The cosmos must clearly have approved of Microsoft’s actions over this past month , as today we’re hearing the Xbox 360 broke out of its competitive sales funk to claim the title of “month’s best-selling console” … for the first time in two years.
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NPD: Xbox 360 wins US sales war in a downbeat February
Great balls of console wars fire! A top-level Nintendo insider has revealed that the motion-controlled gaming setup we now know as Project Natal was offered to the Japanese company way back in 2007 and promptly turned down because it was considered too expensive.
1994. A good year for many reasons, but for gamers it’s best remembered as the year Sony shook things up in a big way with its original PlayStation game console (on this day in Japan, at least — the rest of us had to wait ’til the fall of 1995). While Sega got a slight head start with its Saturn, the Sony PlayStation’s lower price and strong launch line-up of games quickly vaulted it to the top of the pack, and helped bring in the slightly older audience that 3D0 and others tried and failed to capture.
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Sony’s PlayStation marks 15th anniversary
Boy, it sure likes Sony did something right slimmin’ down (and slightly cripplin’) that new PS3 of theirs.
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Stateside PS3 sales up 300% following Slim introduction
It looks like Engadget editors aren’t the only folk who prefer technology that’s slimmer, cheaper, and better . According to an article at GamesIndustry.biz , a group that charts retail sales in the UK is saying that sales of the PS3 increased over 999 percent in the week since its British debut of the newer, slimmer form factor
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PS3 Slim sales up nearly 1000% in the UK, Noel quits Oasis (again)
I’ve wanted a PlayStation 3 since forever.
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Editorial: A slimmer, cheaper, better PS3. Was that so hard?
We’ve heard plenty of talk about ten-year console life cycles for both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and it looks like there’s some consensus starting to build around the idea that any new consoles really are still a long ways off. Speaking with Eurogamer earlier this week, Epic Games VP Mark Rein cast some doubt on the very need for new consoles anytime soon, pointing out that “over half the users who played Gears of War 2 so far do not have HDTVs,” and adding that “there’s no way we’re ready for the PlayStation 4 or the Xbox Whatever.” He did also note, however, that the current consoles would see some major changes, and in the case of the Xbox 360 he says, “it’s called Natal
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Epic Games VP says new consoles are a "long way off," Natal is the "next Xbox"
