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Xbox 360 Wins The Race Against Sony’s PS3

 
Microsoft is locked in a three-way competition with Nintendo Co Ltd’s Wii and the PlayStation 3. The Wii is currently leading the race, while Sony’s PS2 was the winner of the last generation of consoles.
“Xbox 360 will sell more consoles worldwide this generation than PlayStation 3,” Don Mattrick, a senior vice president […]

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Posted By: veronica | Jul 14th

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Why GTA IV Was the Beginning of the End

 I think it’s safe to say that the era of next-gen gaming as a driving force is over. Why? As of the week ending June 7th (the most recent tally available), just over 9 million copies of the highly touted Grand Theft Auto IV had been sold worldwide for the Xbox 360 and Sony PS3 […]

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Posted By: ashley | Jun 19th

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Halo 3 for XBox Takes the World by Storm

Houston, TX (PRWEB) March 14, 2008 — With over $170 million in sales within only one day and $300 million the first week, the release of Halo 3 for XBox last September was truly marked the biggest day in US entertainment history, leaving an impact many have compared to that of the Star Wars […]

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Posted By: littlec | Mar 14th

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Wii to Displace XBOX 360 in 2008 as Top New Generation Game Machine

Nintendo’s popular Wii game console will displace Microsoft’s Xbox 360 as the new-generation game machine, iSuppli said Thursday.
The market researcher forecasted that the global installed base of Wii game consoles will rise to 30.2 million units in 2008, up from 18 million in 2007, putting it ahead of the Xbox 360’s projected 25.7 million units.
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Posted By: froosh | Feb 17th

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PS3 Outsold XBOX 360 in January

The fight between Sony and Microsoft took an interesting turn:
Sony’s PlayStation 3 video-game console topped Microsoft’s Xbox 360 in U.S. unit sales for the first time in January, but the Redmond company said its sales were hurt by supply shortages.
The PlayStation 3 sold 269,000 units for the month, according to statistics released by the NPD […]

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Posted By: froosh | Feb 15th

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Video Game Industry Sales Stats for 2007

2007 was another rock & roll year for the video game industry.  NDP came out with some numbers to back that up:
- The US video game industry sales rocketed to a record high $17.9 billion dollars in 2007
- Nintendo reigning as champion of the console battle, ahead of Microsoft and Sony
- Sales of video game […]

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Posted By: froosh | Jan 18th

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Microsoft and ESPN team up for Xbox live

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - ESPN has signed a deal to bring full-length games and TV shows to Xbox Live, the online entertainment network for Microsoft’s Xbox 360.
Read more HERE at Yahoo!

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Posted By: jackhammer | Nov 5th

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EA: Going Long with Army of Two

I think this is very smart.  You always have to get it right with a potential blockbuster franchise, but of course, the market would think differently, even though the numbers suggest that the dely won’t have a material effect of earnings:
Electronic Arts Inc., the world’s biggest video game publisher, said on Monday it will delay […]

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Posted By: froosh | Oct 22nd

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Call it the Halo Effect?

Halo 3’s release played a part in MSFT’s XBOX outselling Nintendo’s Wii.

Xbox 360: 528,000
Wii: 501,000
PlayStation 3: 119,000
Chalk one up against “platform-neutrality.”

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Posted By: froosh | Oct 19th

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EA Exec.: Sony, Nintendo and MSFT should kiss and make up

Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo should abandon the console wars and help build a common gaming platform, a senior executive at Electronic Arts has said.
Gerhard Florin said incompatible consoles made life harder for developers and consumers.
“We want an open, standard platform which is much easier than having five which are not compatible,” […]

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Posted By: froosh | Oct 19th

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