Monthly Archives: January 2009

According to research firm iSuppli, PS3′s manufacturing costs are now down 35 percent compared with 2007.

Back then the machine’s components cost $690.23, but as of October last year the console cost $448.73 to manufacture.

Sony is therefore still making a loss on every console sold.

However, “PS3 may be able to break even in 2009 with further hardware revisions,” iSuppli said in a statement.

More over at GamePro.

By Mike Bowden

More people in the US played on their PlayStation 2′s than any other console in 2008, Nielsen’s reported.

PS2 users accounted for 31.7 percent of the nation’s game time, the firm said in a report. Xbox 360 came in second with 17.2 percent, followed by Wii with 16.2 percent of time spent staring at a screen.

The research company also claimed that the first gen Xbox got more playtime than PS3 last year, with the former taking up 9.7 percent of gamers’ lives, versus the latter’s 7.3 percent.

As for PC games, World of Warcraft was 2008′s most played title, seeing an average of around 671 minutes played per week.

Loads more over at Gama.

By Mike Bowden

A VG247 source has claimed Traveller’s Tales is working on a Lego version of Rock Band for EA.

Our chatterer assured us the information was “100 percent correct”.

UK developer TT Games confirmed in a Radio One interview with EGTV’s Johnny Minkley last night that a Lego game is to be released this year, but refused to confirm its identity.

Minkley speculated the title was a second Indiana Jones game during the show.

Traveller’s Tales was rumoured recently to be working on Lego Harry Potter, talk Warner slapped with a swift “no comment“.

A Lego Potter game would have to be a collaboration with EA, as the publisher owns game rights to the Hogwarts hyper-franchise.

Traveller’s Tales – which is owned by Warner Bros – has yet to confirm future projects, having released Lego Indiana Jones and Lego Batman in 2008.

EA US was unavailable for comment at the time of writing.