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Sony PlayStation Director Not Concerned That the Vita Will Miss the Holidays

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on October 27, 2011 at 9:02 am PT

Don’t compare it to the iPad, Nintendo’s 3DS, or even its predecessor, the PlayStation Portable. Vita could be in a class of its own.

Sony Delays New PlayStation Portable Until Next Year in U.S., Europe

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on August 4, 2011 at 11:18 am PT

Sony says the yet-to-be-released PlayStation Vita is facing delays and that the portable game device will no longer be released everywhere in time for the very important holiday shopping season.

Xbox Dominates Market in May Despite Worst Slump Since 2006

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on June 13, 2011 at 4:00 pm PT

Microsoft’s Xbox 360 recorded another strong sales month and now accounts for 34 percent of all videogame revenues — spanning hardware, software and accessories — for the first five months of the year.

Risks of Children Viewing 3-D Fading Into The Background In Time for Nintendo's Handheld Launch

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on March 21, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

With less than a week to go before Nintendo launches the 3DS in the U.S., safety concerns about whether children should view the three-dimensional images have largely disappeared–right before our eyes.

Sony Ericsson Woos Developers to PlayStation Phone, But Fails to Tap Into Existing PSP Titles

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on March 2, 2011 at 1:23 am PT

Recognizing that a wide variety of games will be key to its success, Sony Ericsson held a press conference at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco yesterday to drum up developer support for the upcoming launch of the Xperia Play, its first PlayStation-certified smartphone.

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Nintendo Chief Mum on Sony After iPad Lesson

Daisuke Wakabayashi, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 31, 2011 at 12:00 am PT

The children’s game “telephone” offers a valuable lesson on how a message can get warped and distorted as it passes from one person to another. For all of its positive attributes, the Internet can function at times like a giant, global game of “telephone.” Just ask Nintendo Co. President Satoru Iwata.

Nintendo More Scared of Apple Than of Microsoft

John Paczkowski in Mobile on October 26, 2010 at 7:32 am PT

Which company is the greater threat to Nintendo’s gaming business–Apple or Microsoft? According to Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime, it’s Apple–at least in the short term. “Do I think that in the near term [Apple] can hurt us more than Microsoft?” Fils-Aime said to Forbes. “Absolutely.”

Videogame Industry Suffers Massively Multiplayer Sales Decline

John Paczkowski in News on May 14, 2010 at 6:50 am PT

April was another lousy month for the videogame industry. With overall revenue down 26 percent and hardware down 37 percent, it was the worst monthly year-over-year sales decline since last July, according to research house The NPD Group. It was also the 10th time in the last 13 months that sales have fallen year-over-year.

Aloha, iPad!

Peter Kafka in Media on May 12, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

Sure, the iPad is big in Boston, San Francisco and New York. But who knew it’d be a hit in Honolulu?

The Complete Works of Bing Gordon: Odes to the iPhone and iPad

John Paczkowski in News on March 31, 2010 at 2:23 pm PT

At a Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers event this morning held to announce the doubling of its $100 million iFund, KPCB team member Bing Gordon read two poems–the first a 2008 paean to Apple’s iPhone, the second an ode to its forthcoming iPad. After the jump, the full text of both: “Welcome to the World, iPhone” and “Welcome to the World, iPad.”