console wars

What Games Are: Reinventing The Games Console Half Way Won’t Work

You've got to feel bad for Microsoft. After years spent trying to find ways to expand its Xbox idea, it's now having to revert some of them and go back to being a regular old games console. The compan

New book details chip drama between 360 and PS3

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/ed-ai787_book12_dv_20081230152459.jpg" /> If you enjoyed the article from a few months back about <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2008/0

Dreamcast: It (was) thinking

The Guardian has a pretty cool interview up with Peter Moore, president of EA Sports. Back in the day, he was head of Sega of America. In fact, he was the guy who killed the Dreamcast. As awesome as t

Sony casually reminds us that PS3 Network is free (and Xbox Live costs money)

[photopress:ps3freexblnot.jpg,full,center] What’s a guaranteed way to stir the hornet’s nest that is the console wars? If you’re Sony you start an ad campaign reminding people that i

Wouldn't a single video game system be better for everyone?

[photopress:onevideogamesystem.jpg,full,center] Should there be only one video game system? It’d make financial sense for developers and would make it easier for the consumer—”Should

Nintendo Exec Claims "Victory In Europe"

Now because Tech.co.uk thinks citing exact sources is a bunch of rubbish, there’s no proof that Nintendo exec. Reggie Fils Aime said that the Wii is a “Victory in Europe.” But for no