Press Releases

May 2006 - Posts

• Microsoft Ripe to Enter Portable Gaming Market in Late 2007/Early 2008

  New research from The Diffusion Group suggests that Microsoft will likely leverage its Xbox franchise to enter the portable game console (PGC) market in late 2007 or early 2008. According to TDG's latest report, On the Future of Portable Game Consoles: Analysis & Forecasts, Microsoft is expected to embed a portable multimedia player in a handheld gaming platform similar in many respects to Sony's PSP.... Posted May 30 2006, 09:08 PM by The Diffusion Group with no comments

• Managing Metadata Key to New Set Top Box Services

  A Market dBrief™ from The Diffusion Group, a research consultancy focusing on the new media markets, finds that the set-top box (STB) may become a major choke point in delivering new digital services to the home. Satellite, Telco and Cable Operators are seeking to deliver services such as Video-on-Demand, Personal Video Recording, and Voice over IP over newly upgraded networks. These services will come together at the set-top box, which is not able to properly manage metadata to make the user experience as simple and clean as possible. ... Posted May 19 2006, 09:05 PM by The Diffusion Group with no comments

• The Diffusion Group Announces Report Series Focused on Portable Game Console Market

  Despite the fact that this year's E3 has been dominated by console-related announcements, new research from The Diffusion Group suggests that portable game consoles (PGCs) such as Sony's PSP and Nintendo's GameBoy Advance will be among the strongest areas of growth in the global gaming industry in the next five years. While this market is becoming increasingly important to hardware and software vendors, very little is understood about consumer usage models or how this rapidly evolving market will play out over the next few years.... Posted May 11 2006, 09:19 PM by The Diffusion Group with no comments