Source: The Tokyo-based Akiba Blog via the Tokyo-obsessed Kotaku. What we heard: When the PlayStation 3 went on sale last fall in Japan, it was in even scanter supply than it was in the US. According ...

What do you get when you take 80,000 and divide it by the population of Japan? Apparently you get the percentage of people who want a PS3 and will actually get one without eBaying their house and ...

TOKYO-Thousands of game fans queued for hours, braving Tokyo's early morning chill and occasional showers, as Sony's much-heralded and delayed PlayStation 3 game console went on sale on Saturday.

Today, Sony Interactive Entertainment has finally ceased the manufacturing and production of the PS3 console in Japan, which officially marks the end of the system's lifespan in the nation. The news ...

According to our ever so sexy counterparts, Kotaku, both versions of the Japanese PS3 will not be bundled with HDMI cables. Rather they will have the bare essential cables bundled. Those cables being ...

TOKYO--One of the biggest, and most unfortunate, surprises at the Tokyo Game Show 2005 so far has been the absence of any playable PlayStation 3 games. However, that didn't totally deflate the spirits ...

Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter - speaking in this week's VG247 podcast - has said that Japanese retailers are claiming they're unable to order in new PS3 hardware post August 8. Similar ...

The PlayStation 3 has outsold Nintendo’s Wii console in Japan for the month of November, according to the latest hardware figures from Famitsu publisher, Enterbrain. Calmative PS3 sales during the ...

Good news for anyone in Japan wanting a PS3 - Sony have cut the price of the I'm certainly left feeling the PS3 is vastly overpriced, and now Sony have confirmed this. I now know that it's at least 20 ...

The VGChartz Gap charts are updated monthly and each article focuses on a different gap chart. The charts include comparisons between the 7th generation and 8th generation platforms, as well as ...

PS3 is a month and a half away from mid-Novermber release date (Nov. 11 in Japan, Nov. 17 in the US), and analysts are getting jumpy at even a hint of problems. It's somewhat understandable. PS3 is ...

Sony took another blow with Nintendo's Wii game console outselling its PlayStation 3 by more than five to one in Japan last month, raising doubts over Sony's nascent earnings recovery. Sony's game ...