A new study has shot to pieces the theory that the Wii’s limited grunt will stall its popularity. The study also reinforces how important it is for Sony to rectify the perception that there is a lack of good games for the PlayStation 3 (PS3).
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The Wii continues its domination of console sales charts, with the latest sales figures from Japan showing it outsold PlayStation 3 (PS3) by a factor of more than three to one last month.
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Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) says sales of the 60GB PS3 are surging in the US and Canada.
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Following weeks of industry speculation, Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) has officially announced the availability of a new 80GB PlayStation 3 (PS3) at online and brick-and-mortar retailers in the United States and Canada.

It’s widely recognized that if a gaming console is going to be a major player in the world market, it needs to make it in the intensely competitive Japanese market. Sony has received a major boost with the latest sales figures from Media Create showing that twice as many PS3s were sold in Japan in the last week of July, compared to the week before. Wii sales were down a little during the same period.
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World of  Warcraft (WoW) is coming to your mobile phone, but don’t get too excited — all you’ll be able to do is to bring up your character’s details.

The failure rate of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 next-generation gaming console reached an incredible 30% in the months after its launch, according to an Australian retailer.
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Nintendo’s Wii next-generation gaming console has broken yet another record, this time in Australia, having sold more than 100,000 units in the six months since its launch. This makes the Wii the fastest selling console to reach 100,000 unit sales, according to market research company GfK.
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Despite ongoing reports about the high failure rates of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 next-generation console, Todd Holmdahl, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of Gaming and Xbox Products Group maintains that the “vast majority of people are having just a great experience”.
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An increasingly desperate Sony has a new plan to save its floundering PS3 games console — cut jobs. This new plan is substantially different to its old plan. Now, instead of cutting jobs in Europe, it’s cutting them in the US.

Officially, Sony Computer Entertainment has cut jobs in the US in a bid to become more competitive and to “adjust to the industry”, according to a Sony spokesperson in Japan. The spokesperson said there were no plans to cut jobs in Japan.

“The goal is to reform the organization,” the spokesperson told AP.