So I am about 9 days early but I would like to nominate 4 products for “Electronic product of the year 2012”: Lytro The camera startup has made waves in announcing their product line up. Disrupting one of the biggest consumer electronic categories just highlights the potential the Lytro camera has. Sony PlayStation Vita Truth be told, Sony has not done enough innovation on their entire PlayStation range the last 2 years.  The Vita is a game changer as it incorporates functionality to Sony BRAVIA LCD TV’s and PS3. With cross platform play you can start playing a game on your PS3 console,...

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, the latest installment of the popular military shooter game has broken the launch day sales record. The mega popular video game generated $400 million in sales and shattered the sales record held by its predecessor Call of Duty: Black Ops. Shattering its own day-one sales records, Activision Publishing, Inc.,announced that its highly-anticipated Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has become the biggest entertainment launch ever with an estimated sell-through of more than $400 million and more than 6.5 million units in North America and the United Kingdom alone in the first...

Electronic Arts,  the behemoth console game developer has acquired PopCap for . You might wonder why this is a big deal. Simple. This is a sign of the change that is currently happening in the console gaming space.  Console gaming I believe will encompass handheld devices ( cell phones and tablets), which will compliment the current console gaming ecosystem. “EA and PopCap are a compelling combination,” said EA CEO John Riccitiello. “PopCap’s great studio talent and powerful IP add to EA’s momentum and accelerate our drive towards a $1 billion digital business. EA’s global studio and...

We live in a fast paced world and if you don’t adapt to the changes it brings, then you get left behind. New products are always on the horizon to replace existing products that are no longer exciting. Nintendo has unveiled their latest challenger, the Nintendo U in the console gaming battle against Apple,Sony and Microsoft. Apple is included in this space as handheld gaming on their handheld devices is slowly eroding market share from the big three. According to Nintendo, this is a new paradigm for video games and home entertainment. The Wii U is a new console with many facets. It includes a...

Sony has had a tough 3 weeks. It started with an outage to their PlayStation Network (PSN) which has escalated to one of the biggest network compromises in recent history.  I however believe that Sony should have done some things differently, but hindsight is an exact science which makes people seem smart: They should have played their cards more honestly with their users. The scale of the disaster was grossly understated, which is doing them no favors at the moment. Companies should have learnt by now that if you mess up, you come clean instead of telling a half true story. I get the idea that Sony...