Everyone is obsessed with video games in this technological era. Simultaneously, the contenders in the gaming industry are introducing new and powerful consoles. Some have high definition 4K resolutions, offering beautiful displays and can capture every detail in action, while the simpler ones emphasize first-party title games and functionality. If you are thinking about the […]
For the past few years, handheld gaming has been an ailing beast; in fact, with Sony’s Playstation (PS) Vita likely to be axed for good and sales of the Nintendo 3DS trending as declining overall, it wouldn’t be unreasonable to think that the plug has finally been pulled on a niche of gaming that began […]
In the unfounded rumors department, the idea that Sony might be making a “Playman” to compete with the Nintendo Switch has been making the rounds, thanks to a nifty non-Sony product concept demo. The fact that there’s an older Sony patent – even though we know that patents often don’t lead to anything – for a Switch-like […]
There has been buzz of late about former Sony Computer Entertainment America CEO, Jack Tretton, recently speaking to IGN about his almost 20 year career related to PlayStation. What got the most play were his comments involving the PlayStation Vita and why it failed, and also, in general on the state of the dedicated gaming handheld […]
Videogame hell has frozen over and something tons of Nintendo fans have been clamoring for for years has finally happened. Nintendo will be releasing a TV game version of their classic NES console called the NES Classic Edition on November 11. It will be a miniature version of the iconic boxy NES design that forgoes the […]
In an already infamous “it’s not about the specs” type of manifesto, Nintendo of America President and COO, Reggie Fils-Aimé, showed that the more things change with Nintendo, the more they stay the same. While it’s true that almost every Nintendo system post Super NES has not featured the most technologically competitive overall hardware […]
While my prognostication skills are usually spot-on, when it came to the release of the Nintendo NX, which I thought would be previewed at E3 2016 in June and released holiday 2016, I was rather off (see here and here). According to Nintendo, the only major unveil at E3 will be a playable demo of the […]
Thanks to NeoGAF for the heads-up on an as-of-yet unconfirmed report that Nintendo will officially be ceasing production of the Wii U by the end of this year. This follows several months of “stock shortages” in Japan, as well as the official end of production for select Wii U accessories. As you may know, I’ve been […]
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