aeropause.com - 3/10/2009
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When the PS2 came out oh, so many years ago, it promised us a newfound concept on the console: Backwards Compatibility. Before that, backwards compatibility was an idea that lived only on the PC, and it wasn’t even called that. It was just the fact that games would continue to run on ...
arstechnica.com - 3/9/2009
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arstechnica.com —
Digital distribution is big business for this generation
of consoles, and the smaller, cheaper games are often...
compelling buys for consumers. Sony and Microsoft have two very different strategies for downloadable games however, with Sony ...
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Microsoft enforces Xbox Live size limit—some of the time
seattlepi.nwsource.com - 3/13/2009
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Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it settled a patent-infringement
suit in which a New York company was demanding...
$90 million in royalties on the Xbox video game system. Financial terms weren't disclosed, Microsoft spokesman David Bowermaster said, adding ...
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Microsoft settles lawsuit over Xbox
bloomberg.com - 3/16/2009
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March 16 (Bloomberg) -- Sony Corp. is under
pressure from video-game publishers to cut the price of...
the PlayStation 3 console or risk seeing more development funds shift to Nintendo Co. ’s Wii. Sony, which has resisted calls for lower prices, is ...
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Sony Faces Heat From Game Publishers to Cut PS3 Price ...
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Does backwards compatibility matter anymore?
GoNintendo —
Backwards compatibility in consoles used to be a huge deal. Now, I don’t know that it really matters that much. It’s nice to have, but I wouldn’t call it a necessity. The Wii plays Cube games, but it offers a virtual library for older platforms. When the next Nintendo console rolls around, would backwards compatibility be a major selling point for you? Article here Posted March 10th, 2009 at 1:24 am | ...
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