Tag Archives: hardware

JAPAN: Wii sales rise 300%

Nintendo’s 25th Anniversary Mario Wii has gone down a storm in Japan during its first week on sale. The new limited edition console – which comes bundled with a WiiMote Plus, a copy of New Super Mario Bros Wii and a digital copy of Donkey Kong – helped lift week-on-week …

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Reeves predicts Xbox/PlayStation hybrid

Never one to be afraid of making bold comments, former Sony Computer Entertainment president David Reeves has made his most startling prediction yet – that platform holders such as Sony and Microsoft could co-develop a console within the next decade. When you’re on the first-party side, you realise how really, …

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NPD: October down 4% year-on-year

American sales tracker NPD has announced that the US video games market was worth $1.07bn in October 2010 – that’s four per cent down on the same month in 2009. Year-to-date US gaming has made $11.07bn, eight per cent less than it had at this stage last year. Hardware saw …

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Move has exceeded Sonys expectations

The boss of SCEA’s Latin America division has said that PlayStation Move has exceeded the company’s expectations and that it’s struggling to keep up with demand in some key regions. Calling Move ‘a tremendous success’, Latin America general manager Mark Stanley told Industry Gamers: We’re actually continuing to catch up …

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Nintendo reveals US install bases

Speaking to investors at a BMO Capitals Market presentation in New York, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime has revealed NPD’s total sales numbers for the current home consoles in the US. As reported by GameSpot, the colourful exec says DS is the clear market leader with 43.1m units sold. …

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Holographic TVs in homes by 2017

Researchers at the University of Arizona have developed a new technology that can provide the fastest moving hologram image ever produced – and they predict the tech will be refined enough for use in the home within seven to ten years. 3DRadar reports that the device uses 16 cameras focused …

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PSP2 has 2x processing power of 360

At this stage it’s impossible to know what’s true and what’s not about Sony’s new PSP machines, but Kotaku has gone live with what it claims are further specs about the PSP’s true successor, the PSP2. It reports that the device houses twice the RAM of Xbox 360 – 1GB …

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THQ: New consoles last thing we need

The cost and turbulence caused by the transition to a new generation of hardware is not what the games industry currently needs, according to THQ president and CEO Brian Farrell. Instead, the exec thinks that expanding the current console audience through expansions such as Kinect and Move is very much …

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Kinect as core as Xbox Live

Microsoft hopes that the Kinect motion camera will one day be as integral part of the average Xbox 360 owner’s user experience as Xbox Live has become today. Indeed, speaking to GameSpot the corporate VP of Microsoft Game Studious Phil Spencer has claimed that in time there will no longer …

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MS bundles digital Alan Wake

Microsoft has launched a new console bundle that for the first time features one of its triple-A retail releases in digital form. Kotaku reports that a new Xbox 360 S 250GB SKU includes a traditional boxed copy of Forza 3 as well as a copy of psychological thriller Alan Wake …

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