May 3rd, 2009 by Griffin McElroy
Compared to last Spring’s outlandish software sales figures (fueled by the release of Super Smash Bros. Brawl and GTA IV), this year’s stats aren’t inspiring much confidence in gaming industry investors. In fact, many are anxiously awaiting the launch of new hardware to provide a quick sales boost — but according to industry analyst Michael Pachter, they shouldn’t hold their breath: By his estimation, new hardware won’t be hitting store shelves until at least 2013.
Pachter said that publishers would be hesitant to adopt new hardware considering their investments in the current console cycle have yet to adequately pay off. There’s one exception — Pachter expects the oft-rumored high-definition Wii may appear some time in 2010.
Analyst: Next console cycle isn’t coming until 2013 originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 02 May 2009 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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February 10th, 2009 by Majed Athab
“A lot of our elementary school children have Nintendo [DS]. Why can’t our companies develop products like that?” These were the words of South Korean president Lee Myung-bak during his visit to the Ministry of Knowledge Economy. Lee wants to bolster the Korean game industry to rival the success of Nintendo, but local game companies agree that stagnant software support in Korea won’t see that happening anytime soon.
It’s for that very same reason that GamePark Holdings’ GP2X (a Korean-made handheld system which relies on homebrew) isn’t exactly flying off the shelves. Without any sort of big-name software like Mario or Zelda included, Mr. Lee’s dream won’t come true. This is a sentiment shared by Korean developers in every sector - from mobile gaming to internet-based and PC software. If the Korean government could find a way of supporting the software industry better, helping out developers like Pentavision and NCsoft, then maybe Korea might get the ball rolling.
[Via Game Daily]
Korean game industry should be more like Nintendo, says president originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 24th, 2007 by Shashank
So you always complain about the heating problems in your PC not again, the guys at ProStreet has made a PC case that comes with lot of fans 66 to be exact infact the whole PC case is made up of cooling fans only. There are fans everywhere top, bottom, left pane, right pane all covered up with fans. Here is one more image:
So now you must have got the idea in case your PC too suffers with heating problems .
Goodluck :wink:
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November 20th, 2007 by Chris Greenhough
Filed under: News
Nintendo might well be
cracking the whip on the Wii production line, but pretty much everybody still seems to be feeling the pinch of shortages. UK shoppers, for example, are becoming increasingly desperate for the console, with online retailers now getting in the region of 100,000 requests a day from panicky, possibly
hyperventilating Brits.
Meanwhile, Amazon's UK arm recently sold 1,000 machines in under 10 minutes, while the console on its own is typically going for around £300 ($615) on eBay. In other words, Wii fever is hitting some quite ridiculous heights on this side of the pond, and if Reggie is to be believed, things
ain't going to get any better in the immediate future.
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November 13th, 2007 by astrotriforce
NPD has announced that they will offer hardware/console sales numbers for good.
This comes on the heels of a firestorm that headed their way last week when the industry-tracking group NPD stated that they would no longer provide hardware sales figures to the masses, they would only be available to subscribers of their service.
But after the big outcry from gamers and fanboys alike (who love to trump out sales numbers of their favorite system) NPD has now changed their tune and has stated that, with the console makers approval, they will now permanently add hardware sales figures to their monthly updated data.
“In retrospect, I guess I took certain things for granted and was surprised at the response,” said NPD representative David Riley.
Initially hardware sales were not tracked, and the NPD only started supplying them in November 2006, when the PS3 and Wii joined the Xbox 360 on retail shelves. But it wasn’t supposed to be permanent. “We began bending the rules because of the incredible media demand but the intent was never to provide these on a regular basis,” Riley said.
It’s definitely good to know that the NPD will continue to provide the media with sales numbers. I really do think it’s an important part of this industry and it’s good to get sales figures from an independent source that’s not the console maker, who like to spin numbers to their advantage. Just let the numbers speak for themselves.
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November 4th, 2007 by Shashank
This is a handy little mouse which will help you in making self sticky labels for your freshly written optical media and also works great for printing reminders, memos and phone numbers instantly whenever you need it.
So the next time you are writing a dvd you won’t have to search for the lost marker this innovative label printer mouse will do the job. The mouse has a inbuilt thermal print mechanism which requires a thermal roll paper inserted in the back of the mouse see the pic below.
via 7gadgets
Casio label printer mouse product page
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October 29th, 2007 by Shashank
A Melbourne PhD Student named John Papandriopoulos has developed a breakthrough technology that will enable us to surf the internet at blazing fast speeds upto 250 Mbps through our existing telephone/broadband copper wires and that too without investing in optic fibres and other expensive hardware. The new technology is totally software based that your ISP needs to install at their exchange/control room and nothing needs to be done at your side.
How this technology works:
The technology which is completely software based uses the mathematical modelling to remove the interference which slows down the downloading speeds and thus breaking the barrier of data that can be transfered without much disturbance and coping with our need for speed.
John Papandriopoulos took a year to complete this wonderful research and this development has also won him a Chancellor’s Prize for Excellence in the PhD.
This is indeed a good news for the Indian broadband industry as this could really transform the Indian broadband scenario but then it takes time from development and becoming available to general public. John has filed patent applications in US and Australia for this technology and it is said to take 3-4 years before it becomes widely available.
Now think of present Indian broadband speeds..Pathetic
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October 19th, 2007 by Shashank
This is just one of the most irresistible laptop that every gamer on this planet has ever dreamt of. The new Acme laptop has got three BIG high resolution screens of 17-inch each and gets folded like a briefcase. Just imagine playing Need For Speed in this three screen wonder just the thought of it makes me feel like a utter geek. Imagine the first impression of this gadget on your geeky friends they will just bow their heads down to this brilliant piece of display hardware.
Inside specifications are :
- Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4GHz processor
- 2GB RAM
- Dual nVidia 8800GTX cards in SLI mode
- 8 channel audio, Firewire 400 and USB connections
- Dual Gigabit LAN
- Not info about pricing is available yet
More details can be found at Acme LPG370TS product page
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October 16th, 2007 by Shashank
Hitachi has claimed a breakthrough in Hard disk drive technology that would result in HDD’s for storage space upto whooping 4 Terabytes for desktops and 1 Terabytes for laptops. The breakthrough is based on new invention in nanotechnology that would shrink the size of the read/write heads to only 30-50nm in size.
The new heads are based on magnetoresistive techonology known as CPP-GMR (current perpendicular-to-the-plane giant magnetoresistive). The whole idea lies behind in increasing the hard disk recording densities by using smaller and smaller heads which will in turn provide huge increase in densities upto 500 gigabytes per square inch which is approximately four times the present generation of hard drives.
There is a great competition going on in this storage technology segment we have already seen a couple of storage technologies already which you can find below.
Fujitsu’s new Nanohole technology 1TB/inch
Mempile Teradisk using 3D optical recording technology
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October 14th, 2007 by Shashank
In a recent development by Fujutsu, a new e-paper technology has been showcased at
CREATEC in Japan. The company has this time unveiled “e-reader” which is extremely portable and is of the size of A5 size paper. The epaper is light weight, high contrast can easily read in its 4096 color display.The best part is that the e-paper has a whooping battery life of 50 hours which is freakin awesome.
The great battery life has been made possible because of its ability to hold an image once it is displayed without drawing any power further as long as you are reading the same page. Thus this epaper will give you the best experience of digital world as it can also hold around 5000 ebooks in its 4 GB SD card.
The new e-paper is named as Flepia and is available in two sizes A4 and A5 format weighs 320 or 480 grams respectively and are just 12mm thick. The new e-paper can be updated over wireless LAN and also comes with inbuilt USB 2.0 support.
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