Who will win the next gen war? As we just saw, this is perhaps a question we shouldn’t even be asking.
Nintendo makes profits on every console they sell, so perhaps they are already winners. Then again, they’ve made money from every generation of their consoles, but few would say that the Gamecube was the “winner” […]

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Once again, in lieu of a regular article, I’m going to address a couple of the topics going around these days:

In the spirit of Versus’ article yesterday, here’s how I cope with crunch: I sleep less, I do less at home. Thank god I have very little social life, or that would also somehow start […]

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I’ve been fairly effusive about the Wii’s potential the last few weeks. So it comes as a bit of a shock to learn that none of the third party games for the Wii will have any online support until 2007. This news comes from deep within an IGN preview of the Activision developed Wii game […]

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There was a recent article on next-gen.biz, where an analyst was bemoaning the fact that few publishers would make money off of the Wii this holiday. Well, that’s certainly not Nintendo’s fault. Nintendo has laid quite a bit out on the table for a while now. It’s up to the publishers and developers to choose […]

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OK, time for something a bit more off-beat. There’s all sorts of speculation regarding the Wii’s launch date. We definitely know it’s coming in the 4th quarter, and we also know the launch details will be announced in September. It’s a safe bet to assume the Wii will launch no later than Thanksgiving in the […]

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