Nintendo

Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) made two sizable announcements today. The first -- a price cut for Wii U -- has been anticipated for months. Effective September 20, the deluxe version will retail for $299. Nintendo's second announcement was a bit more surprising. The company unveiled a new handheld game...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has reportedly lowered the number of Xbox One units that it expects to ship to retailers in 2013. According to a DigiTimes translation of a report by the Chinese-language publication Economic Daily News, only 6.2 million Xbox One units will arrive before the end of the...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer will retire in the next 12 months. The announcement, which was made just 30 minutes before the market open Friday morning, came more than a year after Ballmer reportedly told his colleagues when he planned to retire. At the time, no one knew when he would...

First Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) was expected to add apps (and most notably games) to Apple TV. Then Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) was rumored to be developing its first game console as a counterattack to Apple's efforts. Now Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is rumored to be getting into the market as well....

Over the last two years, Samsung (OTC: SSNLF) has popularized the large smartphone concept with the Galaxy Note series. Now the South Korean tech giant is attempting to popularize another (somewhat familiar) idea: the flip phone. Instead of building a razor-thin device like Motorola's (NASDAQ: GOOG...

After delaying Pikmin 3, Wii Fit U, Wii Party U and numerous others, Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) (OTC Pink: NTDOY) is attempting to fill its software void with a spate of smartphone games. Instead of developing its own games for smartphones (which Nintendo has repeatedly stated that it will never do),...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has received a fair amount of complaints for choosing to design Xbox One to interfere with the way users play, sell and share their games. In the days after Xbox One was unveiled, consumers looked to Sony (NYSE: SNE) to see if it would copy Microsoft's strategy and...

Nearly 13 years ago, thousands of consumers lined up to purchase Sony's (NYSE: SNE) second game console, PlayStation 2. On a per store basis, the lines were rather short. Most Target (NYSE: TGT) locations, for example, received no more than a couple dozen people who were willing to wait overnight...

Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: EA) CFO Blake Jorgensen has confirmed that, contrary to the previous comments from company spokesperson Jeff Brown (and a barrage of negative tweets from an EA engineer), the company is developing games for Nintendo's (OTC: NTDOY) console. According to IGN, Jorgensen made...

Is the timing coincidental or a sign of things to come? Target.com (NYSE: TGT) has lowered the price of Nintendo's (OTC: NTDOY) latest console, Wii U, from $299.99 to $239.99. According to GameSpot, Target has only chosen to reduce the price of the basic 8GB version. That is not the only Wii U-...

In roughly 24 hours, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) will hold a press conference to unveil the first tease of the company's third game console. Commonly referred to as "Xbox 720" or "Xbox Next," the new console is rumored to be called "Xbox Fusion" or "Xbox Infinity." Microsoft will introduce the...

Activision (NASDAQ: ATVI), the publisher behind the hugely successful Call of Duty franchise, has repeatedly stated that it has been disappointed by the launch of Nintendo's (OTC: NTDOY) latest console, Wii U. Earlier this month, Avalanche Studios (the developer behind the Grand Theft Auto-...

In 2012, Yusuf Mehdi -- the man in charge of Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) interactive entertainment business -- told the Los Angeles Times that the average Xbox-owning household spends an average of 84 hours a month using Xbox Live. While gaming continues to be a popular draw for the console, it has...

In just over three weeks, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) will unveil its third game console. Tentatively referred to as “Xbox 720” by the gaming press, the new machine is expected to contain a new version of Kinect, the ability to run multiple games simultaneously, and a new feature called IllumiRoom...

Last fall, Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) projected that it would sell 5.5 million Wii U consoles by the end of March. In February, The New York Times reported that Nintendo had reduced its sales expectations to just four million units. This week IGN reported that Nintendo was unable to meet that goal....