GameKlip: Android meets PS3 with new video game accessory from UW student

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The idea of using a PlayStation 3 controller to play games on an Android device isn’t new. For some gamers it’s superior to using on-screen controls. But a 23-year-old University of Washington student named Ryan French has figured out a way to improve the experience. His product is called the GameKlip, and it has been getting… Read More…

Sony hides PlayStation 3 sales data as profits fall

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Maybe I’m a nerd, but one of the things I look forward to each quarter is the release of Sony’s earnings, because they provide the final data point that we need to update the status of worldwide game console sales — showing how the PlayStation 3 stacks up against the Nintendo Wii and Microsoft’s Xbox 360…. Read More…

Xbox 360 marks 18 months atop U.S. console market

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Microsoft’s Xbox 360 sold 257,000 units in the U.S. in June, topping Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Nintendo’s Wii for the 18th consecutive month, according to NPD Group research cited by the Redmond company. That translates into 47 percent market share among current-generation consoles. The latest numbers were down considerably from the 507,000 Xbox 360 units… Read More…

PS3 sucks less than Xbox and Wii in tough Q1 for consoles

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Sony reported its latest financial results overnight, and the numbers put the PlayStation 3 back atop the worldwide console market for the March quarter. But that ain’t saying much. In a sign of the current weakness of the game console market, the PS3 reclaimed the title despite seeing its unit sales decline to 1.9 million units,… Read More…

PS3 gets Amazon video app, Xbox 360 still stuck with workaround, for now

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If you own a PlayStation 3 and subscribe to Amazon Prime, it’s your lucky day. Amazon today announced the availability of an Amazon Instant Video app for the PS3, making the Sony console the first to offer the Seattle company’s streaming video service. Amazon joins Netflix, Hulu Plus and other video services on the PS3…. Read More…

Chart: Kinect surpasses 25% of Xbox 360 installed base

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One piece of news disclosed by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer here at the Consumer Electronics Show last night was that cumulative sales of Kinect have surpassed 18 million units since the motion controller for Xbox 360 launched in the fall of 2010. In addition, cumulative Xbox 360 sales have topped 66 million units worldwide, and… Read More…

Chart: How we’re spending time on our game consoles

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Millions of people are waking up to new video-game consoles under the tree this morning. But how they end up using their new consoles might surprise you. And it’s likely to differ depending on which console they receive. Data released recently by the Nielsen market research firm showed some interesting differences in usage patterns among the three… Read More…

Microsoft’s Xbox 360 rules the U.S. console market, again

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In a down month for video games, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 continued to buck the trend in May, according to new data out this afternoon. Microsoft sold 270,000 Xbox 360s in the U.S. in May, up 39 percent over the same month last year, according to data compiled by the NPD Group market research firm. The Microsoft… Read More…

Apple, Xbox set to battle for attention of tech world

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It’s hard to remember a week with so many big tech companies staging so many potentially big announcements. It kicks off at 9:30 a.m. Pacific time Monday  morning with Microsoft’s annual Xbox news conference at the E3 video-game convention in Los Angeles. Half an hour later, Steve Jobs & Co. will take the stage for… 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…