Target giveth and Microsoft taketh away: the lucky gamers who received an early Xbox One after a retailer goof have found their Xbox Live accounts blocked on the console, as Microsoft clamps down on premature access. Target inadvertently shipped a number of Xbox One preorders ahead of schedule last week, but while gamers original found […]
MIT Media Lab’s Tangible Media Group has invented a tangible interface that acts like a remote pinscreen. That is, it transfers gestures captured by a hacked Kinect to a platform of motorized pins, thus translating motion to physical reality. The device is called inFORM, and the researchers involved in the project want it to inform […]
Last week, a report surfaced suggesting that Stephen Elop, the man who many believe will take over for Steve Ballmer as Microsoft’s next chief executive, would consider selling off the software giant’s Xbox division to focus its efforts on Office and other key platforms that tend to make it more money. The announcement was a […]
Microsoft has been publishing quite a few commercials for its next-generation console, the Xbox One. We’ve seen a commercial where the Xbox One invites you to play with it, while its Revealed trailer has us taking a closer look at the console’s hardware. Today, a new commercial, called Retirement Home, has been released that features former NFL stars Ray Lewis and Brian Urlacher as they attempt to enjoy their retirement. (more…)
New Xbox One Commercial Stars Former NFL Players Ray Lewis, Brian Urlacher original content from Ubergizmo. 
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This week, gamers are understandably excited over the upcoming release of the PlayStation 4, which is just three short days away from being released on November 15. The upcoming launch of the PlayStation 4 may be taking a bit of the spotlight away from the Xbox One’s release next week, but Microsoft has been battling Sony’s hype train along the way. Earlier this week, Microsoft had announced their Xbox One launch games have gone gold and have started shipping to retailers. (more…)
Microsoft Reveals Xbox One Launch Titles Have Gone Gold original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Today Microsoft gets serious about SkyDrive for cross-platform access to media of all types. Not that they didn’t plan on the service being taken seriously before, but here in integrating SkyDrive with the Xbox One, Microsoft makes a big play for the gamers and living room media players of the world. Here gamers galore will […]
We heard just a few months ago from Microsoft’s senior director of product management at Xbox , Albert Panello, concerning the possibility if the Xbox One offering backwards compatibility “eventually.” It looks like Panello may have changed his tune slightly since he last spoke about the matter back in September as he recently chatted with Polygon, admitting using cloud streaming on the Xbox One for backwards compatibility of Xbox 360 titles have been too “problematic” to be made available to consumers. (more…)
Xbox 360 Games Streaming Via Cloud On Xbox One Deemed ‘Problematic’ original content from Ubergizmo. 
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The skeletal recognition tech behind Kinect is useful for way more than just gaming. It’s good for sign language, cheating at pool, and (duh) porn
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Earlier this morning, Sony published quite the unboxing video for its PlayStation 4 which we certainly would like to see done by other consumer electronics companies in the future. Not to be outdone, Microsoft has also published a new video for its Xbox One, although the purpose of the video, called Xbox One: Revealed, is more to show a closer look at the next-generation console’s hardware. (more…)
Microsoft Takes A Closer Look At The Xbox One In New Trailer original content from Ubergizmo. 
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This article was written on January 08, 2007 by CyberNet.
Sony originally forecasted that 400,000 PlayStation 3 consoles would be sold on launch day. Launch day came and went, and not even half of the projected amount were sold. It took two additional weeks after the launch for Sony to meet its original goal of 400,000. Between the launch, and the end of 2006, they were able to sell 1 million consoles, about half of their 2 million goal. So, what does this mean for Sony?
Dave Karraker, spokesman for Sony was asked whether they were worried about this, and his response? “Are we worried about strong sales of the Wii or Xbox 360? Not really,” he said. “It was a great year for the industry overall. With the tide all ships rise.” They led the previous generation of game consoles with their PlayStation 1 and 2 with 70% of the global market. Perhaps they think that there is plenty of time for them to catch up to the Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii (which was projected to sell 4 million by the end of 2006).
Despite there being a limited supply of consoles, stores have them in-stock! Sony says the limited supply is due to manufacturing problems with the blue laser diodes, a vital part of the Blu-ray disk drive, one reason the price of the PS3 is a bit overwhelming. In fact, even with the limited supply, one GameStop store(pictured above) has placed a sign in the window saying “We have PS3 systems in stock… Plenty of them!” Whether that picture is legit or not is another question, but it does raise a good point. By no means are the PS3′s flying off the shelves like the Wii did.
Obviously comparing the Wii with the PlayStation 3 isn’t exactly comparing apples to apples. They’re very different with the PlayStation 3 loaded with next generation features, and a 20 or 60 GB hard drive. But, the point is that the Wii is clearly far more in demand than the PlayStation 3 is and it could be for a variety of reasons. I don’t know that I’d want to be Sony right now, but the tide can always turn. They plan to sell 6 million consoles by the end of March, a pretty hefty goal to fulfill with hundreds of PS3′s sitting on store shelves collecting dust at the moment.
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