Sentences with phrase «of the game console gamers»

Rather than a straight port of the excellent PC version of the game console gamers are being treated to their own version of the game, although some of the memorable battles made the transition.

Not exact matches

Almost half of developers are still devoting their energies toward consoles, but the input differences are huge — high - end games are requiring an average of $ 8.7 million, 65 people and 583 days to produce, compared to just $ 300,000, seven people and 156 days for mobile games.

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

The console simply can't power the same game that runs on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, and that's going to keep the next «Call of Duty» from the Switch.

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.

By claiming the electronics they ordered had shown up damaged, the couple scored GoPro cameras, Xbox game consoles, Samsung smartwatches, and Microsoft Surface tablets by creating hundreds of fake online identities to conceal their crimes.

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 Nintendo Wii is the best selling video game console of all time.

That has led to a flourishing market for games with quirkier sensibilities — not just the expensive, gory and violent shooters that have become the bread and butter of home consoles.

Nintendo Switch owners have reported that they have scratched the screens of their video game consoles when putting it into the accompanying Dock to play on their televisions.

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 like me and grew up playing Nintendo game consoles like the Nintendo Entertainment System, Super NES, Nintendo 64, and GameCube, you likely have fond memories of characters like Chun - Li and Ken from the «Street Fighter» franchise.

The new console's version of the Virtual Console service, which offers access to Nintendo's incredible vault of games from past consoles, could be a game - changer.

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.

Nintendo's consoles were left comparatively barren of games.

When Julie Uhrman was vice president of digital distribution at IGN Entertainment, the video game news site, she came to the realization that something was seriously wrong with the console industry.

U.S. Supreme Court justices expressed support on Tuesday for Microsoft's bid to fend off class action claims by Xbox 360 owners who say the video game console gouges discs because of a design defect.

Nintendo Switch and the console's flagship game, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, are really, really popular.

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

The company attributed that to people buying a limited edition version of the game to collect and another to play on the console.

We even bounced around the idea of video game consoles inside each store.

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

Fans have been asking for Nintendo to make just such a Pokémon game for one of its home consoles basically since Pokémon launched.

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.

For Sony and Xbox - maker Microsoft, Hudak said, mobility might be a factor taken into consideration for their consoles «if 5G makes streaming their games viable» and allows them to reduce the physical size of devices.

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.

There's no price point but, he says, «we think this console will generate a significant amount of buzz among gamers.»

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.

Odds are good the Gear will go down as one of the fastest forgotten products of 2013, right up there with the Microsoft Surface tablets and Ouya game console.

• 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 Android - powered game console may actually the worse idea of the two, thanks mainly to the recently released Ouya.

Check out my top 10 list over on MSN for a list of the very best console games of the year, if you need ideas.

I read the funniest thing the other day courtesy of The Wall Street Journal: «Google Inc. is developing a video game console and wrist watch powered by its Android operating system, according to people familiar with the matter, as the internet company seeks to spread the software beyond smartphones and tablets.»

Speaking of devices, there are some big ones missing like Apple TV, Roku and Chromecast, plus the newer game consoles.

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).

The console was a miniature version of the original Nintendo Entertainment System and bundled 22 of the original game console's titles.

It was funny because I'm not sure which of those — the game console or the wrist watch — is the worse idea.

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.

Travis Boatman, EA's senior vice-president for worldwide studios, was primarily at the event to drum up publicity for the company's new lineup of traditional console games.

It will be rolling out a version of the game on all video - game consoles this year, and it is also looking at developing a television cartoon based on the game's characters.

Now, smartphones and tablets are quickly approaching the resolution and computing power of today's consoles, and that's opened up a whole new market for games.

«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.

By next year, the hordes of Candy Crush and Clash of Clans players will even be outspending gamers on Xbox, PlayStation, and other consoles, according to a new report.

Years ago, to get a game into your living room, a developer would have to jump through any number of industry hoops, whether finding distribution through a major publisher or navigating the approval labyrinth of the various console gatekeepers.

To get a sense of how this is changing the industry's dynamics, consider that a recent Deutsche Bank study estimates that just 5 % of traditional console games released since 2001 have sold more than a million copies (they typically retail for about $ 60 each).

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.