Sony announced last week it plans to release new firmware for its PlayStation 3 video game console. The new update will expose new capabilities in the PS3’s Blu-ray Disc player.
The free update for PS3 users in North America was to be posted by the weekend. Blu-ray Disc is the heir apparent to the crown […]
Perhaps this can be considered a lesson for game developers eager to deliver tomorrow’s game technology today: Crysis hit the PC market with an exoskeleton-enhanced thud. The critically praised — but processing intensive — title sold a disappointing 86,633 units in the States following its Nov. 13 release.
Holding hands with Crysis is Epic’s Unreal Tournament […]
Thanks to Black Friday and the holiday buying season, the video games industry experienced blistering sales during November.
Nintendo walked away as the big dog, selling a record number of hardware units. The Nintendo DS handheld sold an astonishing 1.53 million units – 653,000 of them during Black Friday week. The Wii likely sold out its […]
Unit sales and price point seem to have a direct correlation in this generation’s console race. After cutting the price of its 80GB PlayStation 3 to $499 and introducing a 40GB model at $399 in November, Sony experienced a significant uptick in sales of its high-tech hardware. Nintendo’s $249 Wii, which has been the cheapest […]
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Sony Corp will launch a cheaper model of its PlayStation 3 in the United States, hoping to attract more buyers as it goes up against rival game consoles from Microsoft and Nintendo this holiday. The company also cut the price of its highest-capacity model by about 17 percent. The new version of […]
When it comes to computer processors, the advantages of a die-shrink are undeniable. For chip makers – and overclockers – a processor manufactured at a smaller process can open up more headroom for faster clock speeds, or decrease power consumption and cooling requirements. A die-shrink is a much-lauded happening in the computer world. For consoles, […]
Today, Microsoft announced that it is once again revamping its warranty scheme for the Xbox 360. After mounting anecdotal evidence of the system’s failure rate due to the dreaded “red ring of death” (three flashing red lights on the console’s front panel), the publisher is changing its warranty to cover systems affected by the red […]
Sales of the new video game systems cooled slightly, according to sales numbers released by NPD for the month of March. Sales of Nintendo DS nearly doubled that of anything else, selling over a half-million units. Nintendo president Reggie Fils-Aime, clearly pleased with the results, said, “The message delivered by both Wii and Nintendo DS […]
Sony sees opportunity in the idle computing power of 6 million PlayStation 3s. It’s considering offering product discounts and other incentives to entice owners to leave their game consoles on, so Sony can corral them into a supercomputing grid it could lease to businesses. Companies, particularly in the medical industry, have approached Sony with the […]