Articles on Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Console

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 »

Video game industry sales down 17 percent--again - May 26, 2009

Crave For the second straight month, video game industry sales tumbled nearly 17 percent year over year, a downward trend for a market segment that had previously seemed resistant to the economic ... Read story »

"PS3 Slim" rumor fervor hard to fathom - Aug 18, 2009

Crave Is this the new PS3 Slim? Rumors have it Sony may unveil such a device at the Gamescon show in Germany. On the other hand, it may all be fanboy-driven fervor ... Read story »

The Nintendo Wii is a treehugger like you and me - Feb 2, 2009

Blogs So, I was jogging around Wii Island and can't help noticing that there is a windfarm on it. How cool is that?!  Incidentally, the Nintendo Wii is also the greenest gaming ... Read story »

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 »

Nintendo to cut prices for Wii? - Sep 15, 2009

Crave With Microsoft and Sony both slashing prices on their respective consoles, it's no surprise that Nintendo appears to be following suit. Last month we explained why we think the Wii ... 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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Is MotionPlus too little, too late for Nintendo? - May 6, 2009

Crave But as far as the idea of motion control is concerned, is it as satisfying as hoped? With the arrival of Wii MotionPlus, Nintendo promises even more accurate motion control ... Read story »

PS3 Slim reviewed - Aug 21, 2009

Crave Back in 2004, four years after first launching the PlayStation 2, Sony brought out a new, much more compact PS2. Timed to come out just as Grand Theft Auto: San ... Read story »

Wii hits 7 million in Japan - Nov 28, 2008

Features Japanese magazine Famitsu reports Nintendo's console has outsold the PS3 by nearly three times in its home country. Read story »

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