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If You Invested $1,000 In Sony Stock When PlayStation 2 Was Released, Here's How Much You'd Have Now
Wednesday, August 4, 2021 - 6:15pm | 426Read More...One of the largest gaming companies in the world is Sony Group. Corp (NASDAQ: SONY). The company is a technology giant operating in sectors such as smartphones, electronics, televisions and more. The release of the PlayStation console for the company forever made the company a household name...
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Happy 20th Birthday To The PlayStation 2
Wednesday, March 4, 2020 - 1:58pm | 376Read More...A congratulations is in order. Sony’s (NYSE: SNE) PlayStation 2, the best-selling game system ever, turned 20 on March 4. During its prime, the PS2 competed with Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Xbox 360 and Nintendo’s (OTC: NTDOF) GameCube. A New Era Sony ushered in a new era of gaming...
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Don't Expect A New Nintendo Console Before 2018
Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - 1:28pm | 564Read More...Longer lifecycles could keep Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) from releasing a new console in the near future. Up until recently, the Mario maker released a new TV-connected game machine every five years. This tradition ended with Wii U, which arrived in 2012 -- a full six years after the original Wii...
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Hints That 2015 Is The Swan Song For Nintendo's Wii U
Thursday, June 12, 2014 - 9:01am | 552Read More...Virtually every major character and franchise -- Mario, Zelda, Star Fox, Yoshi, Kirby, Smash Bros., etc. -- will arrive on Wii U by the end of 2015. Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) could surely delay some of those games and save them for a later date, or develop something entirely new for the following...
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PlayStation 4 Vs. Xbox One
Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - 5:47pm | 1833Read More...Which new console reigned supreme on launch day? Which one will dominate the market over the next several years? Benzinga investigated Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) new game consoles to find out. Launch Lineup First and foremost, it should be said that PlayStation 4 and Xbox One...
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China's Video Game Approval Could Be Worth Billions To Sony, Microsoft And Nintendo
Friday, September 27, 2013 - 12:24pm | 765Read More...In January, China Daily USA reported that China might lift its ban on the sale of video games. "We are reviewing the policy and have conducted some surveys and held discussions with other ministries on the possibility of opening up the game console market," an unnamed source from the Ministry of...
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Will Microsoft's Policy Reversal Save Xbox One? (MSFT)
Thursday, June 20, 2013 - 3:13pm | 925Read More...They said it couldn't be done. From former company executives who more or less told consumers to deal with it to analysts who did not believe it was feasible, many doubted that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) could or would change its DRM policies for Xbox One. This week the company changed most of...
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PlayStation 4 Could Retail for More Than $400
Friday, February 8, 2013 - 3:21pm | 662Read More...PlayStation 3 set records as one of the most expensive game consoles ever released. When Sony (NYSE: SNE) shipped the console in 2006, it offered two different packages, one at $500 and another at $600. Since the former was only available in limited quantities, most consumers ended up buying the...
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Is it Too Soon or Too Late for PlayStation 4, Xbox 720?
Friday, January 6, 2012 - 10:19am | 1560Read More...The unveiling will presumably occur at E3 (the Electronic Entertainment Expo), which is scheduled to take place on June 5-7 at the LA Convention Center in Los Angeles. MCV did not provide any further details. However, My Nintendo News picked up on an interesting tweet from one of the publication's...
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Review: Pinball Hall of Fame – The Williams Collection (3DS Edition)
Thursday, October 27, 2011 - 1:49pm | 597Read More...Talk to a so-called expert about the best way to experience pinball and they will always say the same thing: you have to play it on a real machine. Talk to anyone else and they will give you two recommendations: play with a real table or pick up a copy of Pinball Hall of Fame: The Gottlieb...
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Infographic: The Social Evolution of Gaming
Friday, August 26, 2011 - 11:26am | 80Read More...Visual.ly has an interesting look at the social evolution of video games. And guess what? Zynga and Apple have very little to do with it. From the NES and Doom to PlayStation 2 and Nintendo DS, the evolution was subtle but vastly more extensive than people thought. Follow me @LouisBedigian
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Fight Night Champion A One-Two Punch Of Entertainment
Monday, March 21, 2011 - 5:02pm | 607Read More...For years, sports game developers have slowly attempted to prove that it was possible to tell a story within the confines of a basketball, football, baseball, or hockey environment. Whether or not this trend started with Sony's (NYSE: SNE) “The Life” (a short-lived story mode that Sony designed for...
