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Sony: By 2018, 90% Of Games Will Be Downloaded

Sony Computer Entertainment UK's Ray Maguire, amidst a discussion on the Byron Report (chastising it for not keeping up with a growing internet-based industry), made a prediction about the future of games:

...ten years from now the ratio of games sales will have gone from 90 per cent in-store to 90 per cent online.
And while that certainly doesn't sound wrong, I think that I speak for everyone here by saying, we know that we'll be downloading games in ten years. We're wondering more about the next five.

Sony:  Web sales will rule by 2018
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Sony Teases Firmware 2.4 and New Chat Functionality

While Sony just took the time to confirm that 1 million PS3s had sold in the UK, it was a quote from SCEE managing director Ray Maguire that got us all hot and bothered:

Our momentum will continue with the introduction of in-game communication in the summer, firmware update 2.4 and the strongest line-up of games through our third party partners and our own studios.
Let's start the semantics minigame. Does Maguire mean that we'll see the 2.4 update in the summer? And does that mean we'll see in-game XMB?

Let the arguments commence! UPDATE: It looks like he may have been talking about this.

Sony hails retail as PS3 hits 1m [MCV]


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Europe Loves PS3, Buys 600,000

After record breaking sales figures were announced in the UK for Sony's latest PlayStation, it should come as little surprise that the rest of Europe so ravenously snapped up PLAYSTATION 3s. True, at 599, moving some 600,000 PS3s into gamers hands is a little surprising, but Europe loves them some PlayStations. More »

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Why's That Euro PS3 So Damn Pricey?

When the PLAYSTATION 3 launch details were announced for the European territories, our 'PAL's across the Atlantic didn't have kind things to say about the pricing. A retail price of 425 is pretty hard to swallow, especially when you figure that the currency conversion equates to about $830 in the US or 101,000 in Japan. The 60GB model retails for $599 US and 59,980 in those territories, respectively, for the record. More »