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A Sony exec has responded to online criticism regarding the Vita no-show in Sony’s Gamescom 2014 press conference. The handheld (as well as the PS3) was MIA from the briefing, provoking strong criticism from the Vita’ loyal and vocal fanbase online. Subsequently PlayStation content strategist Shahid Kamal Ahmad took to …
Read More »Nvidia Shield Tablet: the first mobile gaming PC?
Nvidia hopes to expand the niche audience for its Shield Portable gaming handheld with a worldwide release of the new Shield Tablet. MCV catches up with Chris Daniel, senior product manager at Nvidia The launch of Nvidia’s Shield Portable last year in the US set many tongues lolling at the …
Read More »Console and PC game revenues to decline by 12% by 2019
The growth of mobile gaming will erode the console and PC games market by 12 per cent over the next five years. That’s according to Juniper Research which says that the sector revenues will decline from $46.5bn to $41bn by 2019. Despite this, console and PC games will still account …
Read More »EA is losing faith in 3DS and Vita
It’s hard to envisage a future in which handheld consoles remain relevant, EA COO Peter Moore has argued. "We were supportive of both of those platforms," Moore told Games Industry. "But then you’ve got finite resources and you’ve got teams that say, ‘We really think that two or three years …
Read More »Don’t Starve coming to Vita
Don’t Starve is headed to PlayStation Vita, developer Klei Entertainment has announced. Entitled Giant Edition, the handheld version will also include the Reign of Giants DLC that was released for PC in April. The studio also says that the Vita release will use touch controls to navigate menus. A release …
Read More »Smartphone games account for 75% of app store spending
Google Play and iOS games accounted for 75 per cent of app store spending last year. It was a year of major growth for the smartphone sector as areport by IDC and App Annie foundconsumer spend on Google’s Android games store increased by over four times in Q4 2013 compared …
Read More »Iwata: Nintendo console development should be like mobile
Standardised programming between systems and generation leaps could increase amount of software on new hardware
Read More »Nintendo could merge handhelds and home consoles into single machine, Iwata admits
A single system combining both home and handheld consoles could be the future of Nintendo’s hardware business. That’s according to president Saturo Iwata. Although the exec admits that he’s not personally convinced by the idea, he does say in an investor Q&A that the company could pursue such a strategy …
Read More »PS Vita could go digital-only, says Sony
The PlayStation Vita has seen a larger share of digital purchases than the PS3 and could be headed into an all-digital future, Sony has said. PS Vita games are currently sold via PSN as well as at retail on proprietary memory cards, and while physical sales still dominate, Sony says …
Read More »2DS drops below £100 at UK retail
Nintendo’s handheld console 2DS has dropped below the 100 barrier at several UK retailers. Having arrived in the UK on October 12th at 109.99, a drop to below 100 was always inevitable as Christmas approached, although perhaps some would have thought retail would have waited longer than ten days. Sainsbury’s …
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