Crowning the king of the consoles
Post by Supervirus , 2008-12-26 08:05:29 Source： bbc Editor：ShirleyTags： console
Technology editor Darren Waters looks back at an eventful year in the world of game consoles.
At the start of 2008 there were three key questions that needed answering about the future of the games industry:
If you are reading this and pushed for time, then the short answers are Yes, No, Not quite.
Early lead
At the start of the year the Wii was way out in front in terms of an installed base with 20 million machines in homes. By comparison the Xbox 360 was in 15.5 million homes and the PS3 nine million.
Analysts Screen Digest predicts that Nintendo will more than double its installed base of the Wii by the end of this year to 42 million, amplifying its lead over Sony and Microsoft.
- •Online Consoles to Reach 79 Million by 2012, says Screen Digest
- •EA CEO: We Would Like to See Console Price Cuts This Year
- •Consoles to go 'the way of the dodo,' says Spielberg
- •Analyst claims this console generation will be the last
- •GDC: Zeebo Console Unveiled
- •Introducing OnLive... and the End of Consoles?
- •Bad Times Mean Consoles Are Getting Pawned
- •Do console sales make your system better?
- •PS3 is the More Affordable Console
- •How Did You Decide Upon Your Next-Gen Console Purchase?
- •Nielsen Numbers Put PS2 as 2008 ' s ' Most-Played ' Console
- •Super Smash Brothers Coming To Japanese Virtual Console
