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The Electronic Entertainment Expo is right around the corner and I’m already preparing myself for what I’ll see while I’m there: hundreds of exhibitors, thousands of attendees, dozens of booth babes dressed up as superhero-ninja-nurse-clown zombies and the games the industry hopes will take the world by storm over the following year. But I’m really excited to get a closer look at Project Natal and the Sony PlayStation Move, two new control interfaces.
At TechStuff, we’re preparing for our 200th episode and we’re getting excited. In the meantime, we published episodes 189 and 190 this week. Monday’s show was about the video game controller that shook up the industry just a few years ago: the Wii remote. On Wednesday, we explored the subject of cybernetics and asked ourselves if cyborgs were real or science fiction.
Jonathan and Chris give a detailed explanation of how the Nintendo Wii’s motion-sensitive controller, the Wii remote, works — and why it’s so popular with hackers — in this episode.
Lots of stuff going on today, so here are some highlights:
Nintendo dropped the price of the Wii to $199 in the United States. John P. Falcone wrote in CNET’s Crave blog about the change, which comes hot on the heels of Sony’s cut in the Playstation 3′s price to $299, and a little farther back, Microsoft’s cut in the 120GB hard drive version of the Xbox 360. I’m guessing that will help push the three consoles through the holiday season, but I’m also thinking sales will remain slow, based on what I’ve heard.
Andrew Nusca wrote at ZDNet that Microsoft‘s acquisition of Danger has yielded two Sharp-manufactured phones, the Turtle and the Pure. These are part of the so-called Pink Project. The pictures look a little like Danger’s Sidekick devices. A few days ago, Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet said Pink Project phones will use a version of Windows Mobile 7 and will be able to use the Zune music store.
Mega Episode and Video Games – TechStuff Podcast Roundup
by Jonathan Strickland | August 28, 2009
Hey there! This week was an eventful one for me and Chris at HowStuffWorks.com. On top of the podcasting, blogging, social networking and article writing, Chris and I tested a new project: TechStuff Live! Starting next Tuesday, we will be streaming a live show at 1:00 p.m. Eastern once a week. The show will cover tech news, sites and products that have landed on our radar and a few other fun segments. Plus it’s video! You’ll be able to watch as I say things that inspire Chris to hide behind his computer. We’ll have more details about the show on Monday, so stay tuned.
The episodes this week were inspired by listeners. On Monday, our goal was to demystify the terms megabits, megabytes and megahertz. Of course, we didn’t just focus on the mega range — we also talked about everything from kilobytes to yottabytes. But if you’ve ever wondered how many bytes are in a kilobyte (hint: it’s not 1,000), you should listen to this show. We also explain how you can calculate how long it will take you to download a file assuming your Internet connection is as fast as advertised.
On Wednesday, we talk about the current video game consoles on the market. Chris and I first did an episode about video game consoles more than a year ago. But that show was only five minutes long and didn’t have much detail. This time we give the subject a bit more time and explain why we don’t cover video game news as often as some listeners would like. We recorded the show the day that Sony announced price cuts in the PS3 but before Microsoft announced the cuts to the Xbox 360. With the cheaper 360, I think I may have found my next game console.
I’m beat. After three days of running around the Los Angeles Convention Center followed by a flight that touched down in Atlanta at midnight last night, I’m ready to go into a post-E3 coma. But I have miles to go before I sleep. For one thing, I need to tell you guys about the best stuff I saw at the conference this year.
Sony’s Playstation 3 is the only one of the major gaming consoles to have sold fewer machines than it did last year, according to Andrea James of seattlepi.com.
Nintendo’s Wii is running off with the prize, at the moment, though Microsoft’s Xbox 360 sold more in February 2009 than it did in the same month for 2008. And 2008 was a leap year, too. James quoted data from industry analysts the NPD Group, explaining that the Wii sold 753,000 machines in February this year, the Xbox 360 sold 391,000 and the PS3 276,000. The Wii sold 74 percent more machines, to the Xbox’s 53 percent. PS3 sales dropped 2 percent, but were up from January 2009′s numbers.
Also, games are on fire. More than 20 million games were sold last month in the United States — and that’s up 14 percent from the year before. Pretty amazing in an economic recession, isn’t it?
PlayStation Controllers May Make Your Hands Lumpy
by Jonathan Strickland | February 25, 2009
If you’re debating on which video game console system is right to you, this news item from Reuters may help sway your vote. Swiss scientists have identified a new condition called “PlayStation palmar hidradentitis.” The main symptoms are painful lumps that form on the skin of the palms of PlayStation players.
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