Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console has finally broke the one million sales mark in Japan, after first going on sale December 10, 2005.
According to figures from Famitsu publisher Enterbrain, translated by Kotaku, as of March 29, 1,001,191 units have been sold to consumers. Read the rest of this entry »
Sony America has announced that they will be cutting the price of the aging PlayStation 2 console by over 20 percent to $99.99 USD beginning tomorrow. Read the rest of this entry »
Next week’s launch of the DSi is set to also be the launch of a steady flow of DSiWare games.
Buried beneath the news that the Wii is getting a Bonsai-trimming game for its downloadable WiiWare service this morning was the announcement that Nintendo is going to be supporting downloads for the upcoming DSi aggressively.
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Skype is set to launch an official iPhone app and beginning tomorrow, the much anticipated application will be available in the Apple App Store. Read the rest of this entry »
Rather than hoping that the merits of its soon-to-be-released handheld will sell themselves (a strategy commonly referred to as the “Game Boy Micro Maneuver”), Nintendo is apparently plotting a huge North American marketing campaign for the DSi. The company has already developed a schedule of television, online and in-store advertisements for the shutterbugged device from now until Christmas, making it Nintendo’s biggest ad campaign of the year. Read the rest of this entry »
Last week we reported that Apple was contemplating selling unsubsidized, unlocked iPhone 3Gs, and it appears that as of yesterday, Apple and AT&T retail stores have begun selling the phones at $599 for the 8GB model and $699 USD for the 16GB smartphone. Read the rest of this entry »
Sony America director of hardware marketing John Koller has confided that the company plans to make “big pushes this year” towards downloadable games for the PSP handheld, releasing most digital versions on the same date as it’s UMD physical counterpart. Read the rest of this entry »
While Nintendo has been pretty good so far with the Game Boys of yore and the DS / DS Lite at keeping backwards compatibility pretty much at a maximum, the DSi’s added functionality and processing power is going to test that a bit. Nintendo has confirmed that there will be two new types of DS software, Read the rest of this entry »
At the Game Developers Conference panel titled “Inspiration Behind Nintendo DSi Development,” Nintendo’s project lead Matato Kuwahara revealed that there will be a variety of ways to distribute Nintendo DSi software to users, both digitally distributed as well as via retail packaged software.
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Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has announced during his GDC keynote address that a new Wii firmware update will allow gamers to run Virtual Console games straight from their SD cards, sidestepping the need for the company to release an external hard drive. Read the rest of this entry »
