http://kool-gadgets.com Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:02:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.6 en hourly 1 http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/09/06/ipod-touch-accounts-for-38-percent-of-iphone-compatible-devices/ http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/09/06/ipod-touch-accounts-for-38-percent-of-iphone-compatible-devices/#comments Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:01:39 +0000 Admin http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/09/06/ipod-touch-accounts-for-38-percent-of-iphone-compatible-devices/ Using a bit of clever math, asymco has determined that about 38 percent of all 120 million reported iOS device sales are iPod Touches. The author got the value by subtracting the 59.6 million iPhones and 3.2 million iPads sold in June (figures presented in the company’s SEC filings) and the estimated July and August iPad and iPhone sales — a combined 12 million devices — from the 120 million total iOS devices that have been sold to date. The 120 million figure was announced in Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ seemingly annual presentation of new Apple gear on Wednesday. Jobs said the iPod Read More...]]> http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/09/06/ipod-touch-accounts-for-38-percent-of-iphone-compatible-devices/feed/ 0 http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/09/06/how-apple-could-undermine-console-gaming-with-tv-app-games/ http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/09/06/how-apple-could-undermine-console-gaming-with-tv-app-games/#comments Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:00:30 +0000 Admin http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/09/06/how-apple-could-undermine-console-gaming-with-tv-app-games/ Apple’s Steve Jobs is an expert at disrupting other companies’ businesses. Just look at what the iPhone did to Nokia and Motorola, two leaders of the cell phone business who are now trying to chase Apple. What would happen if Jobs turned his eye to console gaming? More disruption, most likely. Apple has already disrupted portable gaming on the Nintendo DS and the Sony PlayStation Portable. The iPhone and iPod Touch have hurt those businesses in the past few years because they offer thousands of free games and many 99 cent titles that have grabbed the attention of gamers and non-gamers Read More...]]> http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/09/06/how-apple-could-undermine-console-gaming-with-tv-app-games/feed/ 0 http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/08/17/sony-offers-new-playstation-3-bundle-as-it-readies-move-launch/ http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/08/17/sony-offers-new-playstation-3-bundle-as-it-readies-move-launch/#comments Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:01:49 +0000 Admin http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/08/17/sony-offers-new-playstation-3-bundle-as-it-readies-move-launch/ Sony is offering new models of the PlayStation 3 as it gets ready to launch its Move motion-sensing system on Sept. 19. The Japanese company announced at the Gamescom conference in Cologne, Germany, that it will offer a larger 320-gigabyte hard disk drive in a PS 3 Sports Champions Move bundle and a 160-gigabyte hard disk in a core PS 3 model. That’s approximately 33 percent more storage capacity than current models. The 160-gigabyte model will sell for $299.99 and is shipping now. On Sept. 19, Sony will launch the 320-gigabyte model bundled with one PlayStation Move motion controller in the PS Read More...]]> http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/08/17/sony-offers-new-playstation-3-bundle-as-it-readies-move-launch/feed/ 1 http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/07/06/sony-playstation-3-slim-coming-soon-to-japan-in-white-and-with-increased-storage/ http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/07/06/sony-playstation-3-slim-coming-soon-to-japan-in-white-and-with-increased-storage/#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:02:52 +0000 Admin http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/07/06/sony-playstation-3-slim-coming-soon-to-japan-in-white-and-with-increased-storage/ Sony is adding a bit of flair to its PS3 Slim by offering the gaming console in white and upping the console’s on-board storage. Launching in Japan on July 29th, the PS3 Slim will be available in both 160Gb and 320GB capacities — up from the previous 120GB and 250GB sizes. The console will also be offered in the traditional black and the new Classic White with matching white controller. Pricing is set in the Japanese Yen with the 160GB retailing for ¥29,980 (USD$340) and the 320GB version for ¥34,980 (USD$400). Thus far, the launch is limited to Japan; but, Read More...]]> http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/07/06/sony-playstation-3-slim-coming-soon-to-japan-in-white-and-with-increased-storage/feed/ 0 http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/06/10/sony-says-majority-of-its-playstation-games-to-be-3d/ http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/06/10/sony-says-majority-of-its-playstation-games-to-be-3d/#comments Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:01:59 +0000 Admin http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/06/10/sony-says-majority-of-its-playstation-games-to-be-3d/ According to Ray Maguire, head of Sony’s UK PlayStation division, the future will see the majority of first-person games for the PlayStation available in 3D; Macguire made the comment during a recent interview with ComputerandVideoGames.com. As for when all of PlayStation’s top-billed titles will be in 3D — something which Sony expects all major gaming studios to do with their most popular franchises — Maguire believes this will happen around 2014, by which time Sony expects as many as 40% of households will have a 3D TV. Today marked the first day of sales for Sony’s first 3D PS3 titles Read More...]]> http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/06/10/sony-says-majority-of-its-playstation-games-to-be-3d/feed/ 1 http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/04/17/report-u-s-video-game-sales-rise-in-march-god-of-war-iii-leads-sales-charts/ http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/04/17/report-u-s-video-game-sales-rise-in-march-god-of-war-iii-leads-sales-charts/#comments Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:03:25 +0000 Admin http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/04/17/report-u-s-video-game-sales-rise-in-march-god-of-war-iii-leads-sales-charts/ Things were looking up for the video game industry in March. Software sales grew 10 percent to $875.3 million from the same time a year ago, and industry revenues as a whole grew 6 percent to $1.52 billion, according to the market researcher NPD Group. Even accessory sales saw gains, up 11 percent to $206.8 million. After a a year of slowing sales due to the recession, the news is a sign that things are finally shaping up, especially compared to last month’s numbers. March saw the industry’s first year-on-year increase in a non-holiday month since February 2009, and it was Read More...]]> http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/04/17/report-u-s-video-game-sales-rise-in-march-god-of-war-iii-leads-sales-charts/feed/ 0 http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/04/01/sony%e2%80%99s-playstation-marketing-machine-now-selling-the-digital-living-room/ http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/04/01/sony%e2%80%99s-playstation-marketing-machine-now-selling-the-digital-living-room/#comments Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:02:45 +0000 Admin http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/04/01/sony%e2%80%99s-playstation-marketing-machine-now-selling-the-digital-living-room/ The living room is getting awfully crowded now that the Internet has come into it. But Sony is trying to take advantage of all that confusion by pushing the PlayStation 3 as the machine that can do everything. While Nintendo’s marketing is laser focused on games, Sony’s marketing describes the PS3 as “it only does everything.” That is now helping the PS3 gain new momentum in the market, according to Peter Dille, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Sony’s U.S. game division, speaking at the MI6 game marketing conference today. Sony is enjoying better success in the console war. But it’s Read More...]]> http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/04/01/sony%e2%80%99s-playstation-marketing-machine-now-selling-the-digital-living-room/feed/ 0 http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/13/bioshock-2-propels-xbox-360-sales-to-1-in-february/ http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/13/bioshock-2-propels-xbox-360-sales-to-1-in-february/#comments Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:03:06 +0000 Admin http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/13/bioshock-2-propels-xbox-360-sales-to-1-in-february/ This February, Microsoft Xbox 360 sales bested those of the Sony Playstation 3 and Nintendo Wii for the first time since September of 2007. The February sales figures were: Xbox 360 422,000 units — up 8% year-over-year, Wii 397,900 units — down 47% year-over-year, and Playstation 3 360,100 units — up 30% year-over-year. Take-Two Interative’s BioShock 2, which hit store shelves on February 10th, can be partially credited for the surge in Xbox sales. BS 2 sold over 750,000 copies, 75% of which (562,000) were for the Xbox 360. Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. Wii, sold 555,600 units raking second on Read More...]]> http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/13/bioshock-2-propels-xbox-360-sales-to-1-in-february/feed/ 0 http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/11/want-more-on-the-playstation-move-head-over-to-joystiq/ http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/11/want-more-on-the-playstation-move-head-over-to-joystiq/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:59:16 +0000 Admin http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/11/want-more-on-the-playstation-move-head-over-to-joystiq/ Sony’s calling the PlayStation Move the “next generation” of motion gaming and planning to market it as heavily as an entirely new console, so it’s sort of a big deal — and that means our main dudes at Joystiq are all over it. We’ve already covered the main details, but hit the links below if you’re looking for some seriously deep dives. SOCOM 4 to support PlayStation Move EyePet to support PlayStation Move, hits North America holiday 2010 Move supported by 36 companies, 20 games this fiscal year The PlayStation Move games (we know of) Hands-on: SOCOM 4 (with PlayStation Move!) Hands-on: PlayStation Read More...]]> http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/11/want-more-on-the-playstation-move-head-over-to-joystiq/feed/ 0 http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/08/the-making-and-unmaking-of-infinity-ward/ http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/08/the-making-and-unmaking-of-infinity-ward/#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:03:29 +0000 Admin http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/08/the-making-and-unmaking-of-infinity-ward/ The implosion of Infinity Ward, one of the best videogame studios ever founded, is the latest chapter in a long saga intertwined with the history of intense combat video games. A lawsuit filed by the studio’s co-founders last week against parent company Activision Blizzard was a sad milestone at a studio that has come to be cherished by millions of hardcore game fans. In the beginning, there was Saving Private Ryan. Steven Spielberg’s horrific World War II movie opened in 1998 and shocked audiences with its realistic, horrifying portrayal of the D-Day landings at Omaha Beach and the subsequent fighting in the Read More...]]> http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/08/the-making-and-unmaking-of-infinity-ward/feed/ 0