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| 5:00AM 3/16/2010
Sony signs a deal with the Michael Jackson's estate worth as much as $250 million.
| 8:20AM 1/13/2010
Nintendo and Netflix (NFLX) are announcing Wednesday that the Wii game console will be able to stream movies from the video rental company. The Wii is the most popular of the current generation of consoles, which also includes the Microsoft (MSFT) Xbox 360 and Sony (SNE) PS3. Netflix already offers...
| 5:10AM 1/12/2010
Electronic Arts, the largest video game maker in the U.S., has released new guidance, and the numbers were awful. GAAP sales for its fiscal 2010, which ends in March, will be well below its November forecasts.
| 5:05AM 1/06/2010
Sales of the Nintendo Wii console hit 3 million last month in U.S. compared with 2.14 million in the same month in 2008.
| 7:30PM 12/07/2009
Barnes & Noble's (BKS) dedicated e-reader, nook, still remains a scarce sight as the holidays approach. Early-bird customers who expected their devices to ship on November 30 still haven't received them -- and won't for at least another week.In-store sales were supposed to begin Monday but have...
| 5:00AM 12/04/2009
CEO Howard Stringer has come up with yet another plan to reinvent his company: a service to move his movie and music content to his game consoles and portable electronics devices like the Walkman. It faces two big problems
| 9:30AM 12/01/2009
Video game console leader Nintendo says that U.S. sales of its Wii gaming system dropped 30% year-over-year to 550,000 for the week ending Nov. 28, according to numbers reported by Bloomberg. Nintendo cut the price of the Wii by $50 to $200 recently, while Microsoft (MSFT) dropped the price of its...
| 9:30AM 11/30/2009
It's looking like Amazon (AMZN) could have a clear field selling e-readers this holiday season. First Sony (SNE) announced that its e-reader may not be available for shipment until after Christmas because the Japanese consumer electronics giant couldn't meet its manufacturing schedule.
Now,...
| 5:00AM 11/19/2009
Sony (SNE) held its investor and analyst meeting on November 19th. Tucked among the presentation materials was information about the company's new targets aimed at getting its profits and operating income back to "normal" levels. The problem with the projection is that it is for the fiscal year...
| 7:20AM 10/30/2009
Sony (SNE) posted its fourth consecutive quarterly loss on Friday, as the Japanese consumer electronics giant, known for its upmarket televisions, laptops and game consoles, was dragged down by the recession and competition from other Asian manufacturers. The crummy quarter again raises the...