The Office for National Statistics has refreshed its hypothetical shopping basket again.
Alongside the addition of liquid soap, cereal bars and garlic bread (it’s the future!) comes the arrival of the more gadgety Blu-ray player!
If you’re not sure what all this is about the ONS updates this rather huge ‘basket’ to reflect the average urban consumer’s spending habits.
This is then used to calculate the consumer prices index (CPI), which the Bank of England is furiously trying to keep below 3 per cent according to The Guardian.
Now that Blu-ray players are pretty affordable, with even top notch gear falling in the sub-£200 zone the HD tech now sits in the country’s basket in order to “capture price changes in this new expanding technology”.
Also joining the gadgety invasion are video game accessories thanks to the extra cash being spent by gamers on the likes of Wii Fit, GuitarHero, Rock Band and Singstar.
The ONS calls this a “relatively new market” – just wait til Xbox 360’s Project Natal and the PlayStation 3’s Move busts out!
Gone are disposable cameras thanks to “decreasing expenditure as digital compact cameras and mobile phone photography become increasingly popular”.
Do you think that this represents the average shopper?
Sony has been showing off its Nintendo Wii baiting motion controller. They’ve also officially named it: PlayStation Move.
Sony created a bit of a stir at the PlayStation presentation held at the Games Developer Conference in San Francisco.
The naming of the Move may have lost a number of people money if they’d been betting on Sony naming the motion controller Arc.
The PlayStation Move requires the use of a wand-like device a bit like a rounded Wiimote, with Sony’s Eye camera used as the sensor to track your movements – Sony are bragging that it’s the ‘most precise’ and ultra-sensory device of its kind.
The good thing is that the Move can be integrated into more established PS3 titles – games of choice for underling this was big-hitters SOCOM 4: US Navy Seals and Little Big Planet. LBP was shown using The Move Subcontroller (see gallery) as well as the main Move.
At the presentation Sony broke out a number of Move games which by all accounts looked pretty Wii-ey with the likes of ‘Sports Champions’ a sports compilation pack which includes such mini-games as archery, tablet tennis, and Gladiator Arena (duel fighting).
The PS3 Move will come in three bundles; the first packing the PS3 Move control for those who already own the Eye cam, or you can buy the Move with the Eye cam and a PS3 console. I reckon that the most popular will probably be the third option: The Move motion control with the camera and a game which Sony is saying will cost under $100 (£66).
No news regarding an official UK price but there is a rumbling that the August 2010 launch will be a global affair.
Have a gawp at the PlayStation Move and the PlayStation Move support controller in action below
The mythical PSP Phone as well as an iPad baiting tablet may well slip out from Sony – Well, that’s how the Wall Street Journal sees it.
Sony CEO Howard Stringer is looking towards Apple for inspiration in order to bring success back to Sony’s door.
The Japanese company is already making steps with its Sony Online [...]
EA’s CEO,John Riccitiello, accidentally let slip that Sony has been referring to the motion-sensing accessory as the “Gem” at a media conference in New York. Ooopsy!
During his speech Riccitiello said: “Natal [Microsoft's motion sensing game solution] and Gem, these are likely to bring new consumers into the marketplace”.
Sony Computer Entertainment of America director of [...]
You can’t have gotten through this week without hearing about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
I’ve not bothered mentioning it as everyone seemed to be doing that.
But I can’t fail mentioning this.
The latest episode of the popular shooty-shooty-death-kill game has experienced the biggest launch of an entertainment product in history!
It has managed to haul a [...]
The Sony PSPgo! hasn’t really taken the gaming scene by storm has it?
Perhaps a slew of pretty colours may persuade you.
A Destructoid reader, Artimecion, was surveyed by Hall & Partners Europe for their opinion of a proposed range of colourful PSPgo’s.
The large gallery of potential PSPgo flavours was actually part of a much longer survey [...]
Don’t you just love leaked info?
Well, thanks to MCV the above news was gathered via a tricky tipster who said that the information was apparently the result of behind-closed-door meetings right here in the UK between Microsoft and third party developers.
Microsoft will be manufacturing 5 million Natals for a worldwide launch in November 2010 [...]
Gamers love to have the latest and bestest and it shows that 25% of gamers surveyed said that paying for and downloading the digital only version is the way forward.
The International Gamers Survey, conducted by Today’s Gamers took in the opinion of 13,000 gamers across Europe and the United States and found that, on average, [...]
The Christmas battle has commenced and Nintendo gaffer, Reggie Fils–Aime, has thrown of his gloves and slapped the Sony PSPgo firmly across the chops.
Reggie is known for telling it like he sees it – while he was having a go at the go he also took a quick swipe at the iPod Touch.
The PSPgo has [...]
Sony’s new “premium” handheld gaming and multi-media device, AKA PSPGo has been dropped in price by another source here in the UK.
Yup, following Tesco’s preorder price point, none other than Amazon have done the deed and dropped the Sony PSP Go! Console to £199.
So – is that it for the “aspirational” pricing as several UK [...]
Here’s a chance to peep at the as yet un-aired official PS3 Slim ad.
The ad also confirms that the Sony PlayStation 3 Slim will hit the UK release on 1 September and cost £249.99.
The new console will come with a 120GB hard drive and be 32% smaller, 30% lighter and use 34% less power [...]
BLAZE have just released a bit of gadgety niceness that will allow PSP 3000 owners to charge, control and dock their Sony handheld gaming machine whilst watching movies or viewing photo slide shows on their wide screen TV!
The BLAZE 3 in 1 Video Charging Dock safely cradles the PSP 3000 console and hands you all [...]
That’s right – the Supermarket chain has cut Sony’s RRP for the handheld gaming jukebox that lands in October.
The PSP Go has a pencilled price tag of £225 but Tesco Direct is listing the PSP Go on its site at a pre-order price of £199.97 – that makes it at an 11 percent discount even [...]
I’ve covered next-gen comics a few times here on GadgetyNews in the form of Longbox, and Marvel’s motion comics but now here’s a follow-up to the PSP comic store news I broke in March.
The new digital reader service that’ll be bouncing onto both PSP3000 and PSP Go will allow their owners to access a [...]
Sony has finally confirmed the new version of the PlayStation 3 – the PS3 Slim, and it’ll go on sale worldwide in the first week of September.
It was unleashed at Sony’s keynote event at the GamesCom gaming conference last night in Germany after appearing for pre-order on a couple of American store sites.
The new console [...]
Kmart and Sears are gonna get some slapped wrists after letting slip pre-orders for the new PS3 Slim up on their sites …a number of hours before it was due to be announced at GamesCom.
Tsk-tsk!
Those pre-order listings claim that the PS3 Slim will have a Blu-ray player, 120GB hard disk, DualShock3 controller, and HDMI output [...]
So more news about the much rumoured slimline PS3.
We’ve seen spy shots, and even seen in a video clip but now a site from over the Channel has touted a release date for the PS3 Slim.
French site RTL reckons it’ll be here as early as this month but we’ve heard that before.
It says Sony [...]
Word has it that Sony has some touchscreen VAIO’s planned later this year which will drop around the same time as the release of Windows 7 which happens to have a more robust touchscreen support than Vista.
Sony is also beavering away at getting some content from the PlayStation Network right onto the [...]
The PS3 Slim has been bouncing around the interweblogosphere for a while now and there’s even been pictures of the new console and its packaging but no one really had an idea when, if at all, the thing would bounce into the stores.
Until now!
How about this month? How’s that grab ya?
The folk over at TechRadar spotted [...]
Rejoyce Europeand PS3 owners for you shall be getting a huge is about to get a massive boost on the music side of things thanks to VidZone’s official launch on the Sony console later on today via the Play Station Store.
VidZone is based right here in London town and offers a music video download service of around 10,000 videos to [...]
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