Microsoft recently announced their price cuts on the Xbox 360, effective today, but what is motivating them? Microsoft’s not going to make much additional money by passing off the savings to the customer but they will, more than likely, sell a bunch of great new Xbox 360‘s to a new crowd of gamer. Motivation? Sony. […]
Microsoft Shoots for Number Two In Console War
September 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: Console Games · Editorial · Holiday · Microsoft · Nintendo · Sony · Wii · Xbox 360
PS3 and 360 Price Cuts, Before Holidays End
August 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
A lot of people have purchased the Xbox 360 and a growing number have had new interests in the PlayStation 3. The summer time is winding to an end and fall will bring us a new host of video games and reasons to keep playing our current generation consoles. Many analysts and industry leaders believe […]
Tags: Editorial · Holiday · Microsoft · playstation 3 · Sony · Xbox 360
MGS4 Quickly Falls of Top Titles, NCAA Football 09 Takes Lead
August 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment
The month, June 2008, Metal Gear Solid 4 takes number one on the NDP figures with 774,600 individual units (over 1-million if you include bundles), in July… they didn’t even make the top ten figure. What the heck? NCAA Football 09 for the Xbox 360 took number one with 397,600 games sold, nothing close to […]
Tags: Industry News · playstation 3 · Wii · Xbox 360
July NPD Unit Sales: Wii On Top… Again
August 16th, 2008 · No Comments
Believe this, Nintendo and their Wii console takes another month as top seller. The only product that moves more hardware than the Wii is the DS. As a gamer, it’s hard to understand how the Wii product continues to sell like this with the least supported game library on the planet. The DS is completely […]
Tags: Industry News · Nintendo · playstation 3 · Sony · Xbox 360
Red Steel 2 and Wii Motion Plus
July 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment
In an “unexpected” move, Ubisoft has opted to utilize the 1:1 accuracy of the Wii Motion Plus add-on device for the Wii remote in their next Red Steel sequel, currently called Red Steel 2. It may be most gamers consider this an unexpected move because they thought the series would be dead after the first […]
Tags: Accessories · Industry News · Nintendo · ubisoft · Wii
Nintendo’s Wii Storage Issues
July 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Nintendo’s WiiWare channel is reported to be doing well (says Nintendo) and their Virtual Console games continue to invoke nostalgic downloads. Now, as Networked based gaming slowly starts to crawl on the console Nintendo has begun to realize they’re going to hit some storage issues. The 512MB of internal flash memory is a bit lacking, […]
Tags: Nintendo · Wii · WiiWare
Sony Says Competition is Good
July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
It seems the console maker who’s trailing in sales typically says how great competition is and how it’s great for the consumer. Sony’s not leading the console race, as of now, and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe president David Reeves stated in a recent interview: The winner, he said, is the consumer. “That’s why we are […]
Tags: Microsoft · Nintendo · playstation 3 · Sony · Wii · Xbox 360
Dead Rising On Wii, Does Anyone Care?
July 20th, 2008 · No Comments
Dead Rising is being ported to the Nintendo Wii, only two years after the original title. In Japan, they’ve changed the name to Dead Rising: Zombies Sacrifice, perhaps to make it sound like a different game. The game, in fact, is said to have some difference from the original title. These changes are ‘upgrades’ from […]
Tags: Industry News · Nintendo · Wii
Nintendo’s Not Talking To You, But Your Grandmother
July 19th, 2008 · No Comments
Miyamoto said Nintendo used E3 as a platform for spreading the word to a broad audience based on the media present at the event, they’re not speaking to the core audience. So, if you’re a core audience gamer and you were confused on why Nintendo didn’t build their presentation to be all glitz and glamor, […]
As Seen On TV – Casual Game Label (Wii and DS)
July 19th, 2008 · No Comments
A 3D version of Deal or No deal sound desirable to you? Perhaps you’re a game show fan and just can’t get enough Howie, if so, you’re in luck. Koch Media announced their new casual games label As Seen On TV which will bring popular TV brands to the console. At first we were thinking […]
Tags: Casual Games · DS · Press Release · Wii