MetaFilter posts tagged with consoles

Playing with your Wii will make your expensive Plasma Screen go blind.

Effigy2000 — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 03:17:41 -0800

Wii have a problem... documenting in pictorial form the latest trend in gaming violence. Namely, that of damaged electronics due to Wii related activities. Apparently the phenomenon is so wide spread that Nintendo has had to go and make an official safety information guide for playing with the Wiimote.

PC or PS3: The hardest choice or anything but?

Effigy2000 — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 20:30:30 -0800

With hundreds of die hard PS3 fans camped outside Metreon, site of the San Francisco Playstation store and home of the official US launch for the Playstation 3, PC Gamer magazine showed up and presented one die-hard PS3 fan with arguably the hardest choice he'll ever have to make; to give up the right to own (or be gifted) a Playstation 3 for the next three years in exchange for a free $7,500 custom-built Falcon PC and "a better gaming experience." Here's what happened and here's the signed contract.

Happy Birthday Nintendo

MintSauce — Mon, 21 Jul 2003 06:25:40 -0800

The Nintendo Famicom is 20 years old ..... and I (along with may others here I suspect) have owned every single last version. It's oulasted many bizzare offerings from it's now defunct arch rival. There's even a booming market it both retro consoles. It all makes me feel older than I thought I was though.

holloway — Wed, 25 Sep 2002 01:36:56 -0800

"He was twitching and his eyes were not quite shut ... I thought he was dead." With the rise in home-computers during the mid-nineties came the fall of game arcades and their unhealthy drifter culture. The family-oriented nVidia and ATI companies provided home-entertainment and the final nail in the coffin for the infamous arcade. That was until late 1998, and DDR. Dance Dance Revolution swept the nation and kids exchanged "moves" like bubblegum. It was a juggernaut. It was out of control. DDR claimed victim after victim, with no signs of stopping...

AsiaInsider — Fri, 01 Feb 2002 20:17:17 -0800

BusinessWeek's Game Edition With all the hype that games, consoles, and MMORGs are getting in mainstream media, will this be another case of media overkill or will we see the industry blossom as a real alternative equal to the movie and record industry.

ttrendel — Sat, 22 Sep 2001 14:25:20 -0800

Microsoft Delays X-Box Release Sure it's only by a week, but the article also hints at anticipated availability problems. Why does this seem so familiar?

tsidel — Fri, 06 Jul 2001 11:02:21 -0800

Just because we can we should? Is this another case of rabid technology or will it really be useful? Can't the $225 per playstation-console be used to oh, say... clean up their water... or.. send a real life human being to their country to properly educate them?

Big Fat Tycoon — Fri, 18 May 2001 15:45:54 -0800

For the well-shod video game aficionado.

zeoslap — Mon, 12 Mar 2001 11:58:25 -0800

Playstation 3 chip to be designed by IBM. The three companies (Sony, IBM, and Toshiba) aim to design a "super-computer on a chip" with a wide variety of consumer applications, they said in a joint statement.

"The result will be consumer devices that are more powerful than IBM's Deep Blue super-computer, operate at low power and access the broadband internet at ultra-high speeds," the statement added

Wowzers!

Steven Den Beste — Wed, 10 Jan 2001 20:05:11 -0800

This guy thinks the XBox will kill off PC gaming. He also thinks the XBox is "one of the most important events in gaming in the next decade". Whew!