Nintendo Strategy Briefing – LIVE
Nintendo has made a rare trip to Tokyo to update investors on its strategy (the session is timed, in what is becoming a Nintendo routine, to clash with Sony’s first half results briefing). From the investors and analysts I recognise here at the Imperial Hotel, it looks like Nintendo remains the greater draw, despite their...
The latest iPhone challenger is something Else
With dozens of smartphones powered by Google’s Android operating system set to hit the market, a different challenger to the Apple iPhone was on display in Tokyo today: the Else, from London-listed Israeli technology company Emblaze, using software made by Access of Japan.
The two companies are making bold claims for the device, long in development...
Sony at the Tokyo Games Show – LIVE
The Tokyo Games Show is about to kick off with a keynote speech by Kazuo Hirai, the president of Sony Computer Entertainment, at 1030 local time.
Word is that Mr Hirai will be speaking about Sony’s upcoming motion controller for the Playstation 3. Refresh this page for regular updates on what Mr Hirai has to say.
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Space Invaders on Natal
For gamers who want to know what they will be able to play on the Xbox 360’s ‘Natal’ motion controller, here are a few more details from the FT’s interview with Don Mattrick, head of Microsoft’s games business.
There will be a ‘creator’s panel’ at the Tokyo Game Show on September 24 featuring three of Japan’s top...
Why Japan’s handset makers are merging
NEC, Casio and Hitachi announced today that they are merging their mobile handset divisions. The following two graphs explain why:
Handset sales in Japan have been falling steadily since 2007, when the mobile networks cut subsidies on new phones, and the market has now all but halved in size. The blue line shows the twelve-month moving...
A difference between US and Japanese technology
The ever-entertaining Onion is running a skit about Yamaha of Japan under the headline:
Yamaha CEO Pleased With Current Production Of Jet Skis, Alto Saxophones, Snowmobiles, Power Generators, Scooters, Golf Carts*
The Onion futher refers to Yamaha’s production of synthesizers, PA systems, DVD players, tone generators, motocross bikes, power amplifiers, heart-rate monitors, signal processors, analog mixers, engine...
A good start for the PS3 Slim – but is it good enough?
The first data are starting to appear on sales of Sony’s revamped Playstation 3 “Slim” since price cuts went into effect at the start of September. The data are good. The question is whether they are good enough.
In Japan, research company Enterbrain says that Sony sold 150,252 PS3 Slims in the four days between its launch...
