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Console News For Monday, November 8
Microsoft Bundles Alan Wake – Forza 3 In Holiday Bundle
For those of you who don’t want to be Kinect’d, Microsoft is releasing this year’s holiday bundle with core gamering goodness. The new bundle will come with a copy of Forza Motorsport 3 and a token to download Remedy’s hit thriller, Alan Wake. This bundle will launch at the $299 price point leaving gamers to decide, get Kinect? Or go with a couple of core games?
Source: Major Nelson
Mass Effect 2 For PS3 To Receive Free Extra Content, Missions
PS3 users will finally be receiving Mass Effect 2 on the Sony console with some extra goodies. It will be including all of the DLC missions that Xbox 360 users had to purchase this last year, as well as a new mission worth about six hours of gameplay and an interactive comic to walk them through the events of the first game, making key decisions that affect the outcome of Mass Effect 2.
It will be interesting to find out if Xbox 360 fans will have access to this extra six hour mission as later downloadable content. It would probably be a good idea for EA to release it to appease the 2.12 million fans of the Xbox 360 version may feel a bit left out and disgruntled if it isn’t the case.
Source: GameRant
Kinect Technology Could Have Gone To Apple First
Apple Inc., a company whose dedication to innovating arguably stands above any other company could have had Project Natal, now known to the world as Microsoft’s holiday hopeful, Kinect, first. But why would Apple, king of new technologies miss out on this huge opportunity to bring something unique to their own line of products?
Because, “Apple is a pain in the ass,” according to PrimeSense CEO Inon Beracha.
In an interview with Cult of Mac Editor, Leander Kahney, Beracha said that when Apple was introduced to the technology, it was the stack of legal agreements and NDAs that turned Beracha off to the partnership.
Interesting.
Source: Cult Of Mac
Microsoft Giving Away Free Xbox 360s With Purchase Of Win7 Phones In Toronto
As you know, Windows Phone 7 launches today. And what better way to celebrate this event than getting a free Xbox 360 with your purchase of an HTC 7 Surround or LG Optimus 7? People shopping at the Toronto Eaton Centre can get just such a deal. But you better be quick, word is that numbers are limited.
Source: Wirelessly Obsessed
Coming This Week
I’ll be taking Microsoft Kinect For Xbox 360 for a test drive and writing down my thoughts, as well as with the new 360 Dashboard. Also, my holiday sales predictions after last week’s numbers are posted. Stay tuned.
~W75
Console News For Monday, October 18th
Weekly Sales Update: Microsoft Pulls Ahead of Sony for Year On Sales
Microsoft this week finally pulled ahead of Sony in sales for the year by 1,000 units for the year last week. This comes after Sony managed to have a commanding 1 million unit lead before the 360S was released last June. While it’s still anyone’s game with the Christmas season looming, things are looking well in Microsoft’s favor.
By the numbers:
Console | Americas | Japan | EMEAA | Worldwide |
---|---|---|---|---|
118,030 | 51,427 | 92,225 | 261,682 | |
92,079 | 2,700 | 68,995 | 163,774 | |
70,156 | 18,659 | 69,405 | 158,220 | |
61,067 | 12,266 | 57,356 | 130,689 | |
21,449 | 34,747 | 29,503 | 85,699 |
Source: VGChartz
Total monthly sales for the Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360 stand at 269,067, 308,145, and 343,265 respectively for October. With a few weeks to go, it looks as though console sales are starting to warm up for the Christmas season. Unfortunately for Nintendo, it doesn’t look like the Wii will be doing well this month, being behind number 2 placeholder Sony at 269,000 sales for the month so far. This is a shortfall of almost 40,000 units behind Sony and a little over 60,000 units behind Microsoft. This may turn out to be the first October that Nintendo has failed to sell more than 1 million units since launch.
Konami Dates Kinect for Xbox 360 Titles
Konami recently released a presser announcing the dates of their upcoming Kinect for Xbox 360 titles. Konami, not to be outdone by upstart Harmonix in the dance ring is releasing Dance Evolution on November 10th along with CROSSBOARD 7, a racing game with animals.
On November 25th, Konami will release Sports Island Freedom under their Hudson Soft brand. This title will add a few unique sporting events to the already sports packed game line-up including: Archery, Paint Ball, Beach Volleyball, Dodge Ball, Kendo, Mogul Skiing, Snowboard Cross and Figure Skating.
Source: GamersHell
Microsoft Spending $1 Billion on Kinect, Windows Mobile 7 Marketing
Microsoft is shelling out a lofty billion dollars on their marketing campaign for Kinect and Windows Mobile 7 to make sure it stays in the game of…gaming…and…phoning. Money spent includes Ads on Nickelodeon and Disney (presumably for Kinect. Unless they’re marketing phones really early nowadays), product placement ads on Glee and Dancing with the Stars’, a Times Square Event and ads in various magazines.
What really makes me angry about this is that there are plenty of innovative products that Microsoft comes out with that just get thrown at the wall just to see if they stick. Perhaps if they gave the Zune team a bit more than enough to cover money for lunch, they’d see more ZuneHD sales.
Source: TheNextWeb
Nintendo Wii Getting NetFlix Without A Disc
Following in the footsteps of the Xbox 360 and PS3, Netflix and Nintendo have announced that you will no longer be required to use a disc to stream your multimedia goodness on the Wii without the use of a disc. Which is great, if you like watching your hi-def shows in 480p. Good future proofing Nintendo.
Source: Business Wire
Fallout: New Vegas DLC Announced Before The Game Even Releases
Bethesda Softworks recently announced that Xbox Live will be getting the first New Vegas downloadable content before the PS3 will. Now, call me old fashioned, but shouldn’t we be talking about the game before it launches? And not its DLC?