With the year near its closing end, gaming fans are visiting retail stores to get to lay their hands on one of the two recently launched gaming consoles: Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii. Marking impressive beginnings both consoles sold out completely at their launches and have been running under shortage ever since.
Christmas is round the corner and driving home profits at a zooming speed is what everyone wants. Hooking more and more customers to buy its Xbox 360 is what Microsoft is aiming at.
In a major coup of sorts, Cisco Systems, Inc. launched its own iPhone ahead of Apple Computer. Cisco literally snatched the trademark out of Apple’s jaws, grabbing the rights to the brand name before Apple could launch its phone.
SEGA has roped in Gearbox Software to develop an Alien first-person shooter (FPS). This FPS is set in the same universe as the RPG game based on the Alien movies that SEGA has got Obsidian to do.
A recent study by Josh Bernoff of Forrester Research suggests that iTunes sales have been going down sharply as the data indicates that the number of songs purchased from Apple’s iTunes store, per iPod sold is not accelerating.
After experiencing a slump in its sales for the last couple of weeks, Microsoft is still confident that they will sell 1 million of their portable media player Zune by the middle of 2007.
Two weeks ago, North America launched Nintendo’s Wii console. Records showed 400,000 units sold in eight days. On December 2, Japan will prepare for the first day launching of the next generation Nintendo video game.
