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Weak Dollar Preventing PS3 Price Cut?

July 7, 2009

My buddy Justin Alderman at GamerInvestments.com makes the case:
Back in September 2008 the Fed drastically increased the monetary base by almost $1 trillion dollars in an effort to encourage banks to ease up on credit.  That increase in the monetary base is by far the largest in U.S. history and when combined with the current [...]

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The Sony PS3 Needs a Price Cut NOW

April 17, 2009

Yesterday we learned that Activision Blizzard (ATVI) is doing well. It’s too bad we can’t say that for the rest of the industry! Last night, market-research firm NPD reported video-game industry sales for March 2009, and there wasn’t much to get excited about.
Overall sales fell 17% to $1.43 billion, with hardware down 18%, software [...]

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Is Sony Right to Brag About PS3 Software Attach Rates?

April 16, 2009

Wowie! Sony (SNE) is out there bragging about the PS3’s attach rates for blockbuster titles relative to the opposing Microsoft (MSFT) Xbox 360:
According to Sony, as of the beginning of March 2009, the Xbox 360 SKU of Street Fighter IV has only outsold the PS3 version by about 44,000 units thus far — "that’s closer [...]

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Microsoft Extends Xbox 360 Warranty for E74 Victims

April 14, 2009

Good news for Xbox 360 owners plagued by the E74 error, which according to media outlets is related to the AV cable, scaler chip, or GPU – Microsoft is extending your warranty for it!:
While the majority of Xbox 360 owners continue to have a great experience with their console, we are aware that a very [...]

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OnLive Is The Next Sirius Satellite Radio

April 13, 2009

OnLive has been making a lot of headlines lately. The company thinks it will kill console gaming. Others think it will fail.
And what do I think?
OnLive is the next Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI).
OnLive’s management is out there talking a lot of smack about how amazing their technology is and how it [...]

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5 Reasons I Don’t Like Microsoft Here

July 20, 2008

Okay, I’m not trying to piss on Microsoft here, but I performed a Google image search for Microsoft and this is what I found on the second page. So I really had no choice but to use this pic!
Now, back to business. Microsoft is certainly a cheap stock following its recent decline, but I’m not [...]

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