Kaz Hirai: 13 million PS3s will be sold this year

The boss of Sony Computer Entertainment, Kaz Hirai, is upbeat about the PS3's future. With sales up 70% over last year and PSN growing substantially by the day, according to him things will only get better.

Hirai told reporters in Japan that he's "confident the PS3 hardware sales will hit the 13 million mark in the fiscal year ending March 2010.

As of now, for the first two quarters of this fiscal year, global PS3 hardware sales stand at 4.3 million.

He also mentioned that the company's planned online cross format entertainment system will without a doubt launch next year.

According to Reuters, "the network will make available "movies, music, books, and other content to network-capable TVs, Blu-ray players, ebooks and others."

11/20/09 Ernice Gilbert

Xbox 'Games on Demand' titles revealed

I know, the sun's hot like fire, and your car battery is dead. You want to play games but have none. Going down to gamestop is too much of a hassle you say? Aww, Microsoft feels your pain and as of this coming tuesday, you can grab a selected few titles right from you couch, (more will be made available later). The first batch will be added to the games on demand service with the new feature in the eagerly anticipated dashboard update. Microsoft has not yet set any price, but says they'll be similar in price to their counterparts.

Games on demand is the wave of the future, (fuuuutuuuuure. Got it?) but Microsoft's doing all it can to continue leading the pack in online play. The Playstation Network is right up to par with XBLA, and as both companies continue to fight for online dominance, it could only mean one thing for gamers the world over, we win folks. We win.

08/06/09 Ernice Gilbert