Nintendo Wii
Think it’s difficult to find a Nintendo Wii now? Just wait until the holiday season. So says George Harrison, senior vice president of marketing and corporate communications for Nintendo of America, who said in an interview, "There is no guarantee that we are not going to have ‘out-of-stocks’ this holiday season. If you see one, buy [...]
E3 is the time of the season when a gamer’s mind turns to how cheap they’ll get their next console; that’s how ingrained summer price cuts are in the mind of the gaming consumer. Hot on the heels of the rumored denied confirmed $100 price cut on the Sony PlayStation 3 60GB (and launch of the 80GB [...]
As if we needed yet another piece of evidence that the Nintendo Wii is beating the Sony Playstation 3 in more ways that one. It seems that Nintendo’s console outsold Sony’s by a margin of 6 to 1. That’s 270,000 - 40,000 units. Whoa. Maybe Sony should consider getting out of the console game entirely? [...]
It’s no secret that Sony’s gaming division is suffering under the weight of Nintendo’s Wii-volution. Nevertheless, it’s still a bit shocking to hear the following statistic: The Wii is outselling the Playstation 3 in Japan by a margin of 5 to 1. For the month of May, that translates into 251,000 Wii consoles to a [...]
Accessing your favorite RSS feeds on your Nintendo Wii just a got a lot easier, thanks to Google. They have released a Wii optimized version of their popular feed aggregator, Google Reader. The newly revamped UI provides simplified navigation and a pared down feature set, making it perfect for use with the Wii’s limited browsing tools. The reader [...]
If your a Nintedo Wii Fanboy but are a little stingy with using your Wii Points to make a purchase through the Virtual Console, then your life just got a tad bit easier. You can find preview videos for some of the Virtual Console games on Nintendo’s own site including, Donkey Kong, F-Zero, Mario Kart [...]
In a shocking move, Nintendo appears to be courting soon-to-be-former Sony Computer Entertainment division boss Ken Kutaragi. Nintendo’s CEO stated during a press conference yesterday that he "would love to see Kutaragi join up with Nintendo." Kutaragi oversaw the development of the current generation Playstation 3. Many think that this poor management skills and bizarre [...]
It’s no secret that Sony has been losing money on every Playstation 3 that they put on the shelves. How much this strategy was going to effect their profit margin has been unknown, until now. Bloomberg is projecting massive losses for Sony’s 3Q earnings statement, $691 million in profit for the 2006 holiday season. This [...]
This is great article summarizing the rise and fall of the PS3. The rise you ask? Hype. The Fall? Hype. It goes into depth talking about how people want a console they can play with their families (Wii), how everyone has a 360 (Xbox), and how retarded the near $700 price tag is.
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Can’t decide on which next-gen console to buy? Granted we all can probably pick up a Wii if we wanted yet many of us don’t want to shell out the $400 and $600 or both on the Xbox 360 and PS3 respectively. Here is a nice little piece of literature that could help make that [...]