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Strategy Analytics thinks the upcoming console generation will fall well short of the financial success enjoyed by our current machines. As well as predicting a 15 per cent decline year-on-year for console hardware sales in 2013, the firm also reckons that the expected peak in 2016 will still represent a …
Read More »PS4 and Xbox One could ship 10m by March, EA predicts
The PS4 and Xbox One could easily ship 10m units between them by March next year, EA COO Peter Moore believes. In an earnings call, viaSeeking Alpha, Moore said that indications he had received from Microsoft and Sony suggested the next-gen consoles could be in plentiful supply. "When I talked …
Read More »EA anticipates PS4 and Xbox One to ship 10m units by March
'Sony and Microsoft are proposing that this could be their best launches ever,' says Peter Moore
Read More »Sony reveals Tinie Tempah PS4 promotion
UK rap star Tinie Tempah is the focus of Sony’s latest bit of PS4 marketing. The 24-year old hip hopper appears in a new interactive documentary” in which viewers can use their smartphone to access competitions and PS4-related content. The video features a track from Mr. Tempah’s new album Demonstration. …
Read More »GAME offers chance to pay for Xbox One and PS4 early, jump the queue on launch night
Consumers are being offered the chance to jump straight to the front of the queue when buying either Xbox One or PS4. Its new Get Gaming Quicker scheme allows shoppers to head into their local GAME and sort their next-gen order ahead of the official launch date. At that time …
Read More »Titanfall to stay off PS4 for life; Respawn wasn’t aware of exclusivity deal
One of the most anticipated next-gen games will never be released on PS4. Titanfall, which is being made by the creators of Call of Duty at new studio Respawn, was revealed last year as a timed Xbox 360, Xbox One and PC exclusive. However, EA last night confirmed that the …
Read More »Blockbuster promises next-gen console pre-order refunds
Troubled UK retailer Blockbuster WILL refund customers who have paid for PS4 or Xbox One pre-orders. Having announced its intention to re-enter administration yesterday, the chain’s Twitter feed was responding to pre-order enquiries with what could easily have been interpreted as non-committal statements. However, it has now categorically stated that …
Read More »Blockbuster won’t honour PS4 or Xbox One pre-orders
Troubled retailer Blockbuster has confirmed that it will not be honouring PS4 or Xbox One pre-orders. The chain announced its intention to re-enter administration earlier today. It has this afternoon been asked a number of times on Twitter about next-gen console pre-orders, to which it has been replying: We are …
Read More »VIDEO: Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag compared on PS3 and PS4
Reviewers have heaped praise on Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, which has arrived on some formats today. Stores opened their doors last night for the release of the game on Xbox 360 and PS3. The game’s ‘second’ release will arrive on November 22nd when it is released for PS4, …
Read More »300MB day one patch needed to activate key PS4 features
A host of functionality for Sony’s PS4 will only be available to users once they have downloaded a 300MB patch. Amongst the features that will be locked until the patch is installed are Remote Play, gameplay sharing and broadcasting, multiple user login, voice commands, online multiplayer and even DVD and …
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