Nintendo has just released sales figures for its consoles, and the headline news is that the Switch, which launched back in 2017, is within touching distance of overtaking the Nintendo DS as the company's most successful console of all time.

As reported by our friends at Nintendo Life, the Switch now stands at 154.01 million consoles sold, which means it's less than 10,000 units away from surpassing the DS's total of 154.02 million.

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We've been following Obsolete Sony on social media for a while now, and with good reason; the account aims to celebrate the Japanese company's utterly remarkable impact on the world of consumer tech, from the Walkman to PlayStation and beyond.

It's a shame, then, that the account has been accused of using the work of others without proper credit or permission to generate revenue.

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If you've been following recent events in the world of video games, you'll be aware that big things are happening over at Xbox HQ.

Microsoft has been slowly but surely increasing the number of titles it releases on rival platforms, and this trend has arguably reached its apex with the news that Halo is coming to Sony's PS5.

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Sony's PS1 turned 30 at the end of last year, and this year marks the 30th anniversary of the console's launch in the West.

Former President of SIE Worldwide Studios for Sony Interactive Entertainment, Shuhei Yoshida, has been speaking to GamesIndustry.biz about the arrival of Sony's legendary 32-bit hardware.

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Chris Dring's utterly brilliant Game Business Show has just gone live with a bunch of comments from former Sony Computer Entertainment Europe staffers to celebrate 30 years of the console in the region, and one of the topics that came up was WipEout.

Released alongside the console in Europe, Psygnosis' anti-grav racer would become a crucial part of Sony's strategy when it came to winning over players and keeping Sega's Saturn at bay (even though, ironically, it would eventually come to that console too).

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Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell is one of the most iconic manga and anime franchises of all time, and has spawned movies, animated seasons, merchandise and – of course – video games.

The first game to be based on the media franchise was released on PS1 in 1997. Developed by Exact, the team behind the Jumping Flash series, the game is notable for having Shirow on board as the creator of the storyline as well as the art.

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Taki Udon's FPGA PS1 SuperStation One has been making headlines for a while now, thanks to its sleek looks, wide range of supported games and reasonable price – and now we can see what it will look like in the flesh.

Taki Udon has shown off a prototype of the console in its "Midnight Blue" colour scheme. He notes that the glossy surface isn't final, but says what we're all thinking – "It looks beautiful."

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PlayStation launched in North America 30 years ago today, and a new book is aiming to celebrate the 32-bit console's amazing legacy.

Penned by seasoned journalist Jeremy Parish, -30- | A PlayStation Retrospective will come "packed with commentary about the system’s biggest and most interesting games" and will trace "the console’s origins, launch, and rise to greatness over the course of more than 180 oversized pages."

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Update #2 : A release date for Claymatic Games' remake of the cult classic shooter Platypus has just been announced.

According to a new release date trailer, uploaded yesterday, the game will be published across PC, Mac, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch on September 18th, 2025.

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If you're someone who knows the layout of the PlayStation 1 title Castlevania: Symphony of the Night like the back of your hand and is looking for a new challenge, then you may be interested to learn about Alternate Scarlet Symphony.

This is a brand new mod from the developer nukesheart, which is a fresh reimagining of Konami's demon-slaying adventure that remodels Dracula's castle to feature new paths and secret passages, while also rebalancing several aspects such as spells and stats, introducing even more weapons to master and collect, enabling shield combos on any weapon (not just the Shield Rod), and revising the throwing system to impact MP-only.

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QUByte Interactive and Piko Interactive recently announced they are working together on a beat ' em up compilation, called Beat ‘Em Up Collection (QUByte Classics), which is scheduled to arrive on PC and consoles (Xbox, PlayStation, Switch and PC) on July 17th (thanks The Otaku Authority).

According to the announcement, this "retro-fueled compilation" will bring together seven "intense side-scrolling action games" from the Commodore Amiga, Sega Mega Drive / Genesis, and SNES, which focus on everything from "ancient legends to dystopian futures".

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The PS2 emulator PCSX2 has just been updated to version 2.4.0, bringing with it a ton of exciting new improvements that aim to make the experience of emulating your favourite titles on computers (Window, Linux, and Mac) even better.

The new update carries from last year's update PCSX2 2.0, which the PCSX2 team describes as their "biggest single release to date", and includes the implementation of "render target in render target" (RT in RT) support, which successfully fixes a bunch of issues across a number of games. This applies to two-player split screen games such as Jak X: Combat Racing (which previously showed a mostly black screen in right hand side of the screen), as well as titles like Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Drakengard, and Hitman: Contracts.

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Back in 1986, Sega released Quartet in arcades. A moderate success, it took its title from the fact that up to four players could take part, and would later be ported to the Master System (minus the four-player option) and other home formats (on a side note, the Sega Mark III release was known as Double Target: Cynthia no Nemuri in Japan).

Hitting Steam and consoles this year, Quartet (2025) isn't the same game, but it does share the same name. Developed by Something Classic Games, it's a spiritual successor 2017's Shadows of Adam, and allows players to control "eight characters across four stories that gradually merge into one epic quest."

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Remarkably, it's been almost 15 years now since the last all-new entry in the Ape Escape series, PlayStation Move Ape Escape (which launched in Japan in 2010).

And ever since then, the series's mascot Pipo Saru has pretty much found themselves demoted to rereleases and cameo roles in other Sony-related titles (such as Astro Bot and Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater).

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While it wasn't as successful as Sony (then known as Sony Ericsson) hoped, the Xperia Play made one heck of a splash when it was first announced.

Combining the promise of smartphone technology with the company's PlayStation brand, the Android-based handset boasted slide-out physical controls and support for a range of PS1 classics and was also a popular choice with emulation fans.

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You've probably never heard of Ai to Yūjou no Neko Monogatari: Jingle Cats - Love Para Daisakusen no Maki – we certainly hadn't until this week.

Released on Sony's console, Mac and Windows PC in 1998, this Japanese exclusive is based on novelty albums of the same name produced by Mike Spalla – Jingle Dogs and Jingle Babies are part of the same series.

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If you're based in the UK and were alive when the original PlayStation launched, then you'll almost certainly be aware of the various 'Demo' discs which were bundled with the system and given away with copies of the UK's Official PlayStation Magazine.

These discs were essential items when it came to deciding what game you'd be spending your pocket money on next, but they were also audio-visual treats packed with amazing tunes, stunning footage and even some rather freaky 3D effects.

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When Sega began its work on creating the 32-bit Saturn console, it assumed it would have the market all to itself, more or less; Atari's Jaguar and the 3DO were struggling, while Sega's Mega Drive / Genesis still enjoyed a decent share of the global market.

Of course, newcomer Sony threw a spanner in the works by releasing its PlayStation system at the same time—a console which, in many ways, offered a superior experience and, in the fullness of time, would garner significantly more third-party support, outselling Saturn by a ratio of ten-to-one.

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Over 30 years ago, North American magazine EGM made meme history when it published a screenshot of FromSoftware's King's Field running on the then-unreleased PlayStation console.

The screenshot featured a pair of crudely rendered skeletons, which, by modern standards, look pretty basic. However, back in 1994, they were considered state of the art, as the famous caption—"The PlayStation can produce mind-boggling effects"—attests.

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Although there are notable exceptions—Tetris and Populous being two that spring to mind—it wasn't always easy to sell Western-made games to Japanese players back in the 1990s.

While North American and European gamers would gleefully lap up Japanese output, games moving in the opposite direction often failed to make an impact. That's probably why Sony Computer Entertainment took a rather unique approach with its commercials for early PS1 releases WipEout and Destruction Derby, billing them explicitly as British-made software.

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At this year's Game Developer's Conference, a senior build engineer at PlayStation named Garrett Fredley gave a talk, entitled Preserving the Past for the Future: A PlayStation Case Study.

The talk, which has since been written up by GamesRadar staff (who were in attendance), centered on the problem of how you go about preservation if you have over 30 years' worth of history to capture, record, and archive. And the solution sounds like something out of an old science fiction novel or an Indiana Jones film.

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When League of Legends concept artist Anh Dang came up with the crab-like "PlayStacean" console, she couldn't possibly have realised that this amusing pun would, one day, become a fully functional console—but that's precisely what has happened.

Modder GingerOfMods has taken this concept artwork and created a playable system, complete with claw-like controllers and "a handful of mods".

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Ten years ago, the mythical 'Nintendo PlayStation' became a solid reality when a prototype was discovered. This would eventually change hands for $360,000 in 2020, and was believed to be the only surviving example of the unreleased system—until now, that is.

Japan-based videographer and photographer Julian Domanski recently posted that he got to "fondle" a second prototype during a meeting with former Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Ken Kutaragi himself—also known as the Father of PlayStation.

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We're used to seeing games displayed in ultra-widescreen these days, but back in 2001, this was a less common sight, as the vast majority of players were still gaming in a 4:3 aspect ratio on their CRT TVs.

Not wishing to be limited by the display technology of the period, Polyphony Digital coded a mode into Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec that allowed players to access a super-immersive mode using i.Link / FireWire connectivity.

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8BitMods' amazing MemCard Pro range is already an essential purchase for any self-respecting retro gamer, but the company has just added yet another reason to pick one up for your PS1.

Thanks to the latest firmware update, both the MemCard Pro and MemCard Pro 2 have the ability to function as a wireless Bluetooth receiver, so you can connect compatible Bluetooth pads.

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