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Date: Fri, 25. July 2008 14:28:12

AP - If the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of "NCAA Football 09" are the starting seniors, then Wii owners might feel like redshirt freshmen with EA Sports' first college football game for Nintendo's popular gaming console.

Date: Mon, 1. June 2009 20:48:28

Two real Beatles and Steven Spielberg promoted new games and gear for Microsoft's game console, Xbox 360. For the first time Nintendo's Wii will have some competiton. LOS ANGELES--It may be an off-year in the video game console, but you wouldn't know it by the...

Date: Fri, 15. January 2010 15:05:24

As high-definition graphics become more and more entrenched in this generation of game consoles, Nintendo has had to deal with constant speculation about a new version of the Wii that would increase its capabilities. Today, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime bluntly denied that a hardware revision was imminent, saying, "We are confident the Wii home entertainment console has a very long life in front of it." He added, "In terms of what the future holds, we've gone on record to say that the next step for Nintendo in home consoles will not be to simply make it HD, but to add more and more capability, and we'll do that when we've totally tapped out all of the experiences for the existing Wii. And we're nowhere near doing that yet."pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/01/15/0738222/Wii-Hardware-Upgrade-Wont-Happen-Soon?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/01/15/0738222"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/01/15/0738222/Wii-Hardware-Upgrade-Wont-Happen-Soon?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YAKd5FasAfiK1z4DpOTryN5Vp_k/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YAKd5FasAfiK1z4DpOTryN5Vp_k/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YAKd5FasAfiK1z4DpOTryN5Vp_k/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YAKd5FasAfiK1z4DpOTryN5Vp_k/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/OLO1m5JN1Yw" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Sun, 7. February 2010 15:06:21

A new report by Game Developer Research reveals that the number of developers working on games for the iPhone continues to rise, roughly doubling in number from last year. At the same time, the amount of work done on games for Nintendo's Wii dropped significantly: "Just over 70 percent of developers said they were developing at least one game for PC or Mac (including browser and social games), rising slightly from last year; 41 percent reported working on console games. Within that latter group, Xbox 360 was the most popular system with 69 percent of console developers targeting it, followed by 61 percent for PlayStation 3. While those console figures stayed within a few percent of last year's results, the change in Wii adoption was much more significant: reported developer support for the system dropped from 42 percent to 30 percent of console developers, supporting numerous publishers' claims of a recent softening of the Wii market."pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/1735237/Game-Devs-Migrating-Toward-iPhone-Away-From-Wii?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/02/06/1735237"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/1735237/Game-Devs-Migrating-Toward-iPhone-Away-From-Wii?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/clvPlGG52LqMrcSfDMtE1qQJssk/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/clvPlGG52LqMrcSfDMtE1qQJssk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/clvPlGG52LqMrcSfDMtE1qQJssk/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/clvPlGG52LqMrcSfDMtE1qQJssk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/27k5hOoBbq8" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Tue, 15. December 2009 15:06:32

mr_sifter writes "PC gamers love to obsess over whether PC gaming is dying, but bit-tech thinks it's time to look at the other side and examine if console gaming is really as secure as publishers would have us believe. All three console manufacturers suffered from the recession mdash; this year, Sony announced its first net loss in 14 years; a stunning yen;989.9bn, which includes record losses of yen;58.5bn in its gaming sector. Microsoft also announced its first loss since it went public in 1986 in the second quarter of this financial year, with a $31 million US loss coming straight from the Entertainment and Devices division, which is responsible for the Xbox 360. Not even Nintendo has escaped the financial plague either, with sales of the Wii dropping by 67 percent in the US, 60 percent in Japan and 47 percent in the rest of the world. In addition to reduced profitability, casual games and the rise of the iPhone further suggest the current model is not invulnerable."pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/12/14/2010234/Is-Console-Gaming-Dying?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/12/14/2010234"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/12/14/2010234/Is-Console-Gaming-Dying?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xsUROwzmKvf4UP9g73I9RIMcaMI/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xsUROwzmKvf4UP9g73I9RIMcaMI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xsUROwzmKvf4UP9g73I9RIMcaMI/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xsUROwzmKvf4UP9g73I9RIMcaMI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/w6NM5PL_f38" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Wed, 23. September 2009 18:35:10

Facing pricing pressure from cuts on the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, it's been widely expected that Nintendo would slash its Nintendo Wii price. A leaked Best Buy memo seems to confirm that.

Date: Fri, 12. March 2010 22:02:50

NewsFactor - Microsoft's Xbox 360 video-game console moved to the top of the U.S. market in February. The software giant's console had been number two behind the Nintendo Wii for nearly three years.

Date: Mon, 27. April 2009 15:04:43

Hugh Pickens writes "June marks the launch across Brazil of Zeebo, a console that aims to tap an enormous new market for videogaming for the billion-strong, emerging middle classes of such countries as Brazil, India, Mexico, Russia and China. Zeebo uses the same Qualcomm chipsets contained in high-end smartphones, together with 1GB of flash memory, three USB slots and a proprietary dual analogue gamepad. It plugs into a TV and outputs at a 640 x 480 pixel resolution. 'The key thing is we're using off-the-shelf components,' says Mike Yuen, director of the gaming group at Qualcomm. This approach means that, while Zeebo can be priced appropriately for its markets mdash; it will launch at US $199 in Brazil compared to around US $250 (plus another US $50 for a mod chip to play pirated games) for a PlayStation 2 in the region mdash; and next year the company plans to drop the price of the console to $149. But the most important part of the Zeebo ecosystem is its wireless digital distribution that gets around the low penetration of wired broadband in many of these countries, negates the cost of dealing with packaged retail goods, and removes the risk of piracy, with the games priced at about $10 locked to the consoles they're downloaded to. Zeebo is not meant to directly compete with powerful devices like Sony's PlayStation 3, Microsoft's Xbox 360, or the Wii. 'In Latin America, where there's a strong gaming culture, that's what we'll be, but in India and China we can be more educational or lifestyle-oriented,' says Yuen. One Indian gaming blog predicts Zeebo will struggle, in part due to the cultural reluctance toward digital distribution and also the lack of piratable games."pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/26/1555226amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/04/26/1555226"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/26/1555226amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/0tM6vozW6ggv8NaMupg9xc_1Q8k/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/0tM6vozW6ggv8NaMupg9xc_1Q8k/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/JfGxBZffGkI" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Thu, 24. September 2009 07:54:52

Games giant Nintendo follows similar moves by Sony and Microsoft and slashes the price of its games console.

Date: Sun, 23. November 2008 17:27:00

CNET - Individual gamers and console makers could significantly reduce energy use from video games, according to study that identified the Nintendo Wii as the industry's most efficient juice sipper.