One of the biggest publishers in the video-games industry, Activision, used its recent earning release conference to predict hardware sales in 2008
Activision expects Nintendo Wii’s reign in the US to continue in 2008 with over 6 million expected sold units at retail. The Xbox 360 is expected to come second with 4-5 million sold consoles, while Sony’s PS3 coming in third with 3-4 million expected shipped units.
In the handheld department, Activision predicts that the combined sales of the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP will top 10 million sold units.
Activision’s predictions don’t match EA’s, who last week declared it believes the PS3 will outsell the 360 both in the US and Europe.
Source: Next-Gen
February 10th, 2008
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Steam, Valve’s online video-games delivery service reports a massive growth, reaching the 15 million accounts mark.
Influenced by the digital release of games like The Orange Box, Call of Duty 4 or Bioshock, Steam’s evolution is very impressive, with the company reporting year-over-year sales increasing 158%.
And the future looks even better for Valve, as it prepares to launch Steamworks, which gives users options to add auto updates, social networking, product key authentication, matchmaking and copy protection for free.
February 10th, 2008
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IBM will soon introduce a smaller, less power-hungry processor that might make PS3’s price drop even more.
The Sony PlayStation 3 is powered by an IBM 65nm SOI processor, a very powerful thing but also very large in size and energy-consuming. But it’s about to become obsolete, as it will be replaced by a smaller, more efficient 45nm high-k processor.
This new chip will consume 40% less energy than the 65nm one, which means less cooling is necessary, thus making the console cheaper to produce and more reliable.
It’s yet unknown if this will make Sony lower the price of its console even more, but in any case this is great news for everybody.
February 10th, 2008
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