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Date: Tue, 8. November 2011 05:43:02

Digital Trends - According to a recent study from Strategy Analytics, gaming consoles have become the preferred method within U.S. households for watching online movies, television and Web video on televisions. Approximately 12 percent of U.S. households (15 million) use a PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 to consume online media. This percentage of people is much higher than consumers hooking up a PC to a television or third-party, set-top box solutions like the media streamer from Roku. While the personal computer remains the dominant device for consuming online media, 65 percent of Xbox 360 owners under the age of 25 watch more movies and television shows through the console rather than on a desktop or laptop computer.

Date: Fri, 30. December 2011 05:41:32

Digital Trends - Britain’s Ministry of Defense wants to update its solider training tech and is looking at Xbox games with an envious eye. Apparently, newer recruits who have grown up with the latest generation of gaming consoles tend to lose interest with the MoD’s unrealistic simulated training war games.

Date: Sun, 8. March 2009 15:04:50

Craig writes "DCEmu has released an article detailing the current state of the homebrew scene on all game consoles, from the Sega Dreamcast to the Nintendo DS to the Nintendo Wii. It even covers unreleased consoles such as Pandora and GP2xWiz. The article explains what is needed to run emulators and games, and whether or not it's worth bothering for each console."pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/07/175233amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/03/07/175233"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/07/175233amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/vv5K_3bt4cOpxOe0rwfmQGCSYBI/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/vv5K_3bt4cOpxOe0rwfmQGCSYBI/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/QmnPQRRWXD0" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Mon, 1. June 2009 20:48:28

Two real Beatles and Steven Spielberg promoted new games and gear for Microsoft's game console, Xbox 360. For the first time Nintendo's Wii will have some competiton. LOS ANGELES--It may be an off-year in the video game console, but you wouldn't know it by the...

Date: Fri, 25. July 2008 14:28:12

AP - If the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of "NCAA Football 09" are the starting seniors, then Wii owners might feel like redshirt freshmen with EA Sports' first college football game for Nintendo's popular gaming console.

Date: Thu, 10. June 2010 21:45:40

NewsFactor - Sony Computer Entertainment and its sister company, Sony Electronics, will take a giant leap into the 3-D gaming market Friday as it unleashes stereoscopic games that take advantage of a PlayStation 3 firmware update from April. While the gaming platform has been 3-D-ready since then, Sony did not release content until now, and the company is hoping its game console will boost sales of its new Bravia 3-D TVs.

Date: Tue, 7. June 2011 18:24:46

The gaming giant Nintendo's next-generation Wii games console will feature a hybrid controller with a touchscreen.

Date: Tue, 15. December 2009 15:06:32

mr_sifter writes "PC gamers love to obsess over whether PC gaming is dying, but bit-tech thinks it's time to look at the other side and examine if console gaming is really as secure as publishers would have us believe. All three console manufacturers suffered from the recession mdash; this year, Sony announced its first net loss in 14 years; a stunning yen;989.9bn, which includes record losses of yen;58.5bn in its gaming sector. Microsoft also announced its first loss since it went public in 1986 in the second quarter of this financial year, with a $31 million US loss coming straight from the Entertainment and Devices division, which is responsible for the Xbox 360. Not even Nintendo has escaped the financial plague either, with sales of the Wii dropping by 67 percent in the US, 60 percent in Japan and 47 percent in the rest of the world. In addition to reduced profitability, casual games and the rise of the iPhone further suggest the current model is not invulnerable."pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/12/14/2010234/Is-Console-Gaming-Dying?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/12/14/2010234"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/12/14/2010234/Is-Console-Gaming-Dying?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xsUROwzmKvf4UP9g73I9RIMcaMI/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xsUROwzmKvf4UP9g73I9RIMcaMI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xsUROwzmKvf4UP9g73I9RIMcaMI/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xsUROwzmKvf4UP9g73I9RIMcaMI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/w6NM5PL_f38" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Fri, 17. October 2008 20:45:31

NewsFactor - Sales of the Nintendo Wii game console rose 37 percent in September, but the rest of the industry saw losses. It was the first time in more than two years that the market for consoles and games has seen an overall decline.

Date: Thu, 15. December 2011 05:56:21

Digital Trends - Based off a yearly comparison study of 3,000 consumers conducted by Nielsen, video streaming on gaming consoles is on the rise while the number of people watching physical media is dropping. During 2010, ten percent of Xbox 360 owners watched video-on-demand or streaming services like Netflix through the Microsoft console. That number has climbed to 14 percent in 2011. In a similar trend on the PlayStation 3, nine percent of PS3 owners used the console to watch streaming content during 2010, but increased to 15 percent in 2011. The Nintendo Wii had the most significant growth spurt growing from a fifth of all users in 2010 to a third of all users in 2011.