking low gamer activity in... needlework and antiques shopping?

The survey found that on a scale that found the Wii easily outranking the other two consoles amongst the 18-24 year olds but declining steadily as the age range grew higher, Xbox 360 ranked best with 35-44 year olds, with the PS3 showing a marked jump with the next-older group.
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Sony Corp. Chairman Howard Stringer said the company's top management priority is ``to restore profitability in our television and game businesses,'' both of which lost money last fiscal year.

Last month Sony predicted its games unit will post its first annual profit in three years after reducing the cost of making PlayStation 3s. Under Stringer, the PlayStation division lost $3.4 billion in the past two years after its flagship player was outsold by Nintendo Co.'s Wii. Chief Financial Officer Nobuyuki Oneda said in May Sony's TV business had a 73 billion yen ($678 million) loss in the year ended March 31.
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From ps3fanboy.com:
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The PlayStation 3 has outsold the Nintendo Wii worldwide for the third time ever for the week of June 7th to June 14th, according to VGChartz. This is the seventh time the PS3 was able to outsell the Wii in the US while in Japan this was the third time.
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From kotaku.com:
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"Reports that development for Final Fantasy Versus XIII is on hold are false," Square Enix said in a statement passed on to Eurogamer. "The truth of the situation is that when free, some staff from the Versus team have been helping with the XIII team on development of Final Fantasy XIII. Development for both titles is continuing as originally scheduled."
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From ps3fanboy.com:
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In the latest issue of Famitsu, an interview with Tetsuya Nomura revealed that Final Fantasy Versus XIII is currently being put on hold. Nomura, the game's director, said that the majority of the team working on Versus XIII is now helping out on Final Fantasy XIII. The main title in the Fabula Nova Crystallis compilation is top priority at the moment.
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Total Hardware (VGChartz): [Last Week #]
PS3: 81,323 (+665%) [10,637]
PSP: 63,996 (+9%) [58,658]
Wii: 46,378 (+7%) [43,536]
DSL: 39,305 (+14%)[34,350]
PS2: 7,664 (+24%) [6,160]
360: 2,288 (+1%) [2,256]

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Playstation firmware v2.36 has been released.
What's new/fixed:
* System stability during use of some PlayStation® format software has been improved.

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From gamesindustry.biz:
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Despite going straight in at number one in the software charts and being the biggest PlayStation 3-exclusive release so far, Metal Gear Solid 4 has failed to prove a major driver of hardware in the UK, with Chart-Track revealing a "minimal" spike of seven percent over its opening weekend.

The UK sales monitor revealed last night that Konami's hugely anticipated blockbuster, which released worldwide last Thursday (June 12), has become the second fastest-selling PS3 title in the UK after Grand Theft Auto IV, and 14,000 short of the opening weekend figure recorded by Metal Gear Solid 2 on PS2 in 2002.
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From the Official Playstation Blog
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A new PLAYSTATION 3 firmware update (v2.36) will be launching soon, improving system stability when playing select PlayStation format software titles. We're also happy to officially report that the 2.40 system software update for PS3 will include "XMB" access in-game. The update will also include "trophies," an exciting new feature that we'll be providing more details on soon, as well as some other new enhancements. We've talked about some of this on the blog previously and know that many of you can't wait to get your hands on these features. You can expect us to share all of the official details shortly.
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From gamesindustry.biz:
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Next year will be the year that third-party development will favour the PS3, says Shuhei Yoshida.

Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, the new president of Sony Worldwide Studios admitted that the PS3's launch year was disappointing because third-party developers had to build their games based upon the Xbox 360's architecture as Microsoft's hardware was released earlier.

"Moving forward I'm totally confident that developers will start to use more from the PlayStation 3 platform. This year is the year of parity, next year is the year of differentiation in favour of the PS3 platform," Yoshida said.
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From vgchartz.com:
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With data for the week ending June 14, 2008 now in, PS3 hardware sales have passed Xbox 360 sales in Europe . Despite launching over a year after the Xbox 360 did in Europe, PS3 sales stand at 5,450,869 while Xbox 360 sales in Europe stand at 5,415,053 units in Europe. The larger ‘Others' region covers places like Australia, Africa, and mainland Asia in addition to Europe, which is why Xbox 360 is still slightly ahead of PS3 in Others. Additionally, Sony and Microsoft define ‘Europe' differently in their financial reports, while in this case ‘Europe' simply means the entire continent of Europe.
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