Yesterday, Sony issued a dispiriting April-June earnings report, which showed quarterly PlayStation 3 sales fell from 1.6 million to 1.1 million. The PS3's slowdown is ironic, as it appears to have ...

iSuppli breaks down the Playstation 3 and sees cost savings for Sony. But even still, can Sony drop the price of the console to compete against cheaper alternatives? Don Reisinger CNET contributor Don ...

In an effort to increase development for PlayStation 3, Sony today lowered the cost of its PS3 development kit to $2,000, the second price cut the company has made since demo units began shipping to ...

In the weeks since the PS3's worldwide launch, it's been opened up and smashed. Now it's being broken down into its component parts by iSuppli, a well-respected group of technology analysts. They've ...

Last week’s excitement over Sony dropping the price of the PS3 in Japan may prove to be short lived with news coming out of the Tokyo Game Show that some PS3 games may cost nearly $100. Sources ...

SAN FRANCISCO—The second generation of Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 gaming console features a new design and carries a bill of materials (BOM) that is 35 percent lower than the original model, according ...

TOKYO--Sony plans to lower the production cost of its PlayStation 3 game consoles by using less expensive chips, aiming to turn the operations profitable between September and next March, the Nikkei ...

Sales of the PS3 are down year over year, according to Sony's latest financial reports. However, Sony reports that the cost of the PSN outage will be "smaller than the original cost estimate." Sales ...

While the PlayStation 3 cost Sony somewhere around $800 when it was launched in Nov. 2006, Sony has told Business Week that the PS3 now costs about $400 to produce—or right around the retail price of ...

We’ve always been able to see the amazing value packed into the PlayStation 3, so much so, we’ve dedicated countless hours of our lives informing all of you about our favorite high definition console ...

Expect a more conservative design. Sony's (NYSE: SNE) PlayStation 3 was a design marvel when released in 2006 -- a bargain supercomputer that was sold for well below cost. That won't happen anymore.

Sony Computer Entertainment has cut the cost of materials used to make its PlayStation 3 game console by 35 percent, according to market research firm iSuppli. The components used to produce the ...