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Intel Talking to Console Vendors?
Thought this story from Next Gen was interesting since I used to work at Intel as their PC Games evangelist. Back in the day, Intel always struggled with what to do with the burgeoning console market. There was a general belief that the PC was where gaming...
Another bet on Sony Hardware...
... with another fine steak dinner on the line. This time around my good friend N'Gai Croal of Newsweek's " Level Up " fame is dissenting with my assertion that there's a low-end $399 PS3 SKU coming this holiday. He firmly believes Sony will return to...
PS3 Starter Pack in Europe
Sony announced a PS3 "value pack" (no sarcasm intended) for Europe at E3 this year. I've seen a bit of confusion as to what that means, especially as it relates to the " price cut " (sarcasm intended). There's actually not much to this - what you're seeing...
Warranty Update: Three Red Lights Issue
Just wanted to point you to a warranty change we just announced regarding the "three flashing red lights" error some people have had. To quote: As of today, all Xbox 360 consoles are covered by an enhanced warranty program to address specifically the...
U.S. Video Game Console Online Shopping Demand
Saw an update from Compete (a company that tracks and analyzes online store searches to understand consumer demand). This time they're focusing on the Elite SKU, and asking the question of whether there's market demand for it. The whole article is interesting...
PS360 Controller
Just a quick post to share a link to a guy who took the guts of a PS3 controller and somehow made them fit in an Xbox 360 controller. In other words, you end up with a PS3 controller with Xbox 360 controller ergonomics. Not sure why people just don't...
Rumble Support is back for the PS3 (Oh, and Kotaku)
Appears Sony finally bit the bullet and paid up to Immersion. The cost of manufacturing the PS3 is a huge problem for Sony. When we look at best-case scenarios for the PS3 business it's quite obvious that there's nowhere near as much money to...
VideoScan's High-Def Disc Sales Numbers
I had a couple of folks ping me asking my thoughts about this article over at highdefdigest.com . Specifically, they were curious on my thoughts on the data that seems to show Blu-ray disc sales catching up to HD-DVD disc sales. The charts in question...
Analysis of Online Holiday Demand for Different Consoles
Just saw this interesting post from Matt Pace of Compete, a company that specializes in collecting and analyzing online traffic metrics. The company collected data this holiday tracking US video game console demand, and the results are pretty interesting...
Bruce's Thoughts on PS3 Horizontal Scaling in SDK
Some of you might remember I pinged Bruce Dawson (one of our senior software design engineers here) earlier with some questions around 1080i and 1080p . At the time I was trying to understand where Sony was coming from with all their "TrueHD" talk, especially...
Good News for Sony: PS3 Backward Compatibility Fixed
No, not being sarcastic - it appears there's finally some unabashedly good news for PS3 owners out there. According to Arstechnica (and many other sites), the new PS3 1.5 firmware update has resolved the jaggies issue when playing PS2 titles. Means I...
SCEA: PS3 price won’t drop for two years...
... and if you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you. According to this article quoting Game Informer magazine, SCEA's Jack Tretton is stating Sony won't consier a price drop until 2008 at earliest. To quote: When asked by US magazine Game...
Next-gen Console Sound Levels Measured
Looks like a guy with all three consoles took some measurements of sound output of all the next-gen consoles with an SPL meter. The results were interesting to me as they don't have the 360 as the loudest (as conventional wisdom seems to say). I certainly...
CES News for 360: IPTV, 10M+ units sold, 5M Live Subs
Lots of links, here's one from the local Seattle Times . Ten million units sold wasn't a surprise, the holiday bump does wonders. It'll be interesting to see what sort of momentum that gives the system into next holiday. Holiday 2007 is where...
Gamesindustry.biz on "The Phoney War"
Saw an article on Gamesindustry.biz talking about the console war - and seeing as it gave me a chance to use the word "phoney" in a Title, just had to call your attention to it! Actually, in all seriousness, I thought this was one of the first...
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