PS3 Won’t Sell As Much As PS2, Since Competition Was Less In The Old Days, Says Former Sony Boss
Phil Harrison, former Sony boss thinks the PS3 won’t sell as much as the PS. He told that the PS2 in its days did not have so much competitors to deal with and was the ”unreachable” console in its life-span. The PS3 with competitors like Wii and the Xbox 360 will have low sales and […]
Crytek: PC “A Generation Ahead” Of Consoles, But Being Held Back
Crytek, makers of the upcoming Crysis 2 has claimed that PCs are already “a generation ahead” of PS3 and Xbox 360 but developers’ lack of support on the PC is holding it back. “As long as the current console generation exists and as long as we keep pushing the PC as well, the more difficult […]
3D Will Make Games More Accessible According To Sony
Sony believes that 3D gaming will make video games more accessible to a wider audience. Speaking at Develop in Liverpool, SCEE’s Mick Hocking said: “We can make more games more accessible with 3D,” insisted Hocking, speaking in a conference session titled ‘Seeing is Believing: 3D a New Creative Medium for Games’. “Doing things like the […]
Black Ops Takes First Position In Japanese Sales Charts
Call of Duty Black Ops (Subtitled edition) has seized the first position on Japanese sales charts shortly within a week after it’s launch in Japan. This comes after it was previously reported Black Ops was still ruling the UK sales chart. The PS3 version outsold the Xbox 360 version by taking the 1st position whereas […]
Sony: “We Misjudged Demand For Move”
According to Sony, they didn’t expect PlayStation Move to sell this well and exceeded their pre-expectations resulting in shortages of supply. Even Sony’s senior vice president of marketing in the US Peter Dille, has also expressed that US stores are running out of PlayStation move controller and has urged buyers to act fast when they […]
Activision CEO: “We Will Never, Ever Charge For CoD Multiplayer”
There you have it, speaking in an interview with IndustryGamers, Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg stated that they will never charge an additional subscription fee for Call of Duty multiplayer. He said, “The experience you have out of the box, connecting with the online community to play Call of Duty is absolutely integral to the experience […]
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Ships 1 Million In US and Europe
Konami revealed that it has shipped a million copies of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow to various stores over the United States and Europe since the game’s release in October this year. The game received high rankings from critics. President of Konami, Shinji Hirano said “Castlevania has truly reinvented itself with its move to next gen […]
Kinect Up To A “Rough Start” In Japan
Kinect may not be doing so hot in Japan. Taketo Matsuo, merchandiser for retail chain Tsutaya, said that the motion cam is “off to a pretty rough start”, 1UP reports. In a weekly retail forecast, he said Kinect was “targeting light users” but that most buyers were “existing [Xbox 360] owners” rather than new customers. […]
Real Life Black Ops Vet: Make Call Of Duty More Realistic
Meet Wolfgang Hammersmith, real-life Black Ops veteran with his latest book “‘Beyond the Call of Duty: Gunfight! 10 True Stories From Modern Warfare And Black Ops’.” In an interview with Gamasutra, he has said that Call of Duty games should be more realistic: “What I would think about changing is, let’s have a way to […]
Assassin’s Creed : Brotherhood Xbox 360 Version Beats PS3
Assassin’s Creed : Brotherhood which is reported as the “the biggest ever Assassin’s Creed launch” in the UK by stat-trackking site GfK Chart-Track, sold better on Xbox 360 than PS3. The game obtained the second position in UK Game Rankings Chart and is just 63,000 copies behind Call of Duty: Black Ops. Chart-Track said that the Xbox 360 […]
Call Of Duty : Black Ops Still Ruling The UK Game Rankings Chart
Call Of Duty : Black Ops still remains UK’s top game, holding off other high-profile games like the recently released Assassin’s Creed : Brotherhood and For Speed : Hot Pursuit. Call Of Duty : Black Ops continues its second week as the best game in UK. As Assassins Creed : Brotherhood takes the second spot and Need […]
Kinect Launches In Japan
Note: This article has been edited by The Gaming Wiz on account of incorrect info. After going on sale in North-America earlier this month , Kinect is now up for sale in Japan. Between 150 and 200 people lined-up outside the the official launch center at Yodobashi Camera in Akihabara. Celebrities at the launch included wrestler […]
Back In The Game: Infinity Ward “Reconstructed”, Says Vivendi CEO
The Infinity-Ward-Activision debacle, with heads Jason West and Vince Zampella and others leaving the studio may have had taken its toll on the studio. But they’re certainly not out of the picture and is now back at former strength. Vivendi chairman and CEO Jean-Bernard Levy said at an investors call that Activision has “got over” […]
”Kinect & Move In Short Supply This Holiday” Says GameStop
Sony and Microsoft’s motion sensing hardware tools Kinect and Move are expected to be hot sellers in the upcoming 2010 holiday. GameStop president Tony Bartel predicts that it will create a ”Wii” like phenomenon. He also said that Kinect and Move are in short supply for this holiday. Bartel told on a call to investors, […]
