Posted on June 11, 2008 by sickr
Microsoft reportedly respects the Nintendo Ds console according to Rare employees.
Online gaming publication Eurogamer recently sat down with Rare engineer, Joe Humfrey and discussed working with the Ds console for their forthcoming Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise. Inadvertently whilst interviewing Humfrey they discovered that Microsoft view the DS as a extremely “viable platform” and a [...]
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Posted on June 3, 2008 by sickr
Choice Magazine has conducted a series of tests which have highlighted just how much power is consumed by next generation consoles.
Leading the pack was the PlayStation 3, which according to Choice “consumed over 10 times as much power as the Nintendo Wii“. Coming in guilty second was Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console which was tied alongside [...]
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Posted on April 21, 2008 by sickr
Business Week have surprisingly knighted Microsoft as the fifth most innovative company in its extensive poll of over 3,000 world-wide businesses.
Unsurprisingly, the ever-iconic Apple took the much cavorted top-spot, which saw Nintendo and Sony reside in seventh and ninth place respectively.
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Posted on February 8, 2008 by sickr
Shane Kim addresses Microsoft’s critics and defiantly declares ‘Nintendo haven’t won yet’.
“This generation still has a long way to go. It is way too early to declare a winner there. A few weeks ago, a lot of people thought the Patriots would win the Super Bowl too,”
- Shane Kim, Microsoft Game Studios corporate vice president
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Posted on January 28, 2008 by sickr
Microsoft is levering itself to take those who’ve been enticed into video gaming via the Wii.
Jeff Bell, an executive at Microsoft recently praised the Wii for drawing non gamers into the video gaming arena, and anxiously hoped that those that’d successfully graduated from the school of Wii would find themselves in possession of a Xbox [...]
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Posted on September 30, 2007 by sickr
With an enormous amount of influential hype and positive reviews behind it, does Nintendo feel that it has to produce something to counter the Halo 3 juggernaut?
Q. There’s been a lot of buzz about Microsoft’s “Halo 3.” How do you expect it to affect the console battle this holiday season?
A. Will they sell a [...]
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