Tag Archive for 'consoles'
Surprise, Surprise… Not really! Nintendo is doing very well with Wii sales during January with roughly 436,000 units sold ourselling XBOX 360 and PS3 by far. Perrin Kaplan, Nintendo’s VP of marketing credit Wii’s success towards Wii’s ability to attract additional and different customers rather than just season gamers.
According to DailyTech, Xbox 360 sold only [...]
I guess I’m not the only one who wants to get thinner; Sony is working on a next revision of PS3 that will adopt slimmer form factor. The new PS3 will also move to a 45nm chips by 2008.
The current bulky PS3 has a nice design but a little bulky and a slimmer PS3 would [...]
If you’re one of the very, very few people lucky enough to have snagged a PlayStation 3 at this stage of the game, Sony has just released their latest firmware update, designed to bring new features and bugfixes to your ubermachine. One thing of note: the new update does NOT take care of the 1080i [...]
Exactly what qualifications do you need to be a tech analyst? In fact, who goes to their careers adviser at school and says “I’d like to be an analyst when I grow up”? It’s that curious blend of make-believe, assumption and research that manages to engender both hope (because they never foresee boring stuff) and [...]
Yesterday, we posted an impressive video showing how the Nintendo Wii’s Wiimote can be used as a Windows mouse. That isn’t just restricted to Redmond disciples anymore; now Apple users can enjoy the same hack for their happy little operating system. I say give these guys another year and the Wiimote will be the most [...]
According to Sandvine’s, a company that helps broadband service providers, they have identified an 80% increase in the number of XBox Live users in the month of November. They are counting the start of November as the 7th because the surge in XBox Live usage occurred after the release of Gears of War and five [...]
If you’ve been waiting for Sony’s uber-racing sim Gran Turismo to finally hit shelves again, we have some good news and some bad news. Gran Turismo HD, a souped-up Gran Turismo 4 that was supposed to allow players to buy other cars via the PlayStation Network, has now been reduced to a “concept demo” that [...]
Well that didn’t take long. Less than three weeks after its debut in the US and Canada, our first group of hackers have discovered a way to rip Blu-ray movie discs to their PlayStation 3’s hard drive using Yellow Dog Linux 5.0, which is the first step to completely defeating the Blu-ray’s “improved” security features. [...]
Wii owners everywhere have a trifecta of games that everyone seems to be waiting for. We’ve gotten one part so far, Twilight Princess, and we’ve been waiting for Metroid Prime 3 and Super Mario Galaxy to hit early next year to make everything else in life seem unimportant by comparison. While Metroid seems to still [...]
Bad news for everyone looking forward to getting their hands on Bungie’s Halo 3 Multiplayer Beta this upcoming spring: Microsoft has revealed that the test will not be a true public beta; instead, users will need to “register for the opportunity to be one of the select members.” So, unless you’re quick, it’s possible that [...]
