Articles on Nintendo Wii, Gaming Industry

Time for a Wii price cut? - May 20, 2009

Features Sales for the worldwide bestselling console are slowing down by around 50 percent year-on-year and a much belated price revision may be Nintendo's best prescription. 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 »

Games eclipse DVD/Blu-ray sales - Jan 29, 2009

Features Entertainment software has overtaken home movie sales for the first time with worldwide revenue hitting US$32 billion in 2008. Read story »

E3 live stream, Project Natal for the Xbox 360, and The Beatles: Rock Band - Jun 2, 2009

Blogs It's baaaack! The Electronic Entertainment Expo, more popularly known as E3, has always been the marquee event of the computer and video games industry. After two years of a downsized, invitation-only ... Read story »

Hacking down on video game energy use - Nov 24, 2008

Crave Estimated energy usage from different consoles, with comparisons between people who turn off games when idle and those that don't. Individual gamers and console makers could significantly reduce energy use from ... 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 »

New Wii and controller could arrive by 2011 - Sep 22, 2009

Crave In August, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata explicitly stated that a successor to the best-selling US$249 Nintendo Wii won't "happen any time in the near future." However, given Sony's recent introduction of ... Read story »

Plastic peripherals that changed the way we game - Sep 14, 2009

Features We've put together a list of some the most innovative peripherals and game titles that have helped change the way we play games. Read story »

3.2 million Wiis save holidays - Jan 13, 2009

Features An industry analyst believes that Nintendo Wii and DS are responsible for half of December US game sale.  Read story »

Apple working on its own Wiimote? - May 12, 2008

Crave Microsoft may not be the only one looking to develop its own Wiimote-like game controller. Apple is researching a 3D remote of its own, according to AppleInsider. The research, reportedly outlined ... Read story »

Video game industry shows signs of slowing - Sep 12, 2008

Crave Sales of video game software and hardware in the US rose 9 percent in August to US$1.08 billion, the smallest monthly increase in more than two years, according to data released ... Read story »

Report: Microsoft in talks to buy Israeli VR firm - Feb 18, 2009

Crave The ZCam, from 3DV Systems, which is rumored to be in acquisition talks with Microsoft. Microsoft hopes the acquisition of a virtual reality start-up will give it another trick up ... Read story »

Extreme gamers padding video game industry's bottom line - Aug 14, 2008

Crave The video game industry had better thank its lucky stars that hardcore gamers do what they do. According to a report issued Monday morning by industry analyst firm, The NPD Group, ... Read story »

Microsoft opens up E3 with loud, energetic press conference - Jul 15, 2008

Crave LOS ANGELES--Once again it's that time: Big hype for giant press conferences by the video game industry's biggest names. In this case, we're talking Microsoft, and its annual Xbox 360 bacchanalia. ... Read story »

Apple still quiet on game strategy - Feb 16, 2007

Features Anyone who has seen Apple's television ads knows "PC" is a stodgy business guy. But he sure spends a lot of time chasing down alien terrorists in video games. Read story »

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