Hirai Turns to PlayStation 3 Playbook to Deliver Stringer’s Vision at Sony

When Sony Corp. (6758) ’s 2006 release of PlayStation 3 flopped because features installed by the engineer who founded the business made the games console too expensive, Chief Executive Officer Howard Stringer tapped Kazuo Hirai to turn the division around.

PlayStation®Vita, PlayStation®3, PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) and PlayStation®2 Retail Sales Exceed 6.5 Million Units ...

TOKYO , Jan. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCE) today announced that holiday season(*1) retail sales of the PlayStation®Vita (PS Vita) portable entertainment system, the PlayStation®3 ...

Sony PlayStation Vita free to play at select GameStop stores

More than 3,000 GameStop stores across the United States are now offering playable demo units of the Sony PlayStation Vita, which will be released in the U.S. later this month.

PlayStation Vita Japan sales slowest yet

PlayStation Vita sold another 15,219 units in Japan last week, but that figure marks the handheld's lowest ever weekly total. Sales fell from 22,538 the week before, according to Japanese chart company Media Create (via NeoGAF , although hardware numbers were largely down across the chart. 3DS sales shrank to 80,960, down almost 20,000 but still enough to outsell the rest of the hardware chart ...

Sony’s Hirai Vows to Deliver Stringer Vision With Cost Cuts

When Sony Corp.’s 2006 release of PlayStation 3 flopped because features installed by the engineer who founded the business made the games console too expensive, Chief Executive Officer Howard Stringer tapped Kazuo Hirai to turn the division around.

PlayStation Network renamed Sony Entertainment Network

Departing Sony CEO Howard Stringer speaks about the Sony Entertainment Network during Sony's press conference at CES 2012. (Credit: Photo by Christopher MacManus/CNET) PlayStation Network will soon be no more. The PSN logo. (Credit: SCEA) In a move toward unifying its online services, Sony is changing the name of the 4-year-old PlayStation Network to Sony Entertainment Network . "This helps us ...