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This article was written on October 16, 2007 by CyberNet.

When Halo 3 broke the record in the video game industry by selling over 1 million pre-orders, we knew September was going to be a huge month for Microsoft. Not only did they sell millions of dollars worth of Halo 3 games, they also sold millions of dollars worth of Xbox 360 consoles.  The official numbers that detail how many Xbox 360 consoles actually sold won’t be released until Thursday (October 18th), but we’ve got a pretty good idea at just how great of a month it was thanks to Wedbush Morgan Analyst, Michael Pachter.

According to Pachter, Halo 3 helped sell 450,000 Xbox 360s in the month of September. The number he’s given means that the Xbox 360 outsold the Wii by 25,000 units. That doesn’t mean that the coming months will be all downhill for Microsoft though. Pachter went on to say “Although we think that sales of Halo 3 accounted for virtually all of the growth during the month, we think that the game drove hardware sales and positions the industry for even greater sales in November and December, when many Halo players will be ready for a new challenge.  We are optimistic about software sales through the end of the year.”

Here’s the breakdown of the predicted sales for the month of September:

1. Xbox 360 – 450,000 units
2. DS – 430,000 units
3. Wii – 425,000 units
4. PSP – 252,000 units
5. PS2 – 222,000 units
6. PS3 – 150,000 units
7. GBA – 65,000 units

Another factor that probably helped the Xbox take the #1 spot is that conveniently timed price cut. Back in early August Microsoft dropped the price of the Xbox 360 console by 50 dollars.  Considering Halo 3 costs a little over $50 for the standard edition, consumers were able to get the console plus the game for what the system originally cost. Not a bad deal!

In general, software sales are expected to reach $655 million this year which is 47% higher than in 2006.  With both the PS3 and the Wii launched late last year, it’s no surprise that 2007 will have been so successful. Pachter also predicts that a PS2 price cut is possible before the end of the year, and his guess is that it will be priced at $99! If that’s true, I imagine we’ll see software sales increase even further thanks to those who just can’t pass up a good deal on a console!

Source: CrunchGear

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Sony’s Crackle has had a more successful life so far than its previous iteration as Grouper, streaming movies, TV shows and shorts to various devices since launching back in ’07 and announced today its full library will be streaming to the PS3, Roku boxes, Sony Blu-ray players and Bravia TVs. Expanding full access from just the Google TV (there’s also an Android app that currently streams some of the items) it’s taking credit as the only provider offering free full length flicks including Ghostbusters, Bad Boys, A Few Good Men and more for free on these platforms. The drawbacks are video that tops out at 480p standard definition and Hulu-style commercial interruptions but if you absolutely must watch Weekend at Bernies II without spending any money it is an option — at least, as long as the PS3 browser doesn’t crash with an out of memory error like it did for us. It did work better on more capable platforms, so check out the full details in the press release after the break.

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Even big corporations like Sony can find it hard to escape their reputation. The company reached out to Koushik Dutta, an Android hacker known for being the main developer behind the custom-firmware app ROM Manager and the firmware hack Clockwork Mod, and invited him to interview for a job as a software engineer. But, thanks to Sony’s ongoing legal battle with fellow hacker George Hotz (Geohot), Dutta snubbed the company, saying that he “could not in good conscience work for Sony.” Ouch. Looks like Dutta isn’t too enthusiastic about helping out with the Xperia Play.

Thankfully for him, Dutta doesn’t seem to be exactly hurting for a job. AppBrain, an app store for Android, shows the $5 premium version of his ROM Manager app selling between 50,000 and 250,000 copies.

Sony sued Geohot and other hackers earlier this year for releasing the system’s root key, allowing people to run programs on the device not authorized by the company. The fight between the corporation and the hacker is anything but a typical boring lawsuit, captivating the Twitter-verse and leading to Hotz’s rap debut. Today’s news only goes to prove that this will be a very involved, very public battle for Sony to fight.

[via Geekosystem]