Sentences with phrase «marketed as a console»

It's being marketed as a console quality handheld, it needs more big games.

While Nintendo continues to confuse me with their marketing choices (like marketing this as a console rather than a portable, and maintaining 3DS), having such an awesome portable is just great.

Not exact matches

If you're in the market for a new game console — and you're not a crazy person like me who buys every game console, regardless of logic — you're looking for one to serve as many of your wants as possible.

Turtle Beach Corporation, the market leader in console video game headsets, has over the years developed audio technology that enables gamers to hear soft video game sounds such as footsteps around the corner and gun reloads off in the distance.

Video game maker Activision Blizzard announced on Monday plans buy «Candy Crush Saga» creator King Digital Entertainment for $ 5.9 billion, Reuters reported, as the heavyweight of console and PC gaming makes a major push into the faster - growing mobile market.

Christine Arrington, senior analyst for games at IHS Technology, says that while Apple TV isn't worrying the console market just yet, it could eventually establish itself as a real player in that space.

This suggests there is significant room for growth of the console market's digital channel — and the profitability of the associated console makers and publishers (console makers are also often the publisher as well).

And as the recent, technically troubled launch of publisher / developer Blizzard's record - selling Diablo III for PC suggests, it isn't clear that the industry has the database and server muscle to handle multiple AAA games (such as Call of Duty) being sold digitally for the much larger console market.

Nintendo has struggled in the gaming console market, following a disappointing run of its Wii U console, which sold only about 13.36 million units as of September 2016 since its launch in late 2012.

Other big companies such as Microsoft, Activision Publishing, and Capcom have been investing in growing the console market with games such as Halo 5, Call of Duty: Black Ops, and Street Fighter IV.

While Nintendo shares jumped more than 10 percent in Tokyo, according to a CNN report, China's gaming market has proliferated for over a decade in the absence of consoles through the popularity of PCs, mobile devices and online gaming — leaving questions as to whether consumers will choose to re-adapt.

Kinect, launched on Nov 4 as an add - on for Microsoft's Xbox 360 console, has seen its sales on the rise after it hit the gray market in China two weeks after its official launch.

There are potential areas of growth, including increasing the tie ratio between games and consoles, which will improve as platform libraries (games) grow, and accessory sales, which will depend on a myriad of factors, including the continued push towards new market opportunities (e.g., toy - based games).

What's more, it's a fast growing market segment, as console sales wane and the number of gaming enthusiasts skyrocket.

Mobile devices such as phones, cameras and gaming consoles are one of the fastest expanding markets.

The milestone encompasses sales within the console's launch regions, such as Europe, North America and «other Xbox One launch markets.»

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Snipperclips feels like the start of something great, Splatoon continues to shine and the option to play the best Mario Kart game to date on the go are all big plusses for a console that feels like a capable home machine as well as the most impressive handheld on the market.

However, since the survival crafting title launched its PvP mode for free back in September 2017, Fortnite Battle Royale has witnessed massive success as a PUBG competitor, not least because it beat Bluehole to the console market as the first free Battle Royale game on PS4 and Xbox One.

According to the NPD, it serves as both a viable third console, but also a replacement for both the Nintendo 3DS and PlayStation Vita markets.

Strategy games are healthy on the PC, but in the increasingly explosion - heavy world of mainstream console game marketing, anything so thought - intensive and potentially intimidating to casuals has been popular as arsenic cake for years.

During the nine months ended December 31, 2017, our industry saw major growth in the market for home video games, both in terms of software as well as hardware, due to greater penetration of the PlayStation 4 home video game console and the strong performance of the new Nintendo Switch game console.

I do have concerns over the suitability of this kind of game on the PlayStation 4 as it is in no way harnessing the power or functionality of the console, but it is definitely offering an experience which perhaps plays to an underrepresented part of the market and it makes a strong offering.

It even seems as if all of the good ones never really consider the console as a viable market for the genre.

The reason for this, according to Sony, is that the intended target market for the console is «active» gamers; however, the publisher did state that as with the PS3, it anticipates that it will eventually broaden the channels of distribution for the Vita in the future.

Nintendo of America's marketing push for the Wii U continues, as their latest television advertisements for the console's software have emerged.

One Kia official says the automaker set its sights squarely on market - leader Dodge Caravan, and the minivan sports several successful features from other products as well — such as the Honda Odyssey center console fold - out tray.

A year after that comes the manual to all markets, which will have a completely redesigned central console as well due to the different location of the shifter.

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An OLED screen on the centre console as seen in certain markets would have been a nice touch.

[16] The interior is light grey upholstery combined with black carpets, although German - market cars appear as regular cars with light grey carpets and regular center console.

It is not unlike of Microsoft to launch their next generation gaming console and as speculated the news is here - the Xbox One - which will hit the market by this year.

Mobile games, in particular, are the fastest growing segment of the gaming market as smartphone and tablet owners are using their devices for game - playing on the Internet, increasingly more than desktops and consoles.

Gaming tablets have been highlighted as one of the hottest electronics categories right now by market researchers, and this seems to be true not just based on the popularity of the Nintendo Switch, but also seems evident based on what tablets, handhelds, and consoles are among the bestselling in this category internationally this week.

The Novo 8 Discovery features a Quad Core processor, a MicroSD slot, WiFi, and is also one of the first Android tablets to offer Miracast HD Wireless capability, similar to Apple's AirPlay system to provide wireless connection to any HDTV with high resolution 1080p HD — ideal for streaming movies (including NetFlix), and to play 3G games on a Big Screen TV using the tablet as a motion control device, as well as to display any other tablet and web content in HD... essentially turning an HDTV into a multimedia computer console — T abletSprint also offers the new CloudNetGo Miracast adapter ($ 45) which became available last week, which is less than half the price of most other Miracast HD Wireless systems on the market, which are priced around $ 100.

Within a few years, however, these consoles were all tucked away in the garage and viewed as quaint and old - fashioned, as there were many other better products on the market.

These are relatively high - ticket items for most people too, so the gaming consoles could pose as a major threat to other markets, including not only tablets but also laptops and other related electronics.

I think with the marketing as the most powerful console etc., the X will do okay.

Well this is a surprise... MS statement - «As the best - selling console in the U.S. in April, fans set record April sales and engagement for Xbox One last month,» Xbox marketing boss Mike Nichols said.

I think this is simply being caused by Nintendo choosing to market it as a home console.

The problem, besides getting watered down ports, is that the mass market sees Nintendo consoles as «kiddy» and not able to handle / do what they want and they're not really wrong.

Japan is shrinking as a market for console gaming.

Nintendo is marketing the system as a game console not only as a mobile.

The immature fanboys who want the console market monopolised by a single format would have a shock if it happened as no competition would mean that their consoles manufacturer would become arrogant bastards.

As PC Gaming year after year grows more and more, today alone it surpasses with pleasure the market of Consoles represented by 3 different manufacturers!

The problems would surely stem from console manufacturers who can make profitable growth once their machine is established (see Nintendo) and a universal medium for any competitive industry isn't exactly hard, it's almost impossible as clearly seen in the cell phone market with various software formats and even battery adapters varying from model to model.

Consoles have to hit a mass - market price point, and most console users don't care about graphics as much as purists do.

However with half step consoles like the ones we are seeing now it may be a requirement, it probably wasn't the best idea to go native but with marketing restrictions the choice is limited people brought a 4k machine so give them 4k the down side is performance especially when people want to see a visual improvement over the base game as well like draw distances foliage etc..

«Your saying power doesn't matter, so your telling me that if microsoft start hurling out the exclusives to the rate what sony have this gen,» But that will never happen, they may indeed up their console exclusive output, but they will never go back to full exclusives as they want the PC market as well.

@Kribwalker2h ago [@joerc So by your logic, which is rediculous by the way, this gen MS has Xbox and windows 10 devices as they are providing games on both platforms much like Sony was in the PS3, ps2 and vita, so MS market share is way beyond Sony this gen with more then 350million windows 10 devices already out there by July] So PC now count as game consoles now?