The PS Vita has been on sale in the United States and Europe for ten weeks now, and despite its terrific features, the handheld has been nowhere near as successful as its predecessor when it comes to the U.K. market. In fact, with just 110,000 consoles sold, the device hasn’t even reached a third of

With its successor here in the form of the PlayStation Vita, it looks like PSP titles are being pulled from 25% of GameStop stores. This news is not shocking to anyone, surely. Sony’s PSP is aging quite a bit, and its performance can’t keep up with the demand of today’s market. It’s only natural that

Sony has begun pulling PSP titles from its PlayStation Store in an attempt to prevent hackers from executing unsigned code on the new PS Vita. Motorstorm: Arctic Edge and Everybody’s Tennis are the first titles to go, both of which can be used to run the “Vita Half-Byte Loader” (VHBL). Created by the hacker group

If you though the launch of the Sony PS Vita last month meant the Japanese company had ceased supporting the handheld’s predecessor, the PlayStation Portable, then think again. Sony has unveiled a new PSP-3000 for gamers in its homeland that features a new two-tone “Sky Blue/Marine Blue” paint job. Arriving on Thursday, April 26, in

The PlayStation Vita has finally arrived stateside, introducing an evolved handheld with some truly exciting technology and, quite frankly, a chip on its shoulder. We got a glimpse of the U.S. iteration at CES, and couldn’t wait to get a more extensive hands-on to see what the device is truly capable of. Seven years after the

Love or hate the used games and systems programs offered up by retailers around the world, it’s not hard to admit that trading in your old goods for new hardware is a strong way to save money. Typically, if you want a new handheld, you can trade in your now-old flavor to save some scratch.

The PlayStation Network will no longer be the PlayStation Network in less than 24 hours. Today, Sony announced that they will be rebranding their gaming network service as the Sony Entertainment Network. They spread the word to PSN users by way of email. Here is a bit of the email sent around to alert PlayStation

Andriasang has produced the Japanese hardware sales results for the week of 1/16/2012 through 1/22/2012. The numbers are, for most devices, lower than they were the week before. Here are the sales fixtures with last week’s numbers in parentheses: Nintendo 3DS – 80,960 (100,668) PlayStation 3 – 21,155 (30,332) PSP – 17,181 (22,538) PS Vita – 15,219 (18,361) Wii – 10,173 (14,179)

Another week has passed and hardware and software sales results in Japan have been reported by Media Create. Compared to last week, the statistics show a seemingly major drop in sales. That, however, may be a bit deceiving. According to Media Create, the Japanese data collection agency responsible for the hardware sales numbers you see

As Sony gets further away from the PS Vita’s street launch in Japan and closer to its worldwide launch in late February of this year, the company must surely be watching the new handheld’s sales performance in their home nation. While the PS Vita certainly isn’t bombing, this week’s stats indicate that the company’s newest

Despite the portable’s strong design and graphical prowess, it appears that the PlayStation Vita is staggering quite a bit in the early goings of its campaign at Japanese retail. Last week’s sales results coupled with recent news of unofficial price cuts performed by Japanese retailers suggests that something a bit fishy is going on in

The first full week at retail for Sony’s brand new handheld, the PS Vita, may not be looking too good. The fully featured device, according to sales statistics from Japanese news site 4Gamer.net, the system placed fifth amongst all gaming hardware currently on the market during the last week. Here are the sales results: Nintendo 3DS: 482,200

The PS Vita, thank the heavens, is region free when it comes to physical media. That means, for those out there importing Sony’s new handheld, that you’ll be able to play physical games from Japan when your device and the software you imported arrives. In fact, any user with any PS Vita will be able

Welcome to this brand-spankin’-new TechnoBuffalo feature we’re going to try and run once every week. We’ve got ourselves an outstanding, talkative community and we’re looking to harness that and spur it along with a weekly debate topic. So, every Friday, I’ll toss up a debatable challenge, you folks will vote and discuss. I’ll also be

What ho, gamers! We bring you good word of holiday savings abound at two separate retailers. Amazon and Toys “R” Us have both elected to do the gaming world a favor by celebrating the shopping season with, essentially, the same exact deal. Buy a single game from each store’s warehouse of titles, and you’ll be

While the PS Vita may be backwards compatible for PSP games, it does not come equipped with a UMD drive. Stay with me now, because this gets rocky… No UMD drive means that PSP games will need to be digitally downloaded to the PS Vita in order to be playable for gamers. Of course, if you want

This just in: the PS Vita is for games. Sure, that may sound like a really awkward statement to make for a portable gaming device, but it’s one Sony was probably smart to clarify. Gamers and consumers actively buying products when the PSP was enjoying its wealth of pre-launch hype will probably remember what Sony

Welcome to this brand-spankin’-new TechnoBuffalo feature we’re going to try and run once every week. We’ve got ourselves an outstanding, talkative community and we’re looking to harness that and spur it along with a weekly debate topic. So, every Friday, I’ll toss up a debatable challenge, you folks will vote and discuss. I’ll also be

Welcome, welcome, welcome to a weekend of sales that are more than likely guaranteed to bleed your back accounts completely dry. Gamers take heed: there have been what can only be described as an epic butt load of new games to discover throughout the course of 2010 and 2011. These have been years of both

It’s worth noting right off the bat that this news currently only applies to future PS Vita buyers residing in Japan. It comes by way of Sony’s Japanese office, and has not been announced for any western territories. For Japanese gamers that own a PSP UMD game library and are looking to play their titles

If you’re  looking to stock up on gaming goods for the holidays, be they gifts for yourself or loved ones, we’re here to bring news of a strong sale at Amazon. From now until November 5th in the United States, Amazon is holding a buy two, get one free sale on a ton of video

While Irrational Games and gamers in general are still far away from seeing a PS Vita version of BioShock come to life, Joystiq was able to sit down with Ken Levine and chat about the portable iteration of their adored IP. Levine is the Creative Director and Co-Founder of Irrational Games, and he is one of

Smartphones are killing mobile gaming, but not in the sense that might first come to mind. In order to mitigate the number of vitriolic diatribes composed in the comments section, let me first say I’m not speaking in a business sense. The truth is that smartphones are making gamers out of more and more people,

Placing download limits on 3G devices is nothing new, so Sony is certainly not violating a norm here by revealing that, at launch, the PS Vita will only allow users to download a maximum of 20MB when they are on 3G.  The news comes from an interview with a Sony Computer Entertainment rep done by

The Nintendo 3DS seems to be on course to have a strong holiday showing in Nintendo’s home country this year, despite its previously disappointing sales figures. The gain in momentum comes in large part due to the device’s massive price cut on August 12th (11th in Japan). Possibly just as integral to the system’s success