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Microsoft Set to Unveil Motion-Tracking Camera for Xbox 360

The current generation of consoles has completely rewritten the whole gaming industry. This is largely due to the Nintendo Wii, which, through its motion-sensitive controllers, has managed to introduce an entirely new concept into the creation of a video game. Seeing as how the gamble paid off and the Wii is the bes...

13 May 2009
16:41 GMT

The PlayStation 3 Is Wii On Steroids for Average Families

Almost ever since consoles first appeared, a war between them has been waged. Now, as the Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 are currently duking it out on the gaming market, the fierce fight between them is getting more and more intense, as executives want to emphasize their own company's dominance on its...

11 May 2009
02:43 GMT

Microsoft Buys Exclusives Due to Insecurity, Says Sony

The console war between the top three manufacturers, Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony, has given birth to a lot of controversy and acid comments about each of the companies from its rivals. From bragging about features to game lineups and exclusivities, heavy words have spanned them all. Now, after quite some time in wh...

8 May 2009
02:42 GMT

The PlayStation 3 Will Be the Best, It Just Needs 3 to 5 Years

The console war between the top three companies, Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony, has supplied us with a lot of interesting quotes over the years, mostly regarding the dominance of one or another console over its competition. With words focusing on the near future and the following months, the forecasts of various execu...

5 May 2009
13:01 GMT

Electronic Arts Hopes the PlayStation 3 Will Come Out on Top

The console war has been around for quite some time, but, as recent sales charts reveal, the only real loser is Sony, with its PlayStation 3 device, as the two rivals, Nintendo and Microsoft, are doing very well, with pretty high sales despite the troubled economy in a lot of territories. The high price has deterred...

5 March 2009
12:01 GMT

Analyst Says Both Sony and Microsoft Executives Are Right in the Console War

The console war is a series of very tough battles in which the top three manufacturers, Nintendo Microsoft and Sony, are fighting over each customer and try to come up with new and innovative ways in which they can attract them to buy their own consoles. In the last few months it seems that the arguments between the...

22 January 2009
16:51 GMT

Half of the Console Market Will Be Owned by Wiis

Ever since he is no longer vice president at Microsoft, Peter Moore appears to have something against the Xbox 360 console and, even more, he just seems to love talking more than actually doing something (OK, I admit, this is just my personal opinion). Either way, one thing is clear: Peter Moore is one of those guys ...

22 July 2008
12:06 GMT

PlayStation 3 Was on Life Support

Howard Stringer, who is Sony's Chief Executive Officer, has admitted that his company faced a hard time when the PlayStation 3 was launched and that more effort is required to recoup the investment made in the gaming console. As part of a questions and answers session at the D: All Things Digital conference taki...

30 May 2008
10:13 GMT

Will Wii Ware and PSN Take XBLA down?

Microsoft was quick to cash in on the whole independent games mania with its Xbox Live Arcade concept. As part of the Xbox Live Marketplace, any gamer can browse and eventually buy small, fun and interesting games from the service all through his gaming console.Inspired in part by the success Microsoft enjoyed with t...

18 April 2008
19:06 GMT

Xbox 361 Is Coming!

Ever since Bill Gates had a speech at CES this January, people started to talk about a new Xbox console, but Microsoft insisted and kept saying "No!". Still, things have changed, since the High Definition war got a winner, Toshiba kissed goodbye the HD-DVD format and the Blu-ray Discs danced in jubilation. This meant...

2 April 2008
02:24 GMT

PlayStation Store to Get Facelifted in April?

April will definitely be one of the busiest months this year and I'd probably not overreact too much if I'd say one of the busiest months in the gaming history. Shadowed by the console war - Xbox 360 vs. PlayStation 3, to be more accurate - we're already receiving all the signs needed to understand tha...

27 February 2008
03:39 GMT


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