Sentences with phrase «of games consoles in»

I happen to have lots of game consoles in my house, and for our holiday party we did Just Dance [a «rhythm game» developed and published by Ubisoft].

I run a couple of pretty long High Speed HDMI cables from my TV to a couple of game consoles in a nearby closet.

Not exact matches

In the old way of doing things, numerous contracts might be involved to manufacture one video game console.

Although the console was essentially a sleeker version of the original NES gaming console, released in 1983, it was built to accommodate modern televisions and came bundled with 30 video games from the 1980s.

Nintendo (ntdoy) on Friday priced its first console in about four years above market expectations, disappointing investors and clouding its prospects of winning back gamers who have shifted from consoles to smartphones.

Nintendo will stop making its NES Classic Edition console, a retro gaming device introduced in November that reprised older games like Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda.

If you wanted to play the latest «Call of Duty» game in the last decade, there were few chances to do that on Nintendo's consoles.

The Zelda franchise has been massively successful in the U.S. — so successful that its most recent iteration, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, has been outselling Nintendo's popular new game console.

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.

That's a lot of money, no doubt, but it's a surprisingly reasonable price for a new video - game console in 2017.

The Switch is the fastest - selling game console of all time, thanks in no small part to its flexibility.

The iconic game company sold 906,000 Switch consoles in the U.S. in March, making it the fastest - selling Nintendo game system in history and one of the fastest - selling game consoles of all time.

In the case of video games, rumours have been circulating for a while now about both Sony and Microsoft implementing technology into their next - generation consoles — expected this year — that would make it impossible to play used products.

The new team furiously started spitting out added features and new versions of Skype every four to six weeks, and dove into significant new businesses, including smartphone apps, deals to embed Skype in consumer products like TVs and game consoles, and partnerships with Facebook and Verizon Wireless (VZ).

The original Wii put Nintendo back in the game with innovative motion technology and gameplay that attracted legions of casual gamers, this new console is the company's push to get the attention (and disposable income) of hardcore gamers.

• Manticore Games, a San Mateo, California - based developer of multiplayer PC and console games, raised $ 15 million in Series A funding.

If we make the assumption that the youngest players of those consoles were six or seven at the time, the oldest people in the world today who have always played video games are in their mid-forties.

The first game console, the Magnavox Odyssey, came out in 1972, but it wasn't much of a success (the story is thoroughly detailed in Sex, Bombs and Burgers).

Evolution's developers, Jeff Sember and Don Mattrick (who now heads up Microsoft's interactive entertainment business), went on to form Distinctive Software and became one of the largest publishers of video games not owned by a console maker in the 1980s.

«As the uptake of VR hardware plays out, game software revenues will automatically be absorbed into current PC, TV / console and mobile revenues,» the intelligence firm projected in the report.

Fast - forward a few decades, and the likes of Microsoft's Xbox 360, the Sony PS3 and Nintendo's Wii have put consoles in one of every two homes in the U.S. and helped make video games a bigger business than the entire music industry — and almost as big as the movie industry.

In the past, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has said the Xbox One video game console will fill a similar role, starting with the arrival of Cortana in a forthcoming updatIn the past, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has said the Xbox One video game console will fill a similar role, starting with the arrival of Cortana in a forthcoming updatin a forthcoming update.

Activision, in a release Friday, noted that the game has already become the top - selling console game of 2014.

But when approached by a New York Times reporter, despite the copious signs of console game success all around him, Boatman seemed to be more interested in a whole different type of game: the simple, cheap apps that millions of people around the world were starting to download to their smartphones and iPads.

Sullivan makes his way to a console on the left side of the OR, where he takes a seat in front of a viewfinder that looks like it belongs in a futuristic video game arcade.

She said the app could also send her notifications through her video game console Microsoft Xbox and the on - board computer of her car, so her work essentially followed her in every aspect of her life.

They'll still be talking about how gorgeous it is, how smart and funny its main character is, how it succeeded commercially in the shadow of a new Nintendo console and a new «Legend of Zelda» game.

Now that the NES Classic Edition console is out in the wild, folks are going gaga for the minuscule machine's perfect emulations of classic Nintendo games.

I was in that frame of mind a few months back when I wrote about how video game consoles were just one example of technological regression.

The phenomenal numbers put Super Mario Odyssey on the path to becoming the best selling game for the Switch, Nintendo's latest gaming console; fans are buying it even faster than they bought The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, a launch title that was heralded as one of the best games in the Zelda franchise's history.

Hopes have been high in the game industry that the arrival of the three consoles will revitalize the sector, which has lagged from competition from smartphones and other mobile devices, wooing users with their own games, as well as social networking and other pastimes.

Here in the land of disc - gaming, players are going to be stuck with broken game consoles that need to be updated with new patches, fixes and firmware every day while, as usual, the future will arrive first in Japan.

Don't consider this a full review, because it isn't intended as such, but the first game for Nintendo's new console is one of Nintendo's best games in years.

Japan's Nintendo said it will release a short video later on Thursday of the next - generation game console it plans to launch globally in March — an announcement that sent its shares up more than 4 %.

Normally, both consoles would be looking at their golden years right around now — finally low enough in price for anyone to buy, large libraries of great games from years of availability, and even better stuff coming in the near future.

Meanwhile Apple's success will likely come in the form of casual games, or titles that don't have the graphical prowess of console - based alternatives and are easier to pick up and play, she says.

The same can be said of the Xbox One — the two video game consoles were announced and launched in 2013 with similar specs and target audiences.

The launch of the Switch, the company's latest console, has gone exceptionally well, with retailers unable to keep the system in stock, even though we're still months away from the peak buying season for video game hardware and software.

He has pushed the boundaries of gaming experiences in new ways in party and role - playing games on portable consoles.

Video games ironically emerged in the 1960s as a consumer - friendly demonstration of what computers could do, with consoles in the 1970s finally packing processing power into a couldn't - be-simpler device.

As Jerry Brown, associate partner in PricewaterhouseCooper's consulting practice, recalls, «I saw a presentation given by one of the major studios where they pointed out that when they sold a [game] for a console they expected to collect $ 50 per consumer and that was it.

Says Piers Harding - Rolls, head of games at U.K. - based IHS Screen Digest, in an e-mail, «I expect to see increasing downloads over this generation and on to the next generation of devices as it is in the interest of console manufacturers to act as a retailer.»

But I'd venture to say that in my long time playing and covering video games, the Xbox One X has some of the best gaming experiences out of the gate of any console I've ever played.

In the U.S., retailer GameStop is being proactive, having recently begun offering PC downloads; it's now ramping up its offering of codes for digital access to console game add - ons and purchased Spawn Labs in March 2011, which boasts a technology that is supposed to allow streaming of console gameIn the U.S., retailer GameStop is being proactive, having recently begun offering PC downloads; it's now ramping up its offering of codes for digital access to console game add - ons and purchased Spawn Labs in March 2011, which boasts a technology that is supposed to allow streaming of console gamein March 2011, which boasts a technology that is supposed to allow streaming of console games.

Microsoft also appears to have lost its edge in games, with the PlayStation 4 outselling its more expensive Xbox One and many techno - aficionados pronouncing Sony's console as the more powerful of the two.

As a result, there are only two camps who may be interested in taking advantage of GameStop's Black Friday deal: those who have a tangible interest in video games but never actually got around to buying a console, or those who are uninterested in gaming but who will use the Xbox 360 to run Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and Microsoft's own «movies and TV» service (morphing the device into something of a free alternative to a Roku or other streaming gadget).

Some day in the not - too - distant future, both PVRs and game consoles — with all their attendant wires — will be a thing of the past.

Whether the gamer in your life is getting a console for Christmas or is looking to build up their library, this list of the top - rated games on the Xbox One should help you figure out which to buy.

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.

In 2003, he took a job at Silicon Knights in St. Catharines, Ont., the studio responsible for such console games as Too Human and X-Men Destiny, for a third of the salarIn 2003, he took a job at Silicon Knights in St. Catharines, Ont., the studio responsible for such console games as Too Human and X-Men Destiny, for a third of the salarin St. Catharines, Ont., the studio responsible for such console games as Too Human and X-Men Destiny, for a third of the salary.