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Blu-Ray Xbox 360 Coming soon, maybe

James Allan Brady, Apr 2nd 2008 Discuss [5]

The real headline was that such a system might sell at a loss, but looking back its been Microsoft’s strategy to sell their systems at a loss just to be the cheapest in hopes that game sales would eventually push them back into the black, and they always have, as far as I know. Problem is that Microsoft is being quoted between $95-$100 per drive, OEM, for the BD-ROM drives; a price they couldn’t really make up without raising the price of the system by a lot, especially considering they are only putting out $18-$20 per drive for the DVD-ROMs. Read The Full Story

Intel Classmate PC coming to Europe – destined for failure

James Allan Brady, Mar 20th 2008 Discuss [0]

Intel is going to try and bring their Classmate PC over to Europe to compete with the Asus Eee, and they might be able to, on one front, price. The Classmate is supposed to be going on sale for $250-350. Read The Full Story

SanDisk possibly getting into the music and movie sales business?

James Allan Brady, Mar 19th 2008 Discuss [0]

Word is that SanDisk might be stepping into the media sales business with their MicroSD cards. Sansa Sessions is a deal they apparently already have in place where with the purchase of a new 8GB Sansa Fuze player you get a free microSD card packed with 55 tracks. Read The Full Story

Xbox 360 has new OEM Manufacturers according to rumors

James Allan Brady, Mar 18th 2008 Discuss [0]

Word on the streets is that Microsoft’s Xbox 360 is getting some new hardware manufacturers. These are coming in the form of Asus subsidiaries Pegatron and Unihan. Read The Full Story

Circuit City opening new concept store called “The City” – to inspire dreams in HD, better service

James Allan Brady, Feb 29th 2008 Discuss [9]

For some reason Circuit City thinks that if they open a new chain of stores meant to give you what you expect from a regular Circuit City you might shop there more often. They even gave it a name that’s slightly more “hip”, they are dubbing it “The City”. Read The Full Story

MacBook Air sales dropping fast

James Allan Brady, Feb 13th 2008 Discuss [11]

It seems that in the long run the MacBook Air hit the exact niche that Apple was aiming for, an executive notebook. The reason for this is largely due to the high price, people are still very interested and intrigued by the notebook, so the desire for it is still up, but demand is down due to the lack of means to purchase, a.k.a. cash money. Read The Full Story

HTC Shift finally landing, in Europe

James Allan Brady, Feb 7th 2008 Discuss [0]

European retailer Expansys is set to begin selling the UMPC/oversized smartphone on February 19th. There is also a rumor that someone who apparently saw Orange’s upcoming sales campaign says that Orange will be selling their own branded version of the device. Read The Full Story

Update: LG Rumor issues

James Allan Brady, Jan 2nd 2008 Discuss [0]

Hey, remember that story I did about the LG Rumor Debug menu and its ability to wipe the entire phone? Yeah, it turns out that the problem did exist, but it was in a small number of devices, and has apparently already been fixed by Sprint. Read The Full Story

Xbox 360 Devil May Cry 4 bundle hitting Japan next month

James Allan Brady, Dec 27th 2007 Discuss [0]

So the Xbox finally got its hands dirty with the DMC franchise and now in an effort to entice Japanese gamers to pick up the console they are offering a similar bundle as Sony will be offering with the PS3. Essentially it’s a normal 360 with an HDMI port and a copy of the game in the box. Read The Full Story

Nintendo offering exclusive Rain Check program for Wii’s

James Allan Brady, Dec 14th 2007 Discuss [1]

It’s being offered exclusively through GameStop, and basically it means you get something to put under the tree, a guarantee that you’ll have a Wii in January. There isn’t any word on exactly how many of these “rain checks” that GameStop has, but its “many tens of thousands.” Read The Full Story

Nintendo Wii ads might get pulled this holiday season

James Allan Brady, Dec 7th 2007 Discuss [0]

That’s right; Nintendo’s inability to keep up with the high demand has made it clear that the responsible decision is to remove the ads completely. They haven’t quite made the decision to actually do it yet, but if they do, they will be replacing them with Nintendo DS commercials, another great product currently being made by Nintendo. Read The Full Story

Blu-Ray Sucks! But they’ve somehow managed to nearly triple HD-DVD sales

James Allan Brady, Dec 7th 2007 Discuss [18]

2.7 million: 700,000 players is roughly the ratio, and don’t even get started on actual disc sales. Sure, you could argue for HD-DVD and say that 2 million plus of those players are PS3s, making the HD-DVD numbers seem more real, and for the most part that would be a fair assumption that PS3 owners aren’t buying Blu-Ray discs, but they are. Read The Full Story