Search Results for: Nintendo Switch

FEATURE: The longer console lifecycle

Last year, Microsoft’s game software boss Phil Spencer offered a telling quote about the direction of the games industry to MCV. It wasn’t about motion controllers or new online services – it was about the market forces that are allowing those things to appear: Do we need a new console? …

Read More »

The longer console cycle

In the middle of last year, Microsoft’s game software boss Phil Spencer offered a telling quote about the direction of the games industry to MCV. It wasn’t about motion controllers or new online services – it was about the market forces that are allowing those things to appear: Do we …

Read More »

Where next for DS?

Yet by Nintendo’s reckoning there’s still life in the old DS yet. It’s hard to disagree. It was the UK’s best selling games hardware in 2009 – accounting for a massive wedge of the 2.7m handhelds sold in total. With Nintendo readying both bigger and better hardware now on a …

Read More »

30 Under 30 – 2009

Want to know who the trade’s hottest new talents are? Look no further. In this feature, MCV provides a guide – alphabetically, by surname – to some of the brightest young guns in the sector. 2009’s MCV 30 Under 30 is sponsored by OPM Recruitment, the leading specialist recruitment consultancy in …

Read More »

Iwata Q&A: Sales and projections

Nintendo has published Satoru Iwata’s QA session with journalists at a recent investor briefing. MCV has split the press conference into three digestable sections, focused on the following topics: Part 1: Sales and projectionsPart 2: New hardware, new peripheralsPart 3:Non-gamers and production Please explain your future vision. I believe that …

Read More »

The DSi at retail

Peter Willis – Games Buyer, DSGi "The DS has been a key product for us for the last couple of years and I am sure the DSi will be just as popular. It’s a great fit with our customers and we are anticipating big things. We have one of our …

Read More »

Platform Holder Focus: Microsoft

It sounds like Micosoft and Xbox had a good Christmas?We have been blown away with our success over that phase. I was bullish about it, I knew to expect success. Christmas 2008 was the biggest sales period in the history for the brand. Console sales were more than double on …

Read More »