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 The recent PlayStation video about the "simulated" technology in development, discussed between AMD and Sony engineers that will power the PlayStation 6 was interesting from a geek point of view. But from a gameplay perspective, there is - IMO - no need for a PlayStation 6 for another few years. Especially with the limp Xbox is-it-isn't-it launch .  April 2026 Update:  Compatibility with PS5 and PS4 games seems to be locked-in, as anything the PS6 full fat hardware the portable versions should be able to do as well, with near-invisible trade-offs at the silicon level.  Prices are firming up too with estimates around the PlayStation 6 handheld at between $500 to $700 and a PlayStation 6 at $700 to $1,000, depending on the deepening silicon crisis and Sony's budgeting wizards.  Only a few developers around the world could afford to take advantage of it for AAA+ budget games. Everyone else is still barely cutting the skin of the PS5's power, and most western smal...

Latest UK Vita chart, new faces and old

While still failing to bother the all-formats chart much, Tearaway is stuck by pritt-stick to the top of the UK Vita chart, joined by its Media Molecule buddy LBP. Injustice fails to crack the top 10, arriving at 12 (despite that super-cheap Argos deal, perhaps I'm the only one that brought it).

On the plus side, only 4 of the top 12 are over a year old now, but Sony needs to get its developers and partners moving if there's to be much life here in 2014, with mostly some Japanese imports coming our way.




On the hardware front, the PS4 launch has finally dethroned the PSP as the most successful console launch in the UK, that was eight years ago, how times have changed! PS4 sold over 250,000 to the PSP's 185,000 (And how did Sony manage to screw that one up?) What's alarming is it managed that with no killer app game and mostly rehashed titles. Guess they'll think the same way for the PS5 and the Xbox 2.

1 = TEARAWAY SONY 1 2
2 + LITTLEBIGPLANET PS VITA SONY 3 63
3 - LEGO MARVEL SUPER HEROES WARNER 2 3
4 = FIFA 14 EA SPORTS 4 10
5 + BATMAN: ARKHAM ORIGINS WARNER 6 6
6 - KILLZONE: MERCENARY SONY 5 13
7 + ASSASSIN'S CREED III LIBERATION UBISOFT 8 57
8 - RAYMAN LEGENDS UBISOFT 7 13
9 + VIRTUA TENNIS 4: WORLD TOUR EDITION SEGA 11 81
10 = CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS DECLASSIFIED ACTIVISION 10 55
11 + ANGRY BIRDS STAR WARS ACTIVISION 16 3
12 new INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US ULTIMATE ED. WARNER 1

Leisure software charts compiled by Chart Track, (C)2013 UKIE Ltd

Amazon's Best Sellers (as of Monday AM):

1 Tearaway
2 FIFA 14
3 Killzone Mercenary
4 Assassin's Creed 3 Liberation
5 Virtua Tennis
6 Uncharted Golden Abyss
7 LEGO Marvel Super Heroes
8 LEGO Batman 2
9 Batman Blackgate
10 Rayman Legends

PSN Top Sellers (Who knows when they update this list?)

1 Amazing Spiderman
2 LEGO Marvel Super Heroes
3 Killzone Mercenary
4 WRC 4
5 The Walking Dead

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