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Date: Wed, 16. June 2010 15:05:41

Sony is moving forward with its 3-D and motion-control gaming plans. The game maker announced Tuesday that 20 3-D games would be released for its PlayStation 3 console by March 2011 while 40 games that utilize PlayStation Move, the console's new motion-control system, would be out in time for the holiday season. Unlike Microsoft's Xbox 360 or Nintendo's Wii, the ...

Date: Thu, 24. September 2009 08:33:49

(AHN) - Nintendo has announced a price cut for its popular Wii game console. Nintendo's fifth gaming console debuted at $249 in November 2006, and will now receive a $50 price drop as it competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3.

Date: Wed, 26. January 2011 23:24:40

The Nintendo 3DS arrives in U.S. stores on March 27 for $250 ? that's the same price Nintendo launched its Wii console for back in 2006. That $250 price tag puts it in direct competition with the current line-up of consoles, with the Wii and Xbox 360 now selling for $200 and the Playstation 3 selling for $300. Will gamers be willing to pay that price?

Date: Mon, 28. September 2009 03:07:06

The NY Times is running a story about the effect Apple is having on the console gaming market, making Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo worry that consumers will be satisfied playing games on devices that aren't necessarily focused on gaming. Quoting: "The concerns highlight an accelerating shift away from hard-core games, which have traditionally driven console sales, to more casual ones played on cellphones. Of the 758 new game titles shown at the Tokyo Game Show, 168 were for cellphone platforms mdash; more than twice as many as in the previous year. ... Apple's assault could even eat into sales of home consoles like Nintendo's Wii, Sony's PlayStation 3 or Microsoft's XBox, as game-playing quickly becomes centered on cellphones. Many in the industry say that Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft need to explore more radical changes to their businesses, including an emphasis on software rather than hardware and a better way for users to download games. 'As a platform, the cellphone has the biggest potential, because everybody owns one,' said Kazumi Kitaue, chief executive at another game maker, Konami Digital Entertainment. A family with three children might buy just one Wii or PlayStation to share, but those children will probably have cellphones of their own and download and play games, Mr. Kitaue said."pa href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/09/27/0126230/Console-Makers-Worry-Over-Apples-Growing-Competition?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/09/27/0126230"/a/ppa href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/09/27/0126230/Console-Makers-Worry-Over-Apples-Growing-Competition?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/K2rrzkdFmcdTg9QDYsp72EZc458/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/K2rrzkdFmcdTg9QDYsp72EZc458/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/K2rrzkdFmcdTg9QDYsp72EZc458/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/K2rrzkdFmcdTg9QDYsp72EZc458/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/bGpsm5uhdPY" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Tue, 26. August 2008 17:53:52

AP - Of the three video-game console manufacturers, Microsoft was the first to embrace online gaming, and its Xbox Live has become essential to anyone who wants to play against faraway competitors. Sony and Nintendo are trying to catch up with, respectively, the PlayStation Network and the Virtual Console.

Date: Tue, 2. February 2010 15:06:07

andylim writes "According to Engadget, John Koller, Sony's head of PlayStation marketing, recently said that 'Apple's entrance into the portable gaming space has been a net positive for Sony. When people want a deeper, richer console, they start playing on a PSP.' What's odd though is that everyone knows that the mobile phone gaming market is a huge and yet neither Sony nor Nintendo has made a gaming phone yet. Recombu.com thinks that Nokia could enter the space with PSP-like devices and it has come up with a concept phone called the Ovi Orion, which would bridge the gap between phone and console, 'If the iPhone is Wii, then Ovi Orion would be Xbox and offer Xbox Live style features. A serious gaming phone for serious gamers.'"pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/02/01/151203/Why-Has-No-One-Made-a-Great-Gaming-Phone?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/02/01/151203"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/02/01/151203/Why-Has-No-One-Made-a-Great-Gaming-Phone?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lIg_ptG8bnbyNkprBlGhsuEECns/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lIg_ptG8bnbyNkprBlGhsuEECns/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lIg_ptG8bnbyNkprBlGhsuEECns/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lIg_ptG8bnbyNkprBlGhsuEECns/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/7i51qNJsq_k" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Wed, 4. August 2010 14:57:33

AP - Twelve years is an eternity is the video-game business. In 1998, the Microsoft Xbox didn't even exist, and games for the top consoles mdash; Sony's PlayStation and the Nintendo 64 mdash; were still regarded as kids' stuff in comparison with the more demanding fare you could play on a PC.

Date: Mon, 9. May 2011 06:41:30

This spring 2011 the global gaming industry – >$70 billion in total revenues -- is in upheaval.  For years, the three game console manufacturers  -- Nintendo (console and hand-held – in 2010 Mario, the iconic moustached game character, celebrated 25 years of gaming history), Sony Playstation, Microsoft Xbox -- can be likened to three race cars in an early Nintendo game hurtling around a track, each taking turns as the front-runner.

Date: Thu, 19. August 2010 16:24:35

Competition from smartphone games could hurt traditional handheld game machines, analysts say. But Nintendo, Sony execs say they aren't worried. Nintendo - Sony - Video game - Games - Console Platforms

Date: Sat, 7. May 2011 14:53:15

China will see the introduction of a video game console backed by Lenovo in the second half of this year. While you might wonder why they would try to compete with the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Nintendo Wii, none of those consoles is allowed to be sold directly in China (which, of course doesn't mean there aren't ways around that).