After a strong Black Friday showing, Nintendo now has to focus on maintaining the momentum for its products over the next five weeks of the crucial holiday season, the company’s U.S. president told the Reuters Global Media Summit on Tuesday. Reggie Fils-Aime, the president of Nintendo of America, said the company records 60 percent of […]
Video game deals to steal Black Friday spotlight
Retailers are saving some of their deepest discounts on Black Friday for video game products, with large chains Wal-Mart and Best Buy putting some rock-bottom prices tags on hot games to lure shoppers into stores. The $64 billion global video game industry faces the challenge of selling an array of highly anticipated game titles that […]
DirecTV streams NFL games for added sales
DirecTV is expanding its NFL Sunday Ticket television package, which lets viewers watch football outside their local markets, to see if it can make some extra money from broadcasting the games on the Internet. DirecTV, like rival Dish Network Corp, has been trying to boost its subscriber numbers as lower-cost online entertainment options from Netflix […]