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No One Could Ever Kill Windows – Analysts

A report published by Gartner a couple of days ago warned that Microsoft is about to lose its dominance in the computing market, especially because tablets and mobile phones are becoming a lot more relevant nowadays. Analysts estimated that by 2017 Microsoft would no longer be the king of the operating system world...

6 April 2013
08:11 GMT

Apple Needs to Sell Cheaper Stuff, Says Detwiler Fenton

Analysts at Detwiler Fenton believe Apple is indeed creating a cheap iPhone for the masses and they think there’s a chance it will be built around a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, according to Forbes. The firm said in a research note today, “It is likely that the work with QCOM is being driven by AAPL&rs...

25 January 2013
18:51 GMT

Windows 8 Shot Down Twice This Week

While Microsoft refuses to comment on Windows 8’s sales performance too often, so-called industry experts continue to criticize the company’s new operating system, describing it as a confusing, different and complicated working environment. Windows 8 received two serious hits this week, as both MIT profe...

7 December 2012
13:51 GMT

Analyst: Wii U Is Big Holiday Hit, Price Still a Problem

With the Nintendo Wii U now close to launch on the United States market, the biggest for video game products, a number of analysts offer their own predictions about the success of the new home console.Michael Pachter, the influential industry watcher working for Wedbush Morgan, believes that despite big initial deman...

17 November 2012
16:59 GMT

Analyst: Sony Focuses on the PlayStation 4, No Price Cut for the PS3

Despite the introduction of the new, slimmer PlayStation 3 a number of analysts believe that Sony is no longer interested in cutting the price of the device and focusing most of its resources on a successful 2013 launch for the PlayStation 4.Jesse Divnich, who is an analyst watching the game industry for EEDAR, has t...

18 October 2012
15:11 GMT

Analysts: PlayStation 3 SuperSlim Could Shift Sony Fortunes

Hardware maker Sony has not yet officially announced the existence of the PlayStation 3 SuperSlim, but analysts believe that the new device could be a success for the company as long as the price stays close to 200 dollars or Euro and the 16 GB flash drive is a reality. Lewis Ward, who works for IDC Research, report...

24 July 2012
18:01 GMT

Analysts: Gaikai Can Improve PS3 and Dominate Next Gen

Sony’s acquisition of the Gaikai video game streaming service has prompted a number of analysts to talk about how it might influence the present of the PlayStation 3 and the next generation of hardware from the company. Billy Pidgeon believes that, “It might seem counter-intuitive, but I think Sony shoul...

3 July 2012
05:21 GMT

Analysts: Black Ops II Will Not Break Previous Call of Duty Records

With Call of Duty: Black Ops II now officially announced by publisher Activision Blizzard, analysts have estimated whether the game has the sales potential to match, in 2012, the records set by Modern Warfare 3 and the first Black Ops during previous years. Jesse Divnich, an analyst watching the video game industry ...

7 May 2012
07:08 GMT

Analysts: NPD Group Will Show Decline in Video Game Sales

The NPD Group is getting ready to deliver the sales figures for the United States market for the month of December 2011 and at least one market research firm believes that they will show overall sales remaining flat or even slowing down by as much as 5 percent.Analysts at Sterne Agee say that the biggest selling vide...

12 January 2012
08:31 GMT

Modern Warfare 3 vs. Battlefield 3 Rivalry Good for Both Games

A number of analysts have estimated that despite their claims of tough competition both Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3 have benefited from their close launch dates and the fact that players sought to compare the two games.Piers Harding-Rolls, who works for Screen Digest, told Eurogamer that the trad...

15 November 2011
12:51 GMT

Analyst: Halo Reach Will Not Outsell Call of Duty Black Ops

Analysts that are watching the evolution of the video game industry have questioned Microsoft's assertions that the upcoming Xbox 360 exclusive Halo: Reach from Bungie and Microsoft will manage to sell better than Call of Duty: Black Ops from Treyarch and Activision.Jesse Divnich, who is an analyst working with ...

20 September 2010
05:51 GMT

Analyst: Video Games Are in Persistent Secular Decline

The NPD Group figures for May were pretty grim, showing that the video game industry dropped about 5% when compared to the same period of 2009, with sales of consoles being the worst hit and Super Mario Galaxy 2 not managing to sell more than 1 million units in its launch month.Speaking to MCV Michael Pachter, who is...

9 July 2010
02:01 GMT

AT&T-iPhone Marriage Might End in June 2010

Wireless carrier AT&T is predicted to lose the exclusivity deal on the Apple iPhone in mid-2010, according to analyst Brian Marshall. This is not the first time the carrier has been forecast to lose the right to exclusively distribute the Apple iPhone device in the United States during the next year, and even AT&T i...

26 November 2009
17:21 GMT

Analysts Expect a Strong January for Videogames

That period of the month when the NPD Group releases the sales numbers for the United States market is getting close so it's time for the analysts who are watching the videogames industry to pitch in with their predictions related to the way January shaped up for the various hardware producers.The idea that seem...

11 February 2009
03:31 GMT

Analyst Lowers Estimates for PlayStation 3

The NPD Group data that arrived about a week ago pointed to a dissatisfactory December for Sony, especially because the PlayStation 3, in the most important month of the year for videogame sales, sold less than half the amount of consoles that the Microsoft made Xbox 360 managed to move.Sony has tried to put a positi...

26 January 2009
12:01 GMT

Analyze That: Price Drops Incoming for Gaming Consoles

Microsoft surprised quite a lot of people when it cut, last year in September, the price of the Xbox 360 so that the Arcade, the version of the gaming console that does not have a hard drive, went under the price gamers paid for a Nintendo Wii. More people were surprised by the stubbornness of Sony, which refused to ...

14 January 2009
17:01 GMT

Dell to Consider Entering Smartphone Market

It seems that the worldwide leading PC maker Dell is on its way to release a smartphone as well. According to some analysts, Dell is expected to announce such a device at the 3GSM or the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona next month. “The exact timing of Dell's launch is not clear but our sources i...

14 January 2009
05:44 GMT

Intel to Announce Its Highest-Ever Q4 Revenue

Despite the fact that Intel announced, on Tuesday, its second consecutive record-breaking quarter, the earnings are way below the company's sales expectations. Number one x86 CPU manufacturer reported highest-ever fourth-quarter revenue situated at an impressive figure of $10.7 billion with 38 cent earnings per ...

16 January 2008
05:10 GMT


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