PlayStation 4

AMD (NYSE: AMD) is poised to make billions on the sale of Sony's (NYSE: SNE) upcoming game console, PlayStation 4. The chipmaker, which has a long heritage within the game industry, built graphics processors for Wii, Xbox 360 and GameCube. AMD is currently producing chips for Nintendo's (OTC:...

Could Sony (NYSE: SNE) ship a record-breaking number of consoles this holiday season? According to DigiTimes, Sony anticipates that PlayStation 4 will reach annual shipments of 16 million units in 2013. If true, this would make it the largest launch of any console. DigiTimes' sources claim that...

Between Nintendo's (OTC: NTDOY) Wii U, Valve's Steam Box, Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) mysterious console and Sony's (NYSE: SNE) PlayStation 4, the game industry is about to get very crowded. More than 240 million individuals purchased the last three game consoles (Wii, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3),...

In Star Wars, Yoda famously said that there were only two Sith Lords -- "No more, no less; a master and an apprentice." His words held true for the game industry for several years. Sega and Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) successfully prevented Panasonic (NYSE: PC), Philips, NEC Corporation and other...

The official word from Sony (NYSE: SNE) is that PlayStation 4 will not ship until the holiday season. According DigiTimes, Taiwan supply chain makers are set to begin shipments as soon as the second quarter of the year. Delta Electronics (a power supply maker), Cheng Uei Precision Industry (which...

Now that Sony (NYSE: SNE) jumped the gun and unveiled PlayStation 4 ahead of the Electronic Entertainment Expo, all eyes are turning to Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) to see what the company will do next. As of this writing, the Windows maker is rumored to be developing everything from a handheld Xbox to...

AMD (NYSE: AMD) is the unlikely beneficiary of Sony's (NYSE: SNE) brand-new game console, PlayStation 4. The company is providing a single-chip custom processor for the console, which includes an eight-core x86-64 AMD "Jaguar" CPU and a next-gen Radeon graphics engine. AMD has a long-standing...

Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: EA) was mysteriously absent from last night's PlayStation 4 unveiling. Activision (NASDAQ: ATVI), Capcom and Ubisoft showed off new games, while Square Enix teased attendees with a tech demo for the kinds of gaming experiences it would like to develop. (Square Enix also...

Last month, Benzinga detailed the top five reasons why PlayStation 4 will play used games. Now Sony (NYSE: SNE) has confirmed that its next game console will definitely not attempt to stop consumers from playing used software. During an interview with Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida,...

Sony (NYSE: SNE) took the veil off its fourth game console this evening during a two-hour event that included a cornucopia of software demonstrations -- most of which were for actual games (not tech demos). In fact, Square Enix was the only company that came to Sony's event with nothing more than a...

Sony (NYSE: SNE) is set to make a major announcement today regarding the future of the PlayStation business. According to The Wall Street Journal, Sony will unveil the company's next console, which will include a streaming game service. Reuters concurs with that report. Earlier this week Sony...

Sony (NYSE: SNE) is expected to unveil the fourth PlayStation during an event next week, but Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is choosing not to comment about any future hardware developments. "All I'll say about our current and future investment is [that it is] about doing things that are big and premium...

It might be hard to tell when looking at the sales figures for Nintendo's (OTC: NTDOY) latest game machine, but the console game market is actually growing. In fact, it has been growing for more than 20 years. According to VGChartz, which chronicles the lifetime sales figures for almost every...

PlayStation 3 set records as one of the most expensive game consoles ever released. When Sony (NYSE: SNE) shipped the console in 2006, it offered two different packages, one at $500 and another at $600. Since the former was only available in limited quantities, most consumers ended up buying the...

Sony's (NYSE: SNE) latest handheld game machine sold less than seven million units during its first 12 months at retail. That is less than 10 percent of the 75 million PlayStation Portable units that Sony has sold since 2005. In order for PS Vita's sales to catch up to PSP, Sony would have to sell...