Couple of PlayStation 3 news today. First of all more sales figures from the much waited European launch, and the initial numbers stand at 600.000 units sold at the launch. This would mean that more than 60% of the initially shipped units are already sold, and the product still seems to be selling, so better grab yours now - they might be running short on supply at some point. Eurogamer.net also reports that Sony has no plans to release the rumoured 80GB model of the PS3

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Nintendo is worried about the increasing availability of so called mod chips for the Wii console, which enable users to make and use copies of their Wii games. The latest revisions of Wii will feature an altered circuit layout, that will make system level modification more difficult.

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Despite that fact that the media takes every opportunity to bash PlayStation 3 and Sony, the most powerful game console has sold nicely in the UK. The source reports that more than 165.000 units have been sold in the first two days, which is about the same as Xbox 360 (70k) and Nintentdo Wii (105k) combined. The good result of PS3 is not record braeaking though, as Sony was able to sell 185.000 units of PlayStation Portables during it’s launch weekend.

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Microsoft is refreshing the Xbox 360 in order to improve the competitive position against PlayStation 3, which has received rave reviews around the press as the global launch is progressing. The new edition has a more stylish black finnish, rather than the old white which looks more like a bread toaster than a gaming console. The new version is HDMI enabled and comes with a mighty 120GB HD.

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According to DigiTimes, 20x burners stands a good chance to become the mainstream writing speed of DVD burners in the fourth quarter of 2007. Thanks to HP and Dell which are adopting half-height 20x DVD burners to desktop PCs. Lite-On IT started volume production of 20x DVD burners in late 2006. Hitachi-LG Data Storage (HLDS), Toshiba-Samsung Storage Technology (TSST) and Pioneer are preparing to start volume production of 20x DVD burners in the second quarter.

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Nero is putting decent effort into the Linux market, which is slightly surprising as Linux has not been able push itself as an alternative to Windows any more than it has been in the past. Nero however seems to have some faith in the Linux community, as they announced a much improved Nero Linux 3. Most notable improvement is the support for Blu-ray and HD-DVD recording, which makes Nero Linux on of the first next-gen compatible recording applications for Linux.

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Quite surprisingly, Nero has released an update to their previous generation of Nero Burning ROM CD/DVD recording software suite. The new version is v6.6.1.15 and the update packages to each software component can be downloaded from Nero website.

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The developer of Nero CD-DVD Speed, Erik Deppe, supported our project and added out feature request to the latest v4.7.5.0 of his fine media testing software. In this new version the summary report of the Quality scan contains the information about the drive that the disc was recorded with: make, model, firmware verion. This piece of information is now parsed and added to the MediaBase, so from now on the version 4.7.5.0 (or newer) of CD-DVD Speed should be used. The new information adds a lot of functionality to the MediaBase as we can now search and produce reports for a specific DVD recorder.

Click here to enter MediaBase