A motion-sensing video game controller announced by Sony

A motion-sensing video game controller announced by Sony. PlayStation consoles had complicated buttons and joysticks but now user will get a motion controller video game by Sony.

Richard Marks who is the Sony Computer Entertainment researcher provided a glimpse of the prototype controller in a press conference in Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles.

Marks said to the ET, "It's more distinct and cool feature is a glowing sphere on the end that the PlayStation 3 eye can track. We want to enable gamers. We expect very casual players.”

Now, Nintendo Wii offers controllers shaped like television remotes. It is just like car steering wheels, guns and bathroom scales.

About it Economics Times online magazine writes, “Xbox 360 consoles equipped with Natal will be able to respond to spoken commands for actions such as playing movies or connecting online with friends for video chats.

An expected completion date for Natal was not disclosed, but Microsoft on Monday released a software kit for video game makers interested in designing titles to take advantage of Natal's capabilities.”

Now, it seems in the gaming consoles industry Sony has taken one more step to attract customers. This feature will surely increase Sony market again. However, Sony is already world’s top gaming consoles seller.

No New Gaming Consoles Arriving Earlier than 2013

In an analysis, PCWord.com announced that till 2013 no new gaming consoles are arriving in market. It is the analysis of Michael Pachter of Wedbush Morgan who says that next round of consoles is not arriving earlier than 2013.

According to Pachter, “fiddlesticks, calling the notion video game software sales always peak in a console cycle's fourth year an "urban legend." The magazine also analysis that till 2010 a new console can launch in market but next generation gaming consoles is not arriving before 2013.

In the reason it has given some solid logic but last one is impressive, “...publishers will resist the introduction of any video game hardware technology that requires a refresh of software, as the publishers have as yet to capitalize on the immense investments made in being competitive in the current cycle. We therefore think it is likely that the “next” generation will begin after 2013, meaning that software sales are likely to grow by a compounded annual rate of 6 – 10% for another five years. Because R&D costs are likely to flatten out with the benefits of a learning curve, we expect earnings leverage as the publishers are able to exploit R&D investments. In brief, we think that investors have it wrong so far this cycle, and think that investment in video game publishers will bear fruit for many years. However, pessimism about software sales in April could limit share price.”

It is truth that the age is competitive for all the products and market. In the competitive age if a company launch only stylish hardware without updated software then surely, in the market it would be fail.

In other news there is a rumor of Apple’s game consoles. It is being said that in coming future Apple is going to launch a game console. If it is true then analysis is not true because it ignores Apple.

If Apple launches a new gaming console then it surely will be a new hardware with updated software for new generation. That will be different from earlier and in market it will get huge popularity.

Xbox 360 gaming consoles Prices slashed by Microsoft

It is not new news but I went through bbc.co.uk online magazine where I found some great news about gaming consoles which was prices down. It was September, 2008 when the news was published and according to the news Xbox models will drop by $50 its prices. Basic model will be cheaper than Nintendo Wii.

The price of Xbox 360 will be about half of PlayStation 3. It will be only for US then after for Japan but according to the Microsoft there is no plan to down prices in European country.

According to the Microsoft, “We wanted price of the basic model to dip below the psychologically important barrier of $200. About 75% of all console sales have been made below that price point.”

According to the above mentioned magazine, “The $199 price applies only to the Xbox 360 Arcade which has a 256MB memory unit on board rather than a hard drive. Adding a 20GB hard drive could add up to $90 to the total cost.”

In last August Microsoft had already announced that prices of Xbox 360 would fall in September in Japan. About the European country prices cut Microsoft announced, “Pricing is handled on a region-by-region basis. We do not have a price drop in this region to announce.”

Michael Pachter who is an analyst at Wedbush Morgan said, “They've got to make it up by penetrating more households and selling more software.” According to him it is the decision of Microsoft.

After the announcement it is being said in gaming consoles industry now, Nintendo and Sony will be out from the US gaming consoles market in competition of Xobx 360 consoles.

Touch-Screen Mobile Phone by Samsung with Gaming Features

There is a review of 1st 8 Megapixel camera mobile which is launched by Samsung in India. The mobile has many great features with games and gaming consoles. Whatever, we play a game on our gaming consoles are in the mobile features:

"Recently, Samsung, mobile manufacturing company announced to launch its 1st 8 megapixel touchscreen camera phone in India. The handset name is Pixen M8800. The phone has high image resolution of 3264×2448. It is auto-focus camera phone with face-recognition, Wide Dynamic Range and Advance Shake Reduction.

Its main key-features are GPS, WVGA video recording at 30fps, 3G with HSDPA support, Quad-band GSM support, microSD card slot, FM radio with RDS, TV out functionality, Bluetooth and USB v2.0, Office document viewer and microSD card slot. It has not the functionality of Wi-Fi connectivity, voice-guided GPS navigation and smart dialing.

Samsung Pixen M8800 has 3.2-inch large touch-screen which supports users to tap, sweep, and drag its widget by touching finger. Most famous widgets on the phone are weather info widget and Google Search widget.

QWERTY keyboard and onscreen handwriting to write SMS, email and other inputs comes with the M8800 touch screen mobile phone.

On the launch of Pixen M8800, Samsung Telecom Division country head, Sunil Dutt said, “Pixon is made for users who want to experience full multimedia entertainment on their mobile phone with the ease of a touch.”

Samsung Pixen M8800 has video player formats also including with DivX, Xvid and MP4. Brain Challenge, Diamond Twister and Millionaire-3 most popular games are pre-loaded with the famous phone. You can download most of the game also by online also on the phone. The phone has great browsing speed of 7.2 download speed and UMTS capability.

In India the phone price is Rs.28,750 which is below than iPhone touch-screen. Samsung has other touchscreen phone Samsung Omnia (i900) and Samsung TouchWiz (F480) which has only 5 megapixel camera.

Samsung Pixen M8800 will attract Indian users by its extra-ordinary key features. Its price is also affordable in competition of iPhone. No users has 8 megapixel cameras still so, the phone will fulfill the gap."

Data Source:India’s 1st 8 Megapixel Touchscreen Phone by Samsung

Halo 2 most playing game on Xbox gaming consoles

In a review of gaming consoles I found that Halo 2 game is most playing game on Xbox gaming consoles. I want to share that on gaming consoles blog. The news is from an online gaming reviews blog. Below is the news:

"Introduction:

Halo 2 is the sequel of one of the most successful X-Box game Halo: Combat Evolved. It was a major hit in USA and other countries after its release on November 9, 2004. As it was the much awaited by game lover who were stunned by its prequel Halo 1, 1.3 million copies already been ordered before its release. Due to this record anticipation by game lovers it became the most popular video game of X-Box after its release.

Development:

Bungie Studio developed Halo 2 for X-Box initially. Later on Microsoft developed PC version of Halo 2, which was released on May 17, 2007. Pi studio also worked on its and developed editing tools, which helps players to create multiplayer maps.

Plot:

Story of Halo 2 starts in continuation with its prequel Halo: Combat Evolved. Storyline depicts future of twenty-sixth century where humans have colonized a large part of galaxies and are engaged in war against an alien race called “Covenant”. Player portray role of “Master Chief”, a cyborg and main character of game. In addition to this there is one more playable character, “The Arbiter”. Some changes had been made in gameplay of Halo 2 which are pleasing to the players especially who have played Halo 1 before.

Thumbs Up:

Although Halo 2 is equipped with every thing that a normal gamer loves; excellent graphics, superb gameplays and many more but the most impressive thing is game’s story. In many ways it is superior to Halo 1, especially actions in game are outstanding. One thing that is worth noticing is its great multiplayer support with many customization options, which was unavailable in Halo 1. Graphics and game designing are so excellent that sometimes players can just look it at some point of time when they are clueless about where to proceed. Music and soundtrack of Halo 2 is again a winner to its prequel. Soundtrack of Halo 2 makes use of Ambient Sound technology and Dolby 5.1 Digital surround sound. A perfect blend of action and story gives you a great experience when you will fight to survive and to save the earth.

Thumbs Down:

Although there is no major down point of Halo 2, yet there are some cons such as short campaigns, minor graphical faults at some points and co-op mode of game is limited to split screen only. At some point repetitive gameplay as in Halo 1 may bore players. But, inspite of these shortcomings Halo 2 is a fun and a great adventure.

Response:

As Halo 2 was much awaited by game lovers due to huge success of Halo 1, it got great response soon after its release on November 9, 2004. Halo 2 grossed $125 million within 24 hours of its release in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and USA. During first week of its launch in UK, around 260,000 copies were sold thus making it as third fastest selling title in UK. Up to May 2006 it was crowned as best selling X-Box game of all times with more than 8 million copies sold throughout the world. Halo 2 was also appreciated by critics for its great soundtrack and included multiplayer option. Halo 2 grabs many awards such as Game Critics Award for best console game in 2004, Game Developers Choice Award and Interactive Achievement Award for best audio effects and sound design in 2005."

Source Via:HALO: 2 Game Reviews

Gaming Consoles Technologies with Sony Ericsson Mobile Phone T303

With the introduction of touch-screen mobile phones there is a major competition within latest technologies. Mobile phones are coming with latest gaming technologies which fulfill your need of gaming consoles. Now, you can enjoy all the gaming technologies like – PlayStation, Xbox or Nintendo on your mobile phones in coming future. But in the recent age you need to choose latest technologies mobile phones which have latest gaming technologies and fantastic look. In this way I found a great mobile which was from Sony Ericsson. The model is T303. Sony Ericsson T303 has great look along with in the latest gaming technologies in the competition of touch-screen mobile phones. Read the review of Sony Ericsson T303 surely you will go through it. Below is full review by touch-screen review blog:

"Sony Ericsson again has launched a new mobile phone T303. I think it is in the competition of fantastic design phones. However, the phone is not a touchscreen mobile in spite of the mobile design will survive in the competition of touch screen phone.

The Sony Ericsson T303 is a highly attractive slide opening mobile phone which comes with easy-to-use functionalities. The mobile phone comes with a vibrant 1.8 inches TFT coloured screen which has a mirror glass display and displays up to 65K colours for the users to view and provides a resolution of 128 x 160 pixels. This is a light weight handset and weighs just 93 grams with dimensions of 83 x 47 x 14.7 mm. The users can easily saved 500 contacts in its Phonebook. They can also easily view last 30 received, dialled and missed call details at any time.

The Sony Ericsson T303 comes with an 8 MB internal memory, which lets the users to store images and personal data. It is a GPRS class 10 enabled mobile phone which offers the users to access the World Wide Web without hassles. It has USB v2.0 and Bluetooth v2.0 technologies that allow you to share all type of data with other compatible device at high speed without any troubles. The users of this Sony Ericsson phone can also charge the phone to connect with a computer via USB port. The gorgeous device is available in two vibrant colour options of Shimmering Silver and Shadow Black. You can send/receive MMS with the support of MMS technology. The mobile phone can store up to 250 messages in its storage memory.

The Sony Ericsson T303 has a 1.3 mega pixels camera which provides a resolution of 1280 x 1024 pixels while capturing still images. The mobile phone camera gives sharp and good quality pictures every time.

It has FM radio with RDS technology which lets the users to display the song name or movie name, artist name and FM radio station identification details. The media player of the mobile phone can play MP3 files easily. It also has TrackID music recognition application which offers the users to record a sound clip of an unknown music song onto their phone and immediately receive a notification of the songs name, artist and album on the display screen.

A built-in WAP internet browser allows you to access the internet on their mobile phone by getting a rich xHTML internet experience. You can stay in contact with messaging contacts by multimedia or text massages with your friends and relatives. A text message which is known as a SMS message can contain text input and be shared with all SMS compatible devices. A multimedia messages which is known as a MMS messages can contain a picture with text and sound shared with other MMS compatible phones easily.

The phone comes with a unique calculator option which would allow the users in all type of calculations and that too at a very steady pace. It also has some other great useful features such as voice memo, built-in handsfree, calender, stopwatch and many more. These helpful functionalities make it a different mobile phone in its category. One time fully charged standard battery Li-Po 930 mAh (BST-3 gives approximate 9 hours of talktime and 400 hours of standby time, respectively.

After having reviewed the feature of T303 we can say however it is not a touch screen mobile phone but the features will lead the phone in the competition of touch screen phone because its design is fantastic."

Source Via :Is Sony Ericsson T303 Touch screen Phone: Review and Overview on T303

Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS is on a verge to rule the market

The Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS is on a verge to rule the market as these gadgets are incredible for playing games and listening to music. These gadgets can be used to play games on a television too by simply connecting them to a television. They can be controlled wirelessly due the presence of remote controls.

The Nintendo Wii is a marvellous looking device that is installed with a Broadway-processor that is capable of processing data at high speed. Its memory is large enough for storing games of all kind that are either downloaded from the internet or are gained after sharing with other compatible devices. The phone has ports and peripheral capabilities that make playing games on the device more entertaining. It has four Wii remote controllers besides card slots for making playing games on the device memorable. The SD memory card slot allows further expansion of the storage space. Memory cards of up to 2 GB can be easily fitted into this slot. Thus, the storage space is good for storing files that are either video or audio. Thus users can listen to songs and also play videos. The power consumption of the device is 18 watts, when it is switched on. In standby mode, the device consumes 9.6 watts power. This gadget can be easily connected to a television and thus users can enjoy playing games on a large screen. This gadget is now available free with mobiles or other such devices.

The Nintendo DS on a other hand, is also a gaming console with dual screen capability. This device weighs 275 gms and measures 148.7 x 84.7 x 28.9 mm. The handset has a 3D ARM946E-S CPU processes. This allows quick processing of programmes in-order to download games. The device has 4 MB RAM that allows people to store games however large it may be. So, the users find it possible to download and play games that are the best. The voltage required to run this gadget is 1.65 volts. With this voltage, the Nintendo DS can be used to keep on playing games for long duration of time. It can be used wirelessly. It also has Wi-Fi capability that adds a feature to its wireless network connection. The handset looks good and people can buy it as it come quite cheap. In fact, it is available for free with devices such as mobile phones.

Information about these devices is available on the internet. The Nintendo Wii comes absolutely free with certain gadgets and details about them are available on the internet. Users just have to open various websites that cater to providing details about the features and availability of both these devices. Online order for Wii as well as Nintendo DS can be placed on these websites. It is guaranteed that these devices would be delivered at the address mentioned by the buyer immediately after an order is placed.