Sony, Microsoft see games key to console race
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SANTA MONICA, California  - After years of arguing  over whose video game machine has the best bells and whistles,  Sony Corp.  and Microsoft Corp.  agree the  battle boils down to which one has the best games.
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And the winner of the next-generation console war is... Nintendo's Wii - at least according to market watcher IDC. In the short term, at least. It reckons Wii will "outship and outsell" the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation throughout this year and next.â¦
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Microsoft hopes the launch Tuesday of its much-anticipated &quot;Halo 3&quot; game will turn into another blockbuster that will fend off challenges from Nintendo&#39;s Wii and Sony&#39;s Playstation 3.
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January was a good month  for Sony's video game business. For the first time, its  PlayStation 3 outsold its own PS2 as well as Microsoft's Xbox  360.
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Microsoft looks to new games, online gaming service to boost sales.
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Tantalizing new games for Nintendo Wii, Sony PS3, and Microsoft Xbox 360 are on the horizon.
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It&#39;s no secret that rivalry in consumer electronics is heating up, and today the Associated Press reported that Japan&#39;s Sony (NYSE: SNE) is &quot;more aggressively&quot; pursuing
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Nintendo, Sony ready rival portable gaming devices. Which one will gamers go for?
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Investors will be looking for signs  from Microsoft Corp.  of a strong holiday quarter for  Xbox 360 video game consoles and new computers loaded with  Windows Vista when the company reports results this week.
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Microsoft Corp.   said on Tuesday it will hold firm on pricing for its  Xbox 360 game console, defying widespread expectations that it  would respond to a price cut by rival Sony Corp. (6758.T) for  the PlayStation 3.
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While Halo 2 is already a huge hit for Xbox out of the box, parent company Microsoft hopes the ripple effect of Halo 2 lasts well into its next generation of gaming hardware.
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In the three-way struggle among Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo for year-end shoppers of next-generation video-game consoles, price is turning out to be a key weapon.
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An image from Microsoft's E3 event rehearsal hints of a new model in the gaming console line.
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Sony and Microsoft confront consumer apathy as they attempt to turn game consoles into multipurpose entertainment gadgets.
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Merrill Lynch said game consoles will likely eventually edge out PCs as the dominant home computing system. &quot;The future of microprocessors, storage devices, and development environments could be driven by
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Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O plans to release   a cheaper version of its Xbox 360 video game console in Japan   this autumn to boost sluggish sales in Japan and better compete   with rivals Sony Corp. 6758.T and Nintendo Co. Ltd.   7974.OS, a newspaper said on Friday.
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PC Magazine - Sure, Microsoft can happily pound its chest and announce far and wide that they've outsold PlayStation 3 yet again (as they did this morning), but the most important factoid that came out of January's sales numbers is that Nintendo pounced them both.