Between great first party games and unique gameplay evolutions (the Wiimote), they won the last console generation handily.
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There have been many interviews with execs saying that the next console generation was still far, far away.
Whatever happens with the next console generation, the second-hand game market is going to look a lot less lucrative.
But I think the days of unending sales records are over for the series, at least for this latest console generation.
If the first chapter of Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time is any indication, the long wait spanning this entire console generation was well worth it.
But what if this is part of some grand conspiracy in the next console generation, and Sony is in on it as well?
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Here at the end of the console generation, one would hope that developers knew their way around a system a little better than this.
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It stands to reason that the PSN will remain free in the next console generation, but will Xbox Live do the same to compete?
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Those of us in the gaming industry might know to take rumors about the next console generation with a grain of salt, but those outside?
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But overall, the Halo universe has never looked better, and this will probably be as good as it gets on the current console generation .
While hardware sales of all other systems are slowly winding down, as tends to happen near the end of a console generation, Xbox 360 is spooling up.
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Call of Duty may have shined in the graphics department early on in the last console generation, but as time went on, Battlefield came along to outstrip them as the better looking title.
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This console generation launched with a fairly narrow idea of what a game was, and both the PS3 and the Xbox 360 gradually expanded that through electronic stores that sold games of all different sizes.
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Nintendo s Wii has been the undisputed leader of the current console generation, moving more than 95 million units, but its success was based in part on the appeal of Wii s motion-sensitive controllers to first-time videogame players.
Of the three console makers ( Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony), only two will survive this console generation and still they will be forced to make a strategic shift away from gaming to become an entertainment hub in the home.
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You might think with this next upcoming console generation, it might be time to force people to get with the times, but the truth is the internet in the vast majority of the world, America included, is not ready to handle the download of the massive files required to play these games.
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That's been enough to keep the console neck and neck with Microsoft (which is rumored to be developing its own next-generation console, the Xbox 720) but trailing Nintendo's Wii, which has parlayed its wide appeal with family and casual gamers into the top spot since hitting the market in 2006.
Microsoft may be preparing a lite version of its next-generation console specifically made for set-top box purposes.
Nintendo plans to launch its own next-generation console, code-named Dolphin, later this year.
The games industry has repeatedly warned that next generation console games would be much more expensive to develop because of the level of skill needed.
It also faces the imminent launch of Nintendo's next-generation console.
Among the latest generation console sales, Sony lags behind.
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Peter Moore, corporate vice president of the Interactive Entertainment Business in the Entertainment and Devices Division of Microsoft, described Xbox Live recently as the "key weapon" in the next generation console battle.
Sony should push harder than ever with its Plus service this year in the lead up to their release of the next-generation console, and push doubly hard on Plus releases on Vita to help the struggling handheld swim instead of sink.
Sony has announced its next-generation gaming console - the PlayStation 4 - at an event in New York.
We got a glimpse of the next generation of console gaming tonight, and it looks exciting.
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