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Teenage Engineering ships its delayed modular synth and keyboard
Teenage Engineering announced it was adding modular options to its Pocket Operator line back in January. A month later, the company cited manufacturing issues when it cancelled pre-orders for the 170 analog synth and the 16 keyboard designed to be used with it. In an email this morning, Teenage Engineering says those two pieces of gear are shipping via its website. Indeed both are now listed as in stock when you add them to your cart.
Xbox 360 fall update adds 1080p output, HD DVD add-on hits Japan for $170 US
Even though we expected the Tokyo Game Show to be the coming out party for the Playstation 3, Microsoft just couldn't let them get all the limelight and Engadget has all the details. First, the Xbox 360 HD DVD external drive finally has a pricetag and launch date -- in Japan. ¥19,800 (about $170 US) and November 17 are the magic numbers, now the question is will the US be rounding up to $199 (or £199)? We'll have to wait to find out for sure but with X06 kicking off on the 27th, there's no way we'll be waiting too long. The other big news of the night is that the fall dashboard update will add 1080p output via analog to games and movies. If you have a TV (or projector) that takes 1,920x1,080 input via component or VGA you'll be able to select it in the dashboard and move on. Does this mean HD DVDs will play in full 1080p via component? AACS would seem to answer a big no to that question, but until more details are released we can't say for sure. Future games will have the option to render natively at 1080p (DigDug HD?) while current games will be upscaled. Looks like Sony isn't the only one supporting "the true definition of HD".Update:Word from Microsoft's press conference in Japan pegs the price at ¥20,790 ($180~ US) and a launch on November 22. This conflicts with previous info straight from Microsoft so we'll keep waiting to get all this straightened out and some local info.
EA chief backs up $170 price rumor...kinda
Executive VP and COO of EA's worldwide studios David Gardner recently backed up claims of a $170 equivalent price for the console in Japan. Citing that he "heard in Japan that the price is about $170," David Gardner has little in the way of concrete evidence to be submitting this information to GamesIndustry.biz. Either that, or he's just regurgitating what the recent financial report from NikkoCitigroup stated.So what does this mean? Nothing, absolutely nothing. Now, we're all sick and tired of hungrily biting at every little morsel of meat that is dangled in front of us, but this dry spell has made us all the more susceptible to these kind of "he said, she said" stories. Hopefully, with this week's keynote at the Leipzig Games Convention and the unveiling of new titles for the console, we won't have to be this way anymore and Nintendo will finally provide us with the sustenance we've so desperately needed these past few months.[Via Joystiq]
