According to the new EGM, the revolutionary underwater first person shooter, will NOT be coming to PS3 as some had once surmised. While this is not so shocking to me, a gamer with the sense to know that Microsoft understands when they have a hit on their hands with sequel potential
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The Seattle Times has put up word that at coming CES Bill Gates' keynote might have some important announcement about the X360 platform. What exactly? Not known yet but as you can guess, rumours are flying around.
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They want the Wii business and they want 90 million customers. Microsoft believe $199 to be the target and analysts predict this could happen as soon as September.
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360 Vs. PS3, The Hard Numbers
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The selection of movies that one can stream from Netflix to the Xbox 360 just got a bit smaller, as a batch of content distributed by Columbia Pictures — owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment (dun dun dunnnnn!) — is now listed as "currently unavailable for playback on the Xbox." That affects some big releases from the studio, including titles like Superbad, The Karate Kid and The Lives of Others
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GFK Chart-Track has told GamesIndustry.biz that sales of Xbox 360 hardware rose 32% over the weekend of Microsoft's latest price reduction. In comparison, sales of Sony's PS3 were down eight per cent on the previous weekend. Last night, Microsoft announced that sales of the Xbox 360 have hit six million units across Europe. Microsoft's latest aggressive hardware pricing now puts the Arcade Xbox 360 unit at GBP 129.99 in the UK, making it the cheapest of the current generation home consoles.
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Microsoft today announced that Netflix service will soon be coming to the Xbox 360. Xbox Live and Netflix subscribers will be able to stream over 10,000 movies and television shows. Gamers will be able to watch TV and movies with their Live party. NOTE: THIS IS THE ENTIRE ARTICLE.
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"Jasper Chipset" (65 nm) this August, "Valhalla Chipset" (single 65 nm CPU and GPU) Fall 2009?
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iSuppli believes the drives cost $100 a pop for Microsoft. Microsoft then sets a suggested price for retail. In this case, it’s $179.99, though retailers are free to move that price up and down. iSuppli’s estimates, however, are just that: estimates. Could Microsoft be making this much profit? One thing is clear: unlike Sony, the company doesn’t have to worry about open competition among hard drive options for their console, the kind of competition that usually drives prices down.
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Xbox 360 group product manager Aaron Greenberg told Next-Gen in a phone interview Thursday following the release of March's NPD sales figures, "I think the battle for the core user is sort of over, if you will. We're heading now well beyond 20 million in console sales. "I feel we've secured that core buyer, and that gives us quite a bit of an advantage versus PS3, which is late to the game and still at a price disadvantage relative to the Xbox."
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