Topic: Japan
Sony on Wednesday unveiled what it calls the world's first three-dimensional head mounted display, a device that enables its wearer to experience cinema-like virtual screen viewing.The "Personal 3D Viewer (HMZ-T1)", is a visor-like gadget weighing only 420 grammes (14.7 ounces) that wraps ...
Shares in Japan's Nintendo tumbled more than 20 percent Friday after it posted a first-quarter loss, cut forecasts and slashed the price of its 3DS handheld console less than six months after its launch.Shares tumbled to 11,170 yen at 0120 GMT on ...
Japan's Nintendo Thursday reported a first-quarter loss, lowered its annual forecast and slashed the price of its 3DS handheld console by 40 percent less than six months after its launch.The gaming giant booked a net loss of 25.5 billion yen ($327.9 million) ...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Nintendo Co posted its first ever quarterly operating loss, cut the price of its 3DS handheld game player and slashed its full-year profit forecast far below market expectations, hit by sluggish sales and a strong yen.The weak result ...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese mobile social gaming firm DeNA will seek to expand by buying more game developers, its new chief executive, Isao Moriyasu, said in an interview on Monday.In a bid to take its highly profitable business model global, the company ...
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said Tuesday sales of its new 3DS handheld game player had been weaker than expected in the US and Europe, as well as in Japan where the quake hit consumer sentiment.The 3DS, the world's first video game console ...
REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - An Icelandic court said on Thursday the widow of former world chess champion Bobby Fischer should inherit his estimated $2 million estate, which has been in dispute since his death in 2008.Fischer spent the last years of his life ...
Japan's Nintendo launched the world's first video game console with a 3-D screen that works without special glasses, a device the entertainment giant hopes will reverse its sliding fortunes.But as the DS3 makes its debut in Japan on Saturday, it will be ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nintendo's ADRs are trading at less than half their peak, but now is a good time to pay attention to the company given its earnings growth expectations, Barron's wrote in its January 31 weekly publication.Helped by its 3DS ...
Firstly, we take the Weird tech bus to Japan, a nation often - and unfairly, we think - associated with pointless, sexist inventions. It's also where you'll find the Tourist Bra, an outfit designed to make Tokyo more attractive to tourists. If ...
