05 Jan 09 Early returns show strong holiday video game console sales
Microsoft said its Xbox 360 had the strongest holiday season of its lifetime, while Sony and Nintendo both tout their own sales success. More...Tags: Early Returns, Early Show, Game Console Sales, Holiday Season, Lifetime, Microsoft, Nintendo, Sales Success, Sony, Video Game Console Sales, Video Sales, Xbox, Xbox 360
05 Jan 09 GameStop Halts All Original Xbox Trade-Ins February 9?
With an U.S. install base of over 25 million, it’s perhaps no surprise that the original Xbox still logs more playtime, on average, than the Sony PlayStation 3. But if a rumor making the rounds today is true, that won’t save Microsoft’s black box from extinction. Citing an internal GameStop memo and several anonymous GameStop managers, Destructoid claims that effective February 9th, 2009, the company will stop accepting original Xbox games, systems and accessories for trade-in. While there’sTags: Anonymous, Extinction, Games Systems, Gamestop, Microsoft, Original Xbox Games, Playstation, Playstation 3, Playtime, Sony, Sony Playstation, Sony Playstation 3, Surprise, Trade Ins, Xbox
05 Jan 09 New Years Resoultion Suggestions For Sony
So here it is kids, my first post of 2009, as well as my first official blog for the site. Hopefully 2009 finds you all in good spirits and not faltering on your resolutions (C’mon people, were only five days into the new year). This will undoubtedly be another exciting year for gamers, and almost every sign points to 2009 as another blockbuster year for the industry as a whole, but not all is well in gamerville, especially for the PS3. 2008 was supposed to be the breakout year for Sony’s magiTags: Blockbuster, Blog, Breakout Year, Gamers, Magi, New Year, Resolutions, Sony, Spirits
05 Jan 09 NCAA Football 2010 to be released on July 14, 2009
According to Gamestop.com, NCAA Football 2010 will be released on July 14, 2009. The game will be available on the following platforms:Nintendo Wii, XBOX 360, Sony PSP, Playstation 2, and Playstation 3. If the Gamestop site is correct, this confirms my suspicion...Tags: Game, Gamestop, July 14, Ncaa, Ncaa Football, Nintendo Wii, Platforms, Playstation, Playstation 2, Playstation 3, Psp, Sony, Sony Psp, Suspicion, Wii, Xbox, Xbox 360
05 Jan 09 Xbox360 shifts millions of units
360 blitzing Sony in Europe over Christmas period.Tags: Christmas, Christmas Period, Europe, Sony, Xbox360
04 Jan 09 New book from IBMers: Sony suckered into funding Xbox chip
From the department of "who could have possibly not seen that this was the case?", a new book by two IBMers reveals the inside story of how IBM got Sony to foot a big chunk of the bill for a supercomputing chip that was then repurposed in different incarnations as Playstation 3's Cell processor and Microsoft's Xbox 360 Xenon processor.Tags: Cell Processor, Chunk, Ibm, Incarnations, Microsoft, Microsoft Xbox, Playstation, Playstation 3, Sony, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox Chip, Xenon
04 Jan 09 Sony helped MS in developing the Xbox 360
According to the book “The Race for a New Game Machine” Sony actually helped Microsoft in developing their successful Xbox 360 console.Tags: Game Machine, Microsoft, Microsoft Xbox, New Game, Sony, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox Console
04 Jan 09 Hope Fades for PS3 as a Comeback Player
OKYO — For most of this year, Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 3 videogame console seemed finally to be taking off after a slow start. The PS3, trailing Nintendo Co.’s Wiiand Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox 360 consoles, was closing in on the No. 2 Xbox 360, with new games and quarterly sales growth at twice the speed of last year.Tags: Comeback Player, Consoles, Hope Fades, Microsoft, Microsoft Corp, New Games, Nintendo, Playstation, Playstation 3, Ps3, Quarterly Sales, Sony, Sony Corp, Xbox, Xbox 360
04 Jan 09 Your Xbox 360 Holiday Wishlist
For the 10 of you that dont have an Xbox 360, then you’ll be in for a treat. Sony and Microsoft alike have a slew of game that got released earlier last month and there should be no shortage of games in your Xbox 360 library.Tags: Game, Games, Microsoft, Slew, Sony, Wishlist, Xbox, Xbox 360
04 Jan 09 How Sony Helped Create The XBox 360
Back in 2001 Sony went into partnership with IBM and Toshiba to create the next generation of CPU (the brain in your computer/console) which is now known as “The Cell” which is at the heart of the Playstation 3’s power, little did Sony know though that they were sharing their expensive research with Microsoft their key rivals in the next gen...Tags: Brain, Cpu, Heart, Key Gen, Key Rivals, Microsoft, Next Generation, Partnership, Playstation, Playstation 3, Sony, Toshiba, Xbox, Xbox 360
03 Jan 09 What the Xbox 360 Needs To Accomplish In 2009
With the year already in motion, we see Sony readying their arsenal, but what about Microsoft?Tags: Arsenal, Microsoft, Sony, Xbox, Xbox 360
03 Jan 09 Amazon price cuts select PS3, Xbox 360 titles
Retailer Amazon.com this week price cut select titles for Sony Corp.'s Playstation 3 and Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 in a new game sale.Tags: Amazon Price, Microsoft, Microsoft Corp, Microsoft Xbox, New Game, Playstation, Playstation 3, Retailer Amazon, Sony, Sony Corp, Xbox, Xbox 360
