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Date: Tue, 31. March 2009 15:05:16

Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that the proliferation of free or low-cost games on the Web and for phones limits how high the major game publishers can set prices, so makers are sometimes unable to charge enough to cover the cost of producing titles. The cost of making a game for the previous generation of machines was about $10 million, not including marketing. The cost of a game for the latest consoles is over twice that mdash; $25 million is typical, and it can be much more. Reggie Fils-Aime, chief marketing officer for Nintendo of America, says publishers of games for its Wii console need to sell one million units of a game to turn a profit, but the majority of games, analysts said, sell no more than 150,000 copies. Developers would like to raise prices to cover development costs, but Mike McGarvey, former chief executive of Eidos and now an executive with OnLive, says that consumers have been looking at console games and saying, 'This is too expensive and there are too many choices.' Since makers cannot charge enough or sell enough games to cover the cost of producing most titles, video game makers have to hope for a blockbuster. 'The model as it exists is dying,' says McGarvey." As we discussed recently, OnLive is trying to change that by moving a big portion of the hardware requirements to the cloud. Of course, many doubt that such a task can be accomplished in a way that doesn't severely degrade gameplay, but it now appears that Sony is working on something similar as well.pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/31/0015225amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/03/31/0015225"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/31/0015225amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/bHvC419z3XCV_wAADo9PWIRLdBY/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/bHvC419z3XCV_wAADo9PWIRLdBY/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/Bo6_UKDTuSM" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Wed, 7. December 2011 08:04:31

Microsoft Corp. is rolling out a new interface for its Xbox game console, one that allows you to navigate through music, movies, TV shows and games with the wave of your hand or the sound of your voice.

Date: Thu, 25. November 2010 02:28:48

AFP - Bethesda Softworks is building on the rock star debut of "Fallout: New Vegas" with the December release of a new chapter of the epic videogame exclusively for play on Xbox 360 consoles.

Date: Thu, 26. June 2008 08:24:10

AP - The Nintendo DS isn't just fun and games anymore for English students at Tokyo's Joshi Gakuen all-girls junior high school. The portable video game console is now being used as a key teaching tool, breaking with traditional Japanese academic methods.

Date: Thu, 15. October 2009 03:09:44

Vigile writes "When you sell over 100 million handheld gaming systems, everyone wants to be involved in your success; just ask Nintendo. As a company with many different obstacles in its path, NVIDIA could definitely use the boost in revenues that would come from partnering with a company like Nintendo on a handheld system, and it looks like the Tegra processor will make that happen. The NVIDIA Tegra processor is an SoC that runs a set of ARM cores, a GeForce-based graphics core and an HD video processor capable of 1080p output that would definitely give the current Nintendo DS/DSi systems a performance boost in line with the Sony PSP. The 'Nintendo TS,' as it has been dubbed, will apparently be ready for a late winter 2010 release and should put a spark in the mobile gaming market and give Nintendo's developers the power to bring higher quality games to the platform."pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/10/14/0458216/Next-Nintendo-Handheld-To-Be-Powered-By-NVIDIAs-Tegra-Chipset?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/10/14/0458216"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/10/14/0458216/Next-Nintendo-Handheld-To-Be-Powered-By-NVIDIAs-Tegra-Chipset?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/nAdhNZtH7wQt1Fg7fTV6PLz4iNo/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/nAdhNZtH7wQt1Fg7fTV6PLz4iNo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/nAdhNZtH7wQt1Fg7fTV6PLz4iNo/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/nAdhNZtH7wQt1Fg7fTV6PLz4iNo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/EOsDH-JjHgo" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Thu, 13. November 2008 18:06:22

When the Nintendo Wii was first launched, the variety of games included in the included Wii Sports showed people that with the right type of games, the innovative Wii remote system could be used to really work up a sweat. Boxing and tennis were just two of the included games that gamers used to actually exercise and lose some weight.

Date: Mon, 19. January 2009 12:49:00

PC World - Make what you will of Sony's embryonic PlayStation Home, the PS3's online matchmaking service ultimately costs nothing, while Microsoft's Xbox Live equivalent reaches into your wallet and extracts $50 annually. It's all a bit strange, really, considering the Xbox's Windows-based sibling, Games For Windows Live, made the transition to on the house this summer.

Date: Thu, 21. August 2008 03:05:15

For PlayStation 3 fans who want to do more than mash buttons when playing games on the console, Sony Corp. is introducing a wireless keypad that can be attached to the system's controller for typing and Web browsing.

Date: Wed, 20. August 2008 22:33:12

For PlayStation 3 fans who want to do more than mash buttons when playing games on the console, Sony Corp. is introducing a wireless keypad that can be attached to the system's controller for typing and Web browsing.

Date: Fri, 25. March 2011 19:09:46

AP - Whether you're watching a Hollywood action movie in an IMAX theater or college hoops on a 3-D TV, there's no denying the wow factor of current 3-D technology. And the trend isn't lost on video-game companies — particularly Sony, which has been trumpeting the 3-D environments of recent PlayStation 3 games like "Killzone 3."