Are home game consoles in danger?
I remember back in the late 1990s at Codemasters when as a publisher we had just two platforms we could develop for. The PC and the Playstation. By then Sega […]
Crystal ball
Some free consultancy for Electronic Arts
To the office of John Riccitiello. You have had some success on iPhone with a relatively small number of high priced titles and have recently set up 8Ib Gorilla for […]
Serendipity
Three of the hottest subjects in video gaming just now are OLED displays, which will transform portable devices, 3D gaming, which will bring us a step change in the immersive […]
Wii and PS3 price drop, will Microsoft follow?
This is getting very interesting. Sales of the Wii have slowed down a lot and so Nintendo, who have resisted price drops because of the previous huge demand, will now […]
How fast will plastic and cardboard game distribution die out?
I had a go on here at Michael Pachter, analyst at Wedbush Morgan, when he said that downloads would become 20% of the market within 5 years and peak at […]
3D gaming, the revolution is here
I have written before about 3D gaming. The effect is more impressive than it sounds when you see it done properly for real. Having depth is like going to the […]
Here comes the Microsoft Xbox 3 / Xbox 720
Game consoles are just specialist computers and so, like all computers, they obey Moore’s Law. This is something that it is very important to keep in mind when looking at […]