Gamers Evolved

Sony is excited to see that they have sold over 1 million of their PS3 consoles in the UK since it has been released in March of 2007. They were able to reach this goal after only 47 weeks. This has broken the old record of 50 weeks that it took for the PS2 to reach this 1 million mark.

Sony also managed to beat Microsoft’s Xbox 360, which took 60 weeks, but comes nowhere near the runaway success of Nintendo’s Wii which reached a million UK sales in just 38 weeks. Entertainment market research firm ChartTrack also revealed that the PS3 has been outselling the Xbox 360 for the past month, although they were “neck and neck over the Christmas period”.

Xbox 360 gamers were ready and waiting on Xbox Live – the online network – for the Devil May Cry 4 demo to be available on January 24th. If Capcom was worried about it being a big hit they can worry no more. Not even a month has passed and yet there have been over 1 million downloads.

Capcom has been keeping track of the progress and has stated that it has been downloaded an average of 25,000 times per day. Additionally, it said that the game is a hit at retail, with reorders from major retailers days after the title’s release.

Those of you who don’t yet have the Xbox 360 because the price is too high will be happy to know that Microsoft is trying to launch a cheaper version of the console. The only problem is that it will only be for those who live in Japan.

Microsoft knows just how popular the gaming console is – but for some reason Japan is the only one who has been refusing to give it the fame and satisfaction that it covets from everyone and has been experiencing a severe loss in sales on that end of the world. Not surprisingly the Nintendo Wii has been dominating.

Those of you who have been waiting patiently to hear some news about when the Grand Theft Auto IV would be released will have to wait no longer. Rockstar Games has stated that the much anticipated game will be released April 29th.

“We are so excited to be releasing ‘Grand Theft Auto IV,’” Sam Houser, founder and executive producer of Rockstar Games, said in a statement. “We’ve pushed ourselves very hard to make something incredible, and hope the game sets a new benchmark for interactive entertainment.”

Rumors are flying all over the internet that Microsoft may be planning on formatting the Xbox 360 for Blu-ray instead of the usual HD-DVD that they are known for. We would love to say that we know exactly if this is true or not.

Albert Panello – the group marketing Manager for Xbox was apparently quoted saying that Xbox would be sticking with HD-DVD format:

It should be consumer choice; and if that’s the way they vote, that’s something we’ll have to consider … I fundamentally don’t think this has a significant impact on Xbox 360 versus (Sony’s) PlayStation 3 … With the PlayStation 2, DVD was a big part in the beginning, but over time, people were not buying it as a DVD player after the first year or two.