Author Archive: Jeff Baker

As I’ve said many times in the past, every video game console on the market has a few exclusives that contribute to their continued success. Nintendo’s got their entire line up of classic franchises including Zelda, Sony has (or had, rather) titles like Metal Gear Solid and Microsoft’s got Halo. Each time [...]

As video game technology increases, so does the cost of development. This shouldn’t come as a surprise considering many high budget video game releases feature high definition graphics, extremely realistic physics engines and cut scenes that rival the graphics of high grossing movies. Luckily, many of the hardest hitting video [...]

We hear a lot about various smartphones and tablets from all different hardware manufacturers on a daily basis. However, while these two devices are garnering a lot of buzz, there’s a serious show down about to go down in the home theater hardware sector. The competitors? Google and Apple.

The video game industry is quite beneficial for just about every company that participates in it. Of course, these benefits are much higher for companies that push out hard hitting franchises like Bungie with Halo and Activision with Call of Duty and Guitar Hero but that’s certainly no surprise. When [...]

Mobile operating system are quickly becoming some of the most used pieces of software in the world. In fact, some of the more popular mobile platforms like Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android have seen such a spike in install base that they’ve quickly left any and all competitors in the dust. [...]

Software has quickly become a consumer’s deciding factor when it comes to making a hardware purchase. Don’t believe me? Just look at the iPhone 4 which, when compared to other phones, has quite low specs but has amassed a large following anyways because it’s the only phone that runs iOS [...]

Microsoft is one of the world’s leading software manufacturer so it’s no surprise that they have dipped their feet into many different industries. Everyone knows how prominent they are in the desktop operating system world with Windows but due to the poor reception of their Windows Mobile operating system, they [...]

Thanks to the emergence of the Internet, when you buy a technologically focused product it’s unlikely that it will stay the way you bought it for very long. The reason behind this phenomenon is a software developer’s tendency to update their products by way of digital delivery following their release. This [...]

When assessing the success of pretty much any industry, demographics must be considered. While there are several industries that naturally overlap, many industries have specific target demographics. For instance, a car company probably isn’t very concerned about a lower class 9 year old but probably cares a great deal about an upper [...]

Just about every big name device that gets released today is visually appealing in some way. Sure we’ve got devices that stick out like a sore thumb but compared to the biege boxes of yesteryear, we’ve certainly come a long way. However, with such aesthetically pleasing devices that garner such interest, there [...]