Archive for June 30th, 2009
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Normally when Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter whips out his crystal ball and starts getting the vapors, he doesn’t have time to turn on his minirecorder and take down the futurespeak channeled through his body. Luckily for us (and you!), he not only recorded it this time, but also wrote it down in the form of the 2009 Interactive Industry Report! We delved through the beast of a document this afternoon and found an interesting segment regarding the Nintendo Wii relying on “slower adoption rates of current generation technology” (read as: high-def displays) to help boost sales. Pachter writes on page nine of the report, “The global recession served to benefit Nintendo at its competitors’ expense,” referencing Microsoft and Sony as having slower console sales this generation due to HDTV functionality built into the systems. He argues that consumers who might purchase the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 are more likely to buy the Wii not only because of the lower price point, but because of the subsequent HDTV purchase price. “Expect most consumers to defer purchasing a PS3 or an Xbox 360 until they have purchased an HD monitor,” Pachter explains. Though we’re not convinced that the same folks who would be purchasing an Xbox 360 or a PS3 would be running out to buy a Nintendo Wii in every case, we digress. What say you , Joystiq Biomass? Original source: www.joystiq.com , delivered by rss-farm.ru
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Pachter: Nintendo is benefiting from global recession side effects
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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 5 views
Intel’s Clarkdale processors - based around a 32nm process - could hit the market ahead of schedule, if industry rumours are true. Rumour has it that Intel is accelerating its preparations for desktop processors based around a 32 nanometre process, according to “ sources from motherboard makers. ” The un-named sources, quoted by DigiTimes , claim that Intel will start mass-production of desktop processors based around its 32 nanometre process – codenamed Clarkdale – in the final quarter of this year, rather than the first quarter of next year as was originally planned. Figures obtained by DigiTimes claim that ten percent of Intel’s overall OEM desktop processor output will be in the form of 32nm Clarkdale chips – rising to 20 percent in the first quarter of 2010. This contrasts with Intel’s 45nm chips, which will make up 78 percent of the company’s OEM desktop processors in the first quarter of 2010 – with 65nm Pentium E2000 and Celeron 400 processors making up the remaining 2 percent, aimed that the budget-conscious. Intel, for its part, has neither confirmed nor denied any change to its publicised schedule for the release of 32nm parts, stating instead that it was unable to comment on as-yet unannounced products or production schedules. As yet, it is unknown if the 32nm based Clarkdale chips due to be released at the end of the year – if the rumours are true – are the ones we heard about at the start of the year which feature an improved version of the embedded graphics processor found as part of the company’s G45 chipset, or whether the initial run will be made available as a CPU-only package. Tempted by some 32nm goodness, or are you awaiting on clock speeds and official specifications from Intel before you make up your mind?
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Intel to launch Clarkdale early?
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More than 100 million used games are traded in the US every year according to analysts and account for one third of all sales. According to new figures released by industry analysts Wedbush Morgan more than 100 million used games may be trading hands every year in the US alone. To put that figure in perspective, that means that at least one third of annual games sales in America are made of used games sales. Interestingly though, while most publishers are of the opinion that used games sales are damaging the industry and taking potential profits away from publishers and developers (as the profit on used games sales goes only to the retailer) Wedbush Morgan reckons that used game sales are actually good for the industry as a whole. In fact, the research suggests that used games sales actually encourage gamers to buy more new games. ” The vast majority of used games are not traded in until the original new game purchaser has finished playing - more than two months after a new game is released - typically well beyond the window for a full retail priced new game sale, ” analyst Michael Pachter said in a report (via GI.biz ).
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100 million used games traded in US annually
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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 32 views
It’s been a while since we first looked at ToodleDo , an excellent web-based task manager. But as cool as ToodleDo is as standalone web page, it’s the integration with other services like Google Calendar that make it a task manager like this really useful. Recently ToodleDo launched a gadget for Gmail that makes it easy to view, create, or sort your tasks from Gmail, which is a killer feature for anyone who leaves Gmail open all day as they go about their other tasks. In order to use the ToodleDo Gmail gadget you’ll need to enable the Gadgets feature in your Gmail Labs settings. Google also offers its own Tasks application which you can also view in the Gmail sidebar. But while you can easily create tasks from email messages with Google Tasks, you don’t have as many options for sorting and filtering apps as you get with ToodleDo.
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ToodleDo gadget brings powerful task manager to Gmail
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