Entries in 'Hardware' (256)
Sega launches urinal console
It's new hardware, but possibly not as you expected it. Former platform holder Sega has launched a new range of machines in Japan… that attach to male urinals.
Euro 3DS announcement next month
Platform holder Nintendo will reveal its launch plans for new handheld the 3DS at a media event in Amsterdam on January 19th, MCV believes.
Another five years for Xbox 360?
“Who knows,” Xbox's UK and Ireland general manager Neil Thompson replied to MCV when we asked if the Xbox 360 can survive another five years on the market.
Amazon outage 'not a result of hack'
Amazon has stated that the outage that it suffered on Satudrady was a result of hardware failure and not online ‘hacktivism’ as has been claimed.
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JAPAN: PSP sales quadruple
PSP sales rose by more than 400 per cent in Japan this week after Capcom’s Monster Hunter Portable 3rd hit shelves.
UK console installed base exceeds 32m
32.4m current generation game consoles are now in circulation in the UK, according to Gfk Chart-Track.
Wii sales see Xmas surge
Despite competition from Kinect and Move, Nintendo hardware sales have increased as spending ramps up for Christmas.
Nintendo hardware gets Black Friday boost
The lucrative Black Friday shopping week has seemingly proved a very successful period for Nintendo.
CVG reports that internal company estimates point to US sales of 900k units for DS ...
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GAME boosts hardware trade-in deals
Both GAME and Gamestation are offering customers and extra 20 per cent on their normal trade-in price for anyone who hands over their old hardware between today (November 26th) and ...
Hardware RRP ‘dragging down’ market
With year-on-year comparison continuing to paint a picture of gradual decline in the home console games sector, analyst Cowen & Company has named the high RRP of console hardware as ...
UK says no to 3D TV this Christmas
Any hopes of 3D TV being high on consumer’s Christmas wish lists this year appear to have vanished as a new survey suggests that the appetite for the technology in ...
JAPAN: Wii sales rise 300%
Nintendo’s 25th Anniversary Mario Wii has gone down a storm in Japan during its first week on sale.
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Reeves predicts Xbox/PlayStation hybrid
Never one to be afraid of making bold comments, former Sony Computer Entertainment president David Reeves has made his most startling prediction yet – that platform holders such as Sony ...
NPD: October down 4% year-on-year
American sales tracker NPD has announced that the US video games market was worth $1.07bn in October 2010 – that’s four per cent down on the same month in 2009.
Move has ‘exceeded’ Sony’s expectations
The boss of SCEA’s Latin America division has said that PlayStation Move has exceeded the company’s expectations and that it’s struggling to keep up with demand in some key regions.
Nintendo reveals US install bases
Speaking to investors at a BMO Capitals Market presentation in New York, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime has revealed NPD’s total sales numbers for the current home consoles in ...
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Holographic TVs in homes by 2017
Researchers at the University of Arizona have developed a new technology that can provide the fastest moving hologram image ever produced – and they predict the tech will be refined ...
PSP2 ‘has 2x processing power of 360’
At this stage it’s impossible to know what’s true and what’s not about Sony’s new PSP machines, but Kotaku has gone live with what it claims are further specs about ...
THQ: New consoles ‘last thing we need’
The cost and turbulence caused by the transition to a new generation of hardware is not what the games industry currently needs, according to THQ president and CEO Brian Farrell.
Kinect as ‘core’ as Xbox Live
Microsoft hopes that the Kinect motion camera will one day be as integral part of the average Xbox 360 owner’s user experience as Xbox Live has become today.
MS bundles digital Alan Wake
Microsoft has launched a new console bundle that for the first time features one of its triple-A retail releases in digital form.
HMRC warns over game stock deals
Retailers must be more vigilant with rogue traders if they want to avoid having their tax returns voided.
US: Xbox 360 shines in September
The Xbox 360 remained the star hardware performer in North America last month, making good on Microsoft’s recent claims that there’s been a “mid-generation leadership change” in the console market.
Naka wants to make Dreamcast 2
The man behind some of Sega’s most cherished brands has confessed that he still harbours aspirations to make a return to the hardware sector by creating a successor to the ...
EA says PS3 can catch Xbox 360
After what even Sony admits as being a slow start across the globe, the PS3 has finally found its stride and is quickly catching up on its console rivals in ...
