Hardware

PS3 & Xbox 360 Have Lost Billions Of Dollars

There is a growing set of people who think that the console we’ve come to know and love (and hate at times) is on its way out. That the need for hardware is over, and the future will be one where the idea of a company releasing a dedicated machine for playing games on is...
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Wii U Sales Steady, But Nowhere Near Wii Levels

The future of the Wii U is unclear. As is the future of Nintendo. Hell, even the future of games consoles and the industry as a whole is up in the air right now, as the hardcore and casual elements drift further apart. Nintendo was the first of the big three to launch its next-gen...
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Microsoft Teasing New Xbox Reveal At E3 2013

Make the most of that games console staring back at you from above, because the chances are it’s about to be superseded by something better. The new Xbox hardware is on its way, and even Microsoft is teasing its debut appearance. We’ve known for some time that Microsoft was beavering away on the next Xbox...
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Wii Evolves Into Wii U — Wii Wish

Nintendo experienced a rather muted launch of the Wii U in November, but the holiday season should see more of the next-gen consoles flying off store shelves. Perhaps if the video embedded below was an official Nintendo ad then sales would go through the roof. Sadly it’s only a fan-made effort. There’s actually a serious...
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PS3 Named Number One For Netflix Streaming

It turns out that Netflix is insanely popular on the PlayStation 3, with the Sony console being named number one for streaming out of all the various Internet-connected devices Netflix has a presence on. One of the revelations of the current generation of home games consoles has been their emergence as devices for more than...
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Motorola Loses Bid To Ban Xbox 360

There was a chance the Xbox 360 was going to be banned from being sold in the run-up to Christmas, which would have put a serious dent in Microsoft’s hopes of having a strong 2012 holiday season. Thankfully, common sense has prevailed. According to BBC News, Motorola lost its bid to halt all sales of...
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Pachter Predicts PS4 Coming This Time Next Year

The release of the Wii U from Nintendo has signaled the arrival of the eighth generation of home games consoles. The only question worth asking now is, when will Sony and Microsoft launch their next-gen consoles? I’ve long suspected that both Sony and Microsoft will launch their new consoles in 2013, announcing them at E3...
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Nolan Bushnell Disses The Nintendo Wii U

With the Wii U having been out for over a week now, it’s time for people to start expressing their thoughts and feelings on the latest home console from Nintendo. Many people have bought one, and are likely happy playing on it right now, but not everyone is a fan. One non-fan is Atari founder...
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Sony & Microsoft Could Have Had Wii Technology

With the Wii U now being out in North America, the next-generation has finally begun. In fact, it’s now the current generation, with the PS3 and Xbox 360 effectively having been unofficially labeled as outdated at this point in time. This means we can look back over the last-gen with a critical eye. Nintendo won...
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Wii U Owners Unhappy With Firmware Update

The Wii U was released in North America last weekend (and the reviews are already in). Unfortunately Nintendo saw fit to release the console with many features unfinished, releasing a firmware update on day one in order to enable these elements. This isn’t a minor update most people will be able to skip either. Instead...
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Strong Rumors About Next-Gen Xbox Revealed

Xbox World magazine may be closing, but it seems determined to go out with a bang. The penultimate issues of the publication includes an 8-page feature detailing “everything we know” about the next-gen Xbox console. The magazine suggests Microsoft is keen on a simple name, possibly even just “Xbox” for its new machine. This goes...
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Nintendo Wii U Reviews Round-Up

The Wii U was released in North America yesterday (Nov. 18), with releases in the EU and Australia to follow on Nov. 30, and in Japan and beyond on Dec. 8. Nintendo insisted no reviews of the hardware were revealed before release date, but now that the Wii U is out in the wild those...
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PS3 Vs. Xbox 360 – Neck & Neck In Sales

The Sony PS3 was released a full year after the Xbox 360 from Microsoft. And then it received a lackluster reception thanks to a stupidly high price tag and a lack of great launch games. However, even with this poor start in life, the PlayStation 3 has managed to catch up with the Xbox 360...
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Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata Unboxes Wii U

You may have noticed a strange phenomenon whereby people post videos of themselves unboxing new technology products, usually to YouTube. I don’t really see the appeal – of either making or watching them myself – but each to their own. For the Wii U console Nintendo decided to bring the whole thing in-house, with CEO...
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Microsoft Refers To ‘Future Xbox Platform’ In Job Ads

There have been constant and consistent rumors of a new Xbox console being on the horizon for the best part of the last year. It seems that once Nintendo announced the Wii U, Microsoft (and to a lesser extent, Sony) decided the time to act had arrived. These aren’t just rumors from third parties. Microsoft...
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