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Sony has sent word that it has moved 1 million PS3′s worldwide in the past three weeks since the launch of its slimmer, less expensive models.

And with Sony announcing that the whole of Europe will have video service support by the end of 2010, that will probably help sales as well – we peeked into our very own crystal ball on that one.

“While maintaining cutting-edge features and functions, such as the ability to enjoy high quality interactive entertainment content including Blu-ray Disc games and movies as well as various content and services downloadable through PlayStation Network, the new PS3 is available at a highly attractive recommended retail price,” reads the press release.

The press release, loaded with happy thoughts, is past the break.

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Sony plans to make good on its promise to bring a video service to European PS3 users, and according to Kaz Hirai’s keynote at TGS, it will take place next year.

“We introduced a new video distribution service in the US, 300 movie titles at launch and 1200 episodes of TV drama,” Hirai told attendees. “Today we have more than 13,300 TV dramas and 23,000 movies, and this service is going to be expanded outside the US.

“We are planning on rolling this service out to all of Europe by the end of 2010.”

That’s good to hear. Finally Europe is getting some movies. UK will get it by the end of this year, though.

Hit this for the rest of the keynote’s news.

Sony bossman Kaz Hirai has shown attendees at his TGS keynote the new motion controller demoed at E3.

He didn’t demo it, but spoke a bit about it instead, showing a wand with changing colors of yellow, blue, and purple.

“The controller has image recognition and depth perception and it’s accurate and can trace user’s positions,” he told the crowd.

Hirai went on to say that Sony will continue to work closely with devs to help support the motion controller as it can attract “light” users.

He also said it has “a light vibration feedback”. Rawr. Day one purchase.

Hit this for the rest of the keynote’s news.

Photo courtesy of Joystiq.

PSP has now sold 52.9 million units of hardware, Sony boss Kaz Hirai confirmed in his TGS keynote this morning.

Hit this for the rest of the news from Hirai’s speech.

During big Kaz’s keynote at TGS 09, the Sony bossman told attendees that networking is very important for users, as in it creates experiences they can share with others via network communities, like SingStar and LittleBigPlanet.

“These networked communities are new experiences,” said Hirai. “This has made a new business model as well and this will help the game industry expand. The networked communities, that is Games are really the basis, the core, and can be combined with networks to increase the fun.”

“The question is what do we need to develop? We have to open our eyes and be sensitive to what users want.”

Glad to know Sony is listening aren’t you? Hit this for the rest of the news from Hirai’s speech.

LittleBigPlanet now has 2 million user-generated stages, Sony boss Kaz Hirai just said in his TGS keynote.

Players would need to spend six hours a day for 29 years to play every one, said the exec.

Hit this for the rest of the news from Hirai’s speech.

It’s on. Again. Tokyo Game Show kicks off this morning with a keynote from Sony superman Kaz Hirai.

His speech starts at 10.30am local time. That’s 2.30am BST, 3.30am CET, 6.30pm PST and 9.30pm EST. The US timings are for today, obviously.

We don’t have anyone “on the ground,” unfortunately, but we’ll be bringing you all the news as it happens. We’ll update this post with links to all the liveblogs as they appear.

Here you go:

• Eurogamer
• 1UP
• Kotaku
• Joystiq
• G4