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Will NVIDIA's Tegra X1 Dethrone The PlayStation 4 And Xbox One?
Tuesday, January 6, 2015 - 10:29am | 483In 2014, NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) told the world that it had built a chip that could bring Xbox One-quality graphics to a mobile device. Now the company is repeating that message with the all-new Tegra X1. It might sound impressive on paper and perform well in demo form, but is this...
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Is Xbox One Really Beating PlayStation 4?
Tuesday, December 16, 2014 - 12:30pm | 486Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) celebrated a major victory in November after NPD announced that Xbox One had sold 1.2 million units. Curiously, no specific sales figures were provided for PlayStation 4, but Sony Corp (NYSE: SNE) was thought to have sold between 750,000 and 800,000 units...
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PlayStation 4 Vs. Xbox One: Will Price Cuts Have An Impact This Holiday?
Wednesday, November 12, 2014 - 1:43pm | 638Sony Corp's (NYSE: SNE) PlayStation 4 has dominated the market since it was released in November 2013. The console reached a new milestone in August after Sony announced that it had sold more than 10 million units. According to GameSpot, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) posted a blog...
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Will Microsoft Release An Apple Watch Competitor In 2015?
Wednesday, October 22, 2014 - 1:22pm | 566Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is rumored to be developing a smartwatch. The device is expected to have more than two days of battery life and could be unveiled before the end of the year. Not much else is known about Microsoft's plans, but a previous report claimed that the company...
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3 Reasons Not To Count Out Nintendo & The Wii U
Wednesday, August 6, 2014 - 12:54pm | 724Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) enjoyed a nice sales boost during June quarter, moving 510,000 units of its latest console. During the year-ago period, Nintendo sold just 160,000 units. Despite the gains, Nintendo has only sold a total of 6.68 million Wii U units since the console was released in...
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Can New Hardware Save GameStop?
Tuesday, August 5, 2014 - 2:33pm | 746Benchmark analyst Michael Hickey recently predicted that digital downloads could replace physical game discs within the next five years. That may be good news for publishers that want to sell directly to consumers, but it could be the beginning of the end for GameStop (NYSE: GME). Could new...
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Don't Expect A New Nintendo Console Before 2018
Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - 1:28pm | 564Longer 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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3 Reasons Video Game Sales Will Decline In 2019
Friday, July 25, 2014 - 4:11pm | 979Domestic video game sales increased in May and June, but the upward trend could come to an end in 2019. Eva Hunyadi, a research analyst at Juniper Research, recently authored a report about the future of video games. While Hunyadi is optimistic about present-day sales, she is concerned about...
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5 Companies That Should Invest In Normal's Custom-Fit Earphones
Friday, July 11, 2014 - 12:21pm | 945Is Normal the new normal for earphone manufacturing? If the company's unique concept takes off, it could spawn an entirely new subset within this growing industry. Unlike Beats Electronics and other one-size-fits-all manufacturers, Normal is a startup with one goal in mind: to produce custom...
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Best Buy Offers New 'Destiny' Beta With In-Store Demo On July 19
Thursday, July 10, 2014 - 12:54pm | 625Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) customers will be able to play Destiny at select stores on Saturday, July 19. The three-hour event (which is scheduled to run from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.) will be held at 71 Best Buy stores nationwide. All participating locations can be found at BestBuy.com/GamingEvents....
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Top 4 Video Game Brands: Holiday 2013 Vs. 1H 2014
Tuesday, July 8, 2014 - 11:46am | 196Sony (NYSE: SNE) led the pack last Christmas, but iSpot data shows that another company persevered in 2014. "When you're talking about gaming, there's definitely the overall trend of the casual game companies getting more and more into the game and upping their spend on TV," Sean Muller, co-founder...
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Xbox, PlayStation TV Ad Spending Could Reach $125 Million In 2014
Tuesday, July 1, 2014 - 11:40am | 535Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) are likely to spend more money promoting their new game consoles in 2014. For the first five months of the year, Sony dominated the airwaves, spending $59 million to advertise the PlayStation brand across 24 different TV networks. Microsoft spent $...
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Apple TV Vs. Android TV Vs. Fire TV Vs. PlayStation TV
Friday, June 27, 2014 - 11:27am | 1386Who will win the battle for streaming TV domination? In a broader sense, the trophy has already gone to Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). Both companies sold more than 80 million units of their last game consoles, which also function as media streaming devices. However, when game...
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Weekly Highlights: Sony And Microsoft Vie For Domination, LeBron James' Big Payday And More
Monday, June 16, 2014 - 12:46pm | 270During the first week of June, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) ruled the media with countless headlines. Last week, Apple took a backseat while Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) took center stage, thanks to their presentations at the 2014 Electronic Entertainment Expo. Neither company...
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The Best And Worst Of E3 2014
Monday, June 16, 2014 - 9:45am | 96The 2014 Electronic Entertainment Expo is officially over. While gamers will be sad to see the show go, attendees are likely too tired to realize that the three-day game-fest has come to an end. This year's show was definitely an improvement over the last few years, but it (like all E3 events) had...