The PS5 Pro has been rumored for over a year and has proven to be exactly what most people expected: a similar-looking machine that runs games with incrementally better graphics and performance. The only thing people didn’t expect was the price of 700 dollarsand the price shock has turned some fairly straightforward discussions about the ...
Picture: Thomas Kronsteiner (Getty Images) If you thought the current landscape of video game consoles and handhelds was already crowded, then all of Russia has something to say about it. At least Russian President Vladimir Putin, because he gave a mandate: produce Russian video game consoles to compete with the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. ...
Peter Moore knows a lot about making video game consoles. He was Chief Operating Officer and President of Sega of America from 1999 to 2003, the man behind the Xbox and Xbox 360 at Microsoft from 2003 to 2007, and Executive Vice President of EA from 2007 to 2017. (You may remember him for his ...
Picture: Nintendo When a new console comes out, getting one in the first year is often a hellish undertaking. So, with that Rumors about Switch 2 Potential buyers will be pleased to know that Nintendo reportedly wants to make sure that if you want a Switch successor, you can get one. Most new video game ...
picture: Nintendo / Kotaku Now that 2022 is over (thank goodness) the NPD group has been doing their thing and collecting and processing all the sales data that comes up. Now we can look back over the last 12 months and see which games and consoles have sold the best and how much money people ...
picture: Anthony McLaughlin (Shutterstock) Video game consoles are very expensive pieces of computer hardware packed in relatively small boxes and packaged with expensive controllers. So it’s not surprising to hear that Microsoft doesn’t make any money from selling Xbox consoles. In fact, it’s losing as much as $200 on every console sold these days. Previously, ...
picture: Xbox/Nintendo/Sony/Kotaku/tostphoto (Shutterstock) Today Sony announced that in most regions The PlayStation 5 would see a price increase as a result of inflation. In response to this news, people began to wonder if other console manufacturers would make similar price increases. The answer seems to be no, at least for now. But both Nintendo and ...
A customer holds a 60GB PlayStation 3 at a launch event in Tokyo. photo: YOSHIKAZU TSUNO / AFP (Getty Images) Can you believe it? The PlayStation 3 was launched 15 years ago today. It was an expensive console and a messy start with hype Overload and some really bad press conferences. But Sony hasn’t given ...
