Filed under: Company News , Economy , Microsoft , Sony Sony Corp. ( SNE ) hasn't had a consumer-electronics hit since the Walkman. It's in such dire straits these days, in fact, that its decision to slash the price of its PlayStation 3 game console is wholly unsurprising. The company reported awful earnings for the first quarter, dragged down by its PS3 game system -- losing ground to its rivals, Nintendo's ( NTDOY ) Wii and Microsoft's ( MSFT ) Xbox. Approximately 1.1million PS3 and 1.3

According to Sony's recent earnings figures, the company has sold 24 million PlayStation 3 units globally since the console's launch in late 2006. Total software sales, including PSN downloads for games, hit 190 million overall. Overall, however, the picture was not rosy for Sony's financials, which followed the lower than expected numbers at Microsoft from last week. The PlayStation division, which includes PS3, PS2 , PSP and Viao PC/notebook sales, saw a year-on-year decline of

We here at TVGB wade through tons of boring financial reports and news releases for the latest ColecoVision game. Thankfully we are not the only ones with this kind of dedication, or else we would have missed the fact that Nintendo has sold almost 50 million copies of Wii Sports since the game’s launch. Released in a supplement to their earnings statement, Nintendo gave us gave us a look at sales numbers for their top-selling games for this past quarter. Between April and June, the compa

In a supplement to Nintendo's earnings statement yesterday, the company released some sales numbers for top-selling games in the last quarter. Four Nintendo products sold over one million copies between April and July, only one of which was a new release anywhere in the world during that time. Pokemon Platinum on DS, which came out in North America in March, right before the quarter started, moved 1.91 million copies in Q1, for a life-to-date total of 5.66 million worldwide. It was an e