Platform or not, Microsoft’s Xbox business is booming

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Next week is the big E3 video-game convention, and Microsoft’s Xbox team this morning kicked off the competitive jockeying by releasing a new slate of statistics to demonstrate the momentum behind its Xbox 360 console and Xbox Live online service. Xbox Live now has nearly 35 million active members, the company says, and the Xbox 360… Read More…

Xbox 360 leads in U.S. again; Microsoft says Kinect games will triple this year

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Microsoft’s Xbox 360 continued its reign atop the U.S. console market in April, according to data from the NPD Group market research firm cited by the Redmond company this afternoon. Microsoft also released internal sales numbers for two key games for its Kinect motion controller, and said the number of games made to work with… Read More…

Wii sequel in 2012: Can Nintendo top PS3, Xbox 360?

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In the process of announcing its latest financial results this morning, Nintendo confirmed that it plans to release the successor to its hit Wii game console in 2012, after previewing the new system at the E3 Expo in Los Angeles this June. The company, which has its North American HQ in Redmond, gave no further… Read More…

Xbox 360 on top of U.S. console market, again

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Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console sold 430,000 units in the U.S. in March, up 28 percent from the same month a year ago, according to data released today by the NPD Group market research firm. That makes it the top-selling console in the U.S. for nine out of the past 10 months, according to NPD. The… Read More…

Microsoft unveils new Xbox hardware … for game developers

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  Microsoft today announced a new piece of Xbox hardware that could make Xbox 360 games better, in the long run. But don’t look for it in stores. It’s a new version of the Xbox Development Kit (XDK) that outside developers use to create games for the console. Microsoft, competing with Sony’s PlayStation 3 for… Read More…