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Xbox 360 still rules the roost in the US, but sales for the December quarter were sharply down year-on-year. Revenue for Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division – home of Xbox and Windows Phone – was down 11 per cent to $3.8bn with operating income up 15 per cent to $596m. …
Read More »Microsoft Points currency conversion has Japan devs avoiding Xbox 360
Microsoft’s policy regarding the exchange of MS Points for currency is leaving Japanese developers on the short end compared to their peers, according to G.Rev boss Hiroyuki Maruyama. XBLAFans translated Maruyama’s statements on Twitter regarding the compensation discrepancy, citing it as one of the main reasons Japanese devs largely avoid …
Read More »Microsoft introduces Windows Phone 7.8 SDK
Final update brings WP8 UI to WP7
Read More »Microsoft Points ‘damaging’ for Japanese XBLA devs
Studios losing out due to Microsoft paying out revenues based on US dollar instead of the Yen
Read More »Microsoft Surface Windows 8 Pro launches next month
Microsoft has dated its next run at the tablet market. The firm announced its Surface Windows 8 Pro tablet will hit shelves next month, on February 9th. The device will be sold at Best Buy, Staples, and Microsoft Stores in both US and Canada at launch. The Pro model features …
Read More »Xbox 720 specs exposed… again
Look, we don’t really understand this stuff. But there’s noise coming from people that do which suggests this latest Xbox 720 tech leak is the real deal. The numbers come courtesy of VGleaks. We shan’t try and editorialise these – just take a look at the list: CPU:– x64 Architecture– …
Read More »Report: Next Xbox specs leaked
Next-gen console to feature 8 CPU cores running at 1.6ghz, 8gb DDR3 RAM and 12 shader cores
Read More »Microsoft predicted to sell Xbox division "to someone like Sony"
A US business analyst has claimed that Microsoft’s inability to adapt to market changes means that its failure is already inevitable”. And chief amongst the victims of this downfall will be its entertainment division, which is of course home to Xbox. The entertainment division will be spun off, sold to …
Read More »Making sense of the next-gen spec rumour mill
It’s easy to think up some numbers. That’s true whether you’re a journalist or a tech person trying to sound clever in front of a journalist. And whilst we wouldn’t accuse any of the authors behind yesterday’s pair of next-gen spec stories of making anything up, they were so wildly …
Read More »Report: PS4 50% more powerful than next Xbox
PS4 'has a run-capability' of 1.84 teraflops compared to the next Xbox's 1.23 teraflops
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