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  • What was the best selling video game system in September? (Hint: Sony makes it.)

    What was the best selling video game system in September? (Hint: Sony makes it.)

    This probably won't come as a surprise to any of you, but September was a Very Big month in the life of the PS3. For the first time ever, since its launch in fall, 2006, the PS3 was the best-selling video game system. See what amazing things happen when you price a product at an affordable level?

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  • Three years later, the PS3 outsells the Wii (in Japan)

    Three years later, the PS3 outsells the Wii (in Japan)

    It only took Sony three years for it to get its act together! The recent introduction of the PS3 Slim was, as you know, a pretty big success, and today we have another metric: for the first time ever, the PS3 outsold the Wii in Japan last month. Everyone party!

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  • Nintendo will fix your Wii if the latest system update broke it

    Nintendo will fix your Wii if the latest system update broke it

    Have you updated your Wii to version 4.2 yet? Because if you have, and you're now having problems with your system, Nintendo will fix it for free.

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  • Greenpeace hates Apple, HP a little bit less today

    Greenpeace hates Apple, HP a little bit less today

    Like many of you, my knowledge of Greenpeace begins and ends with that one Seinfeld episode, the one where the NBC executive, so in love with Elaine, freaks out and joins the organization in order to impress her. That is to say I don't really understand the “point” of the organization, or who appointed it the protector of the environment. But, it is, somehow, so let's roll with it. Good news for HP and Apple: Greenpeace hates you two a little bit less today! Break out the champagne!

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  • Pachter declares PS3 price cut by October 1

    Pachter declares PS3 price cut by October 1

    I hate to do it, but I have to. Sorry, kids. Ahead of the June NPD numbers that will be released on Thursday, Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter stated today that US sales of the Wii, Xbox 360 and PS3 have declined 43 percent from June of last year to June 2009. He predicts that Nintendo moved 350,000 Wiis while Sony sold 165,000 PS3s and Microsoft came up shy of a quarter million with 225,000.

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