October 11, 2009 • 6:13 pm
Reggie Fils-Aime, President and Chief Operating Officer of Nintendo of America, has blasted Sony’s recently released PSP Go stating the console itself is fundamentally flawed in concept.
The PSP Go may have a fundamental concept problem in terms of ‘Who’s it for?’ and ‘What’s the benefit?’ I have the utmost respect for all our competitors, but it’s interesting to try and answer the consumer question of ‘What’s in it for me?’ in that product.
- Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo of America
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Filed under: Nintendo, Sony , flawed, psp go, Reggie Fils-Aime
October 8, 2009 • 6:29 pm
Jack Tretton, the outspoken President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America, has boldly claimed the company takes more risks than Nintendo and caters to a wider audience than both of its competitors combined.
“In an industry that’s certainly had its challenges this year, we like to say that the environment where PlayStation wins is best for this industry. We have a brand that can play on a worldwide basis, young and old, male and female, where our competition tends to be relegated to either select regions or to select consumer audiences.
We don’t have unlimited money, we cater to a more mass market audience. I think we’re willing to take a little bit more risk than a competitor like Nintendo is and ultimately we deliver to the masses on a worldwide basis and that’s what we’ve done for the last 15 years.”
- Jack Tretton, Sony America
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Filed under: Nintendo, Sony, Wii , jack tretton, mass market, Sony
August 22, 2009 • 6:18 pm
Greenpeace has decided enough is enough and has informed console manufactures to stop the use of hazardous chemicals in their game consoles. The environmental group claims console manufacturers have so far failed to reduce the toxic contents of their products
Game consoles manufacturers are lagging way behind the makers of mobile phones and PCs who have been reducing the toxic load of their products over the past year. Game consoles contain many of the same components as PCs so manufacturers can do a lot more.
- Zeina Al Hajj, Greenpeace International toxics campaigner
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Filed under: Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony , consoles, environment, greenpeace
Nintendo has admitted that it needs to continue making the Wii as immersive as possible to keep up with future competition.
President of Nintendo America, Reggie Fils-Amie, believes that Nintendo will “have to move on” to the next level if it wishes to compete against both Microsoft’s and Sony’s forthcoming motion sensing peripherals.
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Filed under: Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, Wii , motion sensing, project natal
Head of American gaming retail chain speculates that consumers should see the Wii’s recommended retail price drop this Autumn.
Dan DeMatteo, head of US gaming store Gamestop, believes that we should see pricing of both the Nintendo Wii and the PlayStation 3 drop substantially this Autumn, as he strongly believes both gaming consoles recommended retail prices are overly excessive in the current economic climate.
These hardware prices have stayed up longer in this cycle than in any other time before, and in a very dire economic environment, those two things seem to be mutually exclusive. Put all those things together, I think that there will have to be price cuts in order to get the hardware moving to where it needs to be.
- Dan DeMatteo, head of Gamestop
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Filed under: Nintendo, PlayStation 3, Sony, Wii , gamestop, hardware, nintendo wii, PlayStation 3, pricing
Nintendo of America President, Reggie Fils-Aime, openly stated that “it’s hard to say something nice about the PS3″ when he was quizzed about Nintendo’s relentless competitors.
Whilst he wasn’t altogether too enamoured with the PlayStation 3, Reggie did however cite Xbox Live as an online platform that concerns both him and his companions over at Nintendo.
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Filed under: Microsoft, Nintendo, PlayStation 3, Sony, Wii , competition, PlayStation 3, Reggie Fils-Aime, xbox live
The twenty most consistent game development studios have been revealed, with Nintendo unsurprisingly coming out third.
GameQuarry.com have devised a in-depth study which looks at the most consistent game developers from around the world. The results compromised of 1,742 development studios and due-fully took into account the developers Metacritic scores across the board.
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Filed under: Nintendo, Sony, Xbox 360 , developers, game quarry, metacritic, Nintendo
January 26, 2009 • 7:33 pm
January 24, 2009 • 7:53 pm
During the predominantly bleak month of January, hardware sales for all three console manufactures plummeted by a whopping 23 percent in Japan.
Although the appeal of the current crop of consoles continues to remains steadfast amongst consumers, Japan itself has seen a significant drop in shoppers looking to purchase luxury electronic items due in no small part to the current economic climate.
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Filed under: Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony , 2009, hardware, japan, nintendo wii, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
January 4, 2009 • 9:38 pm
Whilst the Nintendo Wii continues to shift a colossal amounts of units, a recent survey reveals that the majority of American households still house a PlayStation 2 console.
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Filed under: Nintendo, Sony, Wii , america, console, nintendo wii, playstation 2, Sony
