Alienware's M14x to lure gamers with its monstrous specs

After a long gap, we get to see a gaming laptop leaked by some Chinese site. Dell’s upscale brand Alienware, known for its Aurora series is going to launch M14x laptop in coming days. Lot of buzz is there about its specs & features. The laptop (as seen in the image) comes in RED chaises (Dell will add more colors 4 sure). Let’s talk about specs; the laptop comes with Core i7 quad-core processor, 14-inch HD display, NVIDIA GPU, 8 cell battery, 8 GB of RAM , 750 GB of space , wifi & Hdmi among other.  Dell has yet to confirm its existence. As far pricing is concerned, we hope it will retail upwards of $1000 mark. The machine looks bulky, maintaining Alienware’s culture. PC gaming is on ventilator, sales are down with few developers making quality games for PC Audiences. Recently, Microsoft admitted that “Future of PC gaming is Terrifying “. Expect similar comments from other big developers in coming days. My Question to Alienware is why they don’t foray into tablets.  Expect similar comments from other big developers in coming days. Tablet market is booming at present, there is no healthy competition except for few such as Apple & Sony. Incidentally, Apple never admitted that Ipad is meant for gaming but now they keep counting its performance with latest generation consoles, thanks to its dual core A5 chip. Another wealthy competitor in the gaming tablet market will be Sony’s rumored PlayStation centric gaming tablet. Though details are pretty sketchy at the moment, but analyst believes that it might give Ipad run of its money. So going by above mentioned instances, it’s clear that Tablets might become the 1^st choice among gamers

It’s Sony vs. Microsoft

Sony is riding high on the global shipments of PS3 beating Microsoft’s Xbox 360. According to an independent research, PS3 is way above Xbox 360. Sony was always a big in Europe & rest of the world. But its Seductress ,PS3 never overshadowed Xbox 360 in USA. . We are not saying that PS3 was a flop in states. PlayStation as a brand had pretty good run in United States of America, World’s largest gaming markets. On the other hand, Xbox 360 never got attention in Japanese market. I don’t know, why Microsoft is shy to announce that Xbox 360 failed to entice Japanese gamers. Europe, World’s second largest gaming market loves PlayStation over Xbox. In France, PS3 outsold Xbox 360 by 0.7 million units. Other big markets like UK for instance appreciate PlayStation over Xbox. If we go by recently released data, Sony's console is favorite among European audience, with 14.7 million units to the Xbox 360's 13.7 million units. We know that sales of PlayStation Move are not that great, if we compare with Kinect, but still sales are coming from Europe & Asia.

Xbox, brand owned by Microsoft lacks the Aspirational value among large number people. If we compare Xbox’s & PlayStation history, we get to know that, Xbox is not a successful brand in comparison with PlayStation. Prior to Xbox 360, the original Xbox failed miserably not only in its Home land (USA) but also in major gaming territories. Thankfully Xbox 360 saved company’s dwindling image in console business. Xbox 360 is a great console, best known for its first-person shooting games like Halo, Call of Duty etc. Its Xbox Live service is far far better than PlayStation Store. Although, Xbox 360 wins in games, power, performance, but it lacks in hardware, this is where PS3 wins. Lack of Blu-Ray player in Xbox 360 might be a big reason of now disowning this console. Another possible reason is” Lack of Awareness “among Asian & European users. Countries like India for e.g., where gaming culture is not high that of USA & Europe. There PlayStation is a king because of its Marketing & Advertising techniques thanks to SCEE.

Kinect has charged Xbox 360 performance in many parts of world. But is it enough for Microsoft’s to make Xbox, a household name like PlayStation. On the other hand, Sony the owner of proud PlayStation brand needs to focus on its online services like PlayStation Store & PlayStation Home (Remember?). A console without games is like a “BRICK”. It’s true, PS3 is a dream console for most of the developers & publishers, but for that quality games should be released in due time. Of late, Sony has got the right signal from gaming community that if they want to succeed, they have to release games. Now the company has launched Quality titles like Killzone 3(3D capable), Little Big Planet 2 & many more to follow like infamous 2, Uncharted 3 among other.

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Kinect proved Rockking for Microsoft

Credit- Microsoft

Microsoft claimed that its motion controller sensor, Kinect is one of the fastest selling gadgets of all time. The company shifted magical 10 million units to retailers. The Guinness Book of World Records has certified that Microsoft‘s Kinect is the fastest-selling consumer-electronics device, beating i family from Apple & not to forget Nintendo's money making Wii.

What makes Kinect so popular?

·        Microsoft’s heaving spending on Kinect sensor

·        PlayStation Move  failed to entice gamers around the world

·        Wii  flagging sales in recent months

·        Microsoft’s right strategy to tap casual/New gamers

·        All thanks to America , considered one of the biggest territory for Xbox brand

You talk about iPhone 5, I am not even PSP compatible :)

Credit- Sony Ericsson 

Finally, Sony Ericsson raised curtains from its mysterious   PlayStation phone. So, what’s the big deal?  Is it a PlayStation phone?  We give you the all the necessary details in this post, as we proceed you will get to know whether Sony Ericsson Xperia Play is really a phone with PlayStation capabilities or it’s just a big brother of NOKIA  N-Gage( it used to be a king of gaming phones of 2003).

Xperia Play offers simple gaming for those people, who just want an average gaming on the go. Play (Please Sony don’t sue us for using short form) comes with 50 games at launch (Do u think, gamers will digest this thing easily). Xperia play will be the 1^st play station certified phone, when it launches in spring exclusively on Verizon in states. Tetris, The Sims 3, Asphalt Adrenaline 6, FIFA, Bruce Lee, Star Battalion are some of the games which comes pre-loaded.  Will you be satisfied with  such an anemic line up?

According to Sony, more than 20 industries leading game publishers are making games for play. The worst part of this phone is that it only able to run Ps1 titles. Its pity that, the company behind iconic play station brand unable to make play run PSP games. The company recently announced, that its new software platform Playstation Suit will be used to run playstation downloadable content for handsets that are playstation certified.

The Play is identical to PSP GO, as it uses the same slider - form factor. The difference between the two devices is that the play uses the dual touch pad instead of analog stick. Don’t worry gamers; Sony will do the need full in XPERIA PLAY 5.0   

With mere 5.0 mega pixel camera, 4 .0 inch multi –touch screen & android’s latest version (2.3) makes this baby not so happening. Now, a day’s most of the smart-phones comes with monstrous dual –core processor but this phone lets us down with just single core processor. We believe that a gaming phone should be more power full than an average smart –phones. In that case play sounds like 2010 . 

Conclusion – The Xperia play offers nothing spectacular but it managed to come closer to PSP  

Meet World’s 1st Playstation Certified Phone : Sony Ericsson Xperia Play

Credit- Sony Erisson 

Sony's fight to re-gain lost ground

If rumors are to be believed, Sony is looking to expand the value of its upcoming (NGP) console by simultaneous retail and digital videogame releases. According to popular site Eurogamer, “NGP is a developer’s dream—Sony is finally doing the things developers have been crying out for for years. Sony is also planning to unveil more details about NGP at Gamescom , Europe's largest Gaming expo. It's true to say that NGP a.k.a psp2 has ps3 level graphics, but will consumers buy NGP(Next Generation Portable) as handheld gaming market is bleeding at the moment . According to leading market research , Apple iOS devices such as iphone & ipads has become a challenger to  market leader  DS followed by PSP. If Sony wants to succeed over 3DS (Nintendo's upcoming glass free 3D handheld console), they must price NGP as par with 3DS .One of the biggest worries for Sony is to retain third-party developer support for NGP, as they had a bad experience with last generation PSP. 

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