Articles on Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Corp.

Latest PS3 and Xbox 360 price cut rumors - Jun 29, 2009

Crave Rumor has it the Xbox 360 Elite will take the place of the Pro. Ars Technica's "favorite inside source" is at it again, telling the Web site that Sony is clearing ... Read story »

Why the Wii needs to chop its price soon - Aug 28, 2009

Crave With both Sony and Microsoft dropping the price of the PS3 and the Xbox 360 Elite, the Wii is beginning to look like an overpriced console. There a few reasons ... Read story »

Microsoft slashes Xbox 360 Elite's pricing for Asia - Aug 28, 2009

Crave An all-out price war is looming on the game console horizon. Besides the impending arrival of the PlayStation 3 Slim, Microsoft will be cutting its 120GB Xbox 360 Elite to ... Read story »

PS3 and Xbox 360 finally outsell Wii in US - Sep 7, 2009

Crave As expected, recent price cuts to the PS3 and Xbox 360 helped boost sales of the two consoles, and a strong showing for both helped propel them past the Wii in ... Read story »

Pricing details for Microsoft's Project Natal revealed - Nov 12, 2009

Crave CNET News reporter Ina Fried testing out Microsoft's much-heralded Project Natal. According to a report issued by British games magazine MCV, Microsoft's much-heralded Project Natal hands-free gaming control system could hit ... Read story »

UK survey reveals up to 60 percent Xbox 360 failure rate - Nov 18, 2009

Crave Console failure rates have been a common news item throughout the year, with numerous surveys out of the US suggesting that the problem was far greater than Sony, Nintendo and especially ... Read story »

The shrinking game console: A history - Aug 25, 2009

Features Every few years video game consoles get smaller and more advanced. We track some of the more notable shrinkage in the last 20 years. Read story »

Report: Microsoft taking on Wii with motion-sensing camera - May 13, 2009

Crave This camera, from Israeli startup 3DV Systems--which has reportedly been acquired by Microsoft--could form the basis of a new motion-sensitive controller that Microsoft is reportedly working on. Nintendo won't be ... Read story »

E3 winner: Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo? - Jun 3, 2009

Crave With E3 returning to its old, bigger-is-better format, there seemed to be more at stake at this year's show. Could Nintendo provide enough compelling news to hold onto its lead? Would ... Read story »

Behold the motion-sensitive controller wars - Jun 4, 2009

Crave The new motion-control system from Sony was announced at E3 on the heels of similar new technology from both Microsoft and Nintendo. Forget the console wars. We're in the motion-sensitive ... Read story »

E3 2009: The predictions scorecard - Jun 8, 2009

Crave Before E3 2009 began, CNET's trio of gaming experts--Dan Ackerman, Jeff Bakalar, and Scott Stein--offered their predictions on what they expected to be the show's big news stories. Now that ... Read story »

New Xbox not expected next year - Jun 22, 2009

Crave No matter what people thought they heard Steve Ballmer say in Chicago, Microsoft is not planning to introduce a successor to the Xbox 360 next year. In a blog posting on ... Read story »

The future 360: Project Natal takes shot at Wii - Jun 2, 2009

Crave After a bunch of (mostly) expected games, Microsoft's E3 press conference finally revealed something of greater interest and scope: Project Natal, the code name for the company's well-rumored motion-sensing bar. ... Read story »

Nintendo banks US$6 on each Wii sold - Dec 10, 2008

Features Nintendo's budget-line console is earning a slim operating profit from each of the nearly 35 million consoles sold.  Read story »

Microsoft: Current-gen console cycle to last longer - Jan 13, 2009

Features The Redmond company's Entertainment & Devices division president believes that the next console cycle won't be fueled by the technological arms race. Read story »

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