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Date: Thu, 24. September 2009 08:33:49

(AHN) - Nintendo has announced a price cut for its popular Wii game console. Nintendo's fifth gaming console debuted at $249 in November 2006, and will now receive a $50 price drop as it competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3.

Date: Mon, 28. September 2009 03:07:06

The NY Times is running a story about the effect Apple is having on the console gaming market, making Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo worry that consumers will be satisfied playing games on devices that aren't necessarily focused on gaming. Quoting: "The concerns highlight an accelerating shift away from hard-core games, which have traditionally driven console sales, to more casual ones played on cellphones. Of the 758 new game titles shown at the Tokyo Game Show, 168 were for cellphone platforms mdash; more than twice as many as in the previous year. ... Apple's assault could even eat into sales of home consoles like Nintendo's Wii, Sony's PlayStation 3 or Microsoft's XBox, as game-playing quickly becomes centered on cellphones. Many in the industry say that Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft need to explore more radical changes to their businesses, including an emphasis on software rather than hardware and a better way for users to download games. 'As a platform, the cellphone has the biggest potential, because everybody owns one,' said Kazumi Kitaue, chief executive at another game maker, Konami Digital Entertainment. A family with three children might buy just one Wii or PlayStation to share, but those children will probably have cellphones of their own and download and play games, Mr. Kitaue said."pa href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/09/27/0126230/Console-Makers-Worry-Over-Apples-Growing-Competition?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/09/27/0126230"/a/ppa href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/09/27/0126230/Console-Makers-Worry-Over-Apples-Growing-Competition?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/K2rrzkdFmcdTg9QDYsp72EZc458/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/K2rrzkdFmcdTg9QDYsp72EZc458/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/K2rrzkdFmcdTg9QDYsp72EZc458/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/K2rrzkdFmcdTg9QDYsp72EZc458/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/bGpsm5uhdPY" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Fri, 17. October 2008 20:45:31

NewsFactor - Sales of the Nintendo Wii game console rose 37 percent in September, but the rest of the industry saw losses. It was the first time in more than two years that the market for consoles and games has seen an overall decline.

Date: Wed, 2. July 2008 17:10:23

USATODAY.com - Sexual predators are using gaming consoles such as the Wii, PlayStation and Xbox to meet children online.

Date: Tue, 26. August 2008 17:53:52

AP - Of the three video-game console manufacturers, Microsoft was the first to embrace online gaming, and its Xbox Live has become essential to anyone who wants to play against faraway competitors. Sony and Nintendo are trying to catch up with, respectively, the PlayStation Network and the Virtual Console.

Date: Tue, 2. February 2010 15:06:07

andylim writes "According to Engadget, John Koller, Sony's head of PlayStation marketing, recently said that 'Apple's entrance into the portable gaming space has been a net positive for Sony. When people want a deeper, richer console, they start playing on a PSP.' What's odd though is that everyone knows that the mobile phone gaming market is a huge and yet neither Sony nor Nintendo has made a gaming phone yet. Recombu.com thinks that Nokia could enter the space with PSP-like devices and it has come up with a concept phone called the Ovi Orion, which would bridge the gap between phone and console, 'If the iPhone is Wii, then Ovi Orion would be Xbox and offer Xbox Live style features. A serious gaming phone for serious gamers.'"pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/02/01/151203/Why-Has-No-One-Made-a-Great-Gaming-Phone?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/02/01/151203"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/02/01/151203/Why-Has-No-One-Made-a-Great-Gaming-Phone?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lIg_ptG8bnbyNkprBlGhsuEECns/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lIg_ptG8bnbyNkprBlGhsuEECns/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lIg_ptG8bnbyNkprBlGhsuEECns/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lIg_ptG8bnbyNkprBlGhsuEECns/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/7i51qNJsq_k" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Thu, 13. November 2008 18:06:22

When the Nintendo Wii was first launched, the variety of games included in the included Wii Sports showed people that with the right type of games, the innovative Wii remote system could be used to really work up a sweat. Boxing and tennis were just two of the included games that gamers used to actually exercise and lose some weight.

Date: Thu, 11. March 2010 15:04:58

Sony has a new message for Nintendo Wii gamers: Come join us. The Japanese maker of the PlayStation 3 unveiled Thursday its highly anticipated motion controlling system, as it takes aim at Nintendo's dominance in the gaming sector. With the "PlayStation Move," Sony hopes to lure gamers who have outgrown Nintendo, which launched the Wii in 2006 and became the ...

Date: Fri, 22. May 2009 11:40:18

(AHN) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth has been presented with a gold-plated games console. The 83-year-old monarch was given the exclusive Nintendo Wii by game developers THQ to commemorate the launch of their forthcoming "Big Family Games" collection, which she was also given a copy of.

Date: Thu, 24. September 2009 02:52:26

AP - Nintendo on Sunday will cut the price of its popular Wii console by $50, in a bid to broaden its appeal among potential new customers as it prepares to release the Wii Fit-Plus and New Super Mario Bros. games.