One reason for the decline, analysts believe: It's been years since a new game machine was released.
Microsoft seems unperturbed and investors are instead concentrating on the approaching launch of the new Xbox 360 video game machine.
Knobs and switches on its World Core synthesizer module adjust the game machine's maps, graphics, characters and even physics through voltage tweaks.
Microsoft's own game machine, the Xbox 360, is a bona fide extender.
Nintendo sank into a loss the previous fiscal year largely because of price cuts for its hand-held 3DS game machine, which shows three-dimensional imagery without special glasses.
The console and Microsoft's Xbox 360 are neck-and-neck in global market share as the No. 2 game machine, behind Nintendo's Wii, among the current generation of game machines.
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Asahi in Japan offers the first word on how the 3DS achieves its 3D-ness by suggesting that the new portable game machine with feature a parallax barrier LCD from Sharp.
Although the Xbox 360 came out a year before PlayStation 3, Microsoft's game machine has been more popular, largely because of its robust online service, Xbox Live, which allows people to play games with others online.
That should unleash some healthy competition: Within a few years it may not be uncommon to buy a set-top digital box that can not only decode cable transmissions, but is also a web browser, a game machine and a DVD player.
Jasper is making up for the revenue shortfall by pitching his audio technologies to new customers, winning a place for it in both the hot Xbox 360 game machine and as an option in all new Volvo models, which will offer home-theater-quality Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound.
"I feel a device like Wii U, with its ability to continue to offer new features and that network connection and the connection to the TV and the interface, really makes it feel that it's more than just a game machine, but something that offers a lot of practical use and practical purpose in the living room, " he said.
And as you can see from the last levels of the game (Welcome to the Machine), the game requires at least skill, strategy and situational awareness.
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"The chicken-and-game problem has not been solved, " he said of the need for both game software and machine hardware.
Instead of displaying the pixels and textures in a game, 3D machine vision is pulling in those polygons and textures into the compute device.
But if you're a 3D-game fan, this machine's Diamond Viper V7770 graphics card will probably be the major draw: It delivered smooth motion and solid performance in our tests using Redline Racer and Incoming.
The game is a constructed system, a machine, and if it is a single-player game, it will be enjoyed, completed, and discarded.
Nor will it play "Halo" or any other game that would overwhelm the machine's limited storage.
The system was designed by the team that thought up the Game Boy, but the machine was barely portable.
Players trek through the game as Edgar, a vending machine toy in search of his owner.
Some entertainment gimmicks blur the line between simulation and reality, like game manufacturer Namco's audition machine.
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Len Ainsworth gained a solid foothold in Las Vegas for his small betting-machine company, Ainsworth Game Technology, and saw its stock quadruple over the past year.
That enabled them to install a racing game and play it, using the machine's pin pad and screen.
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When your smartphone is docked with the new app, it transforms into an augmented reality gaming machine with cross hair and game data on view.
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Kasparov talked about the game more like a poet than a calculating machine.
This action followed a letter to state officials from a couple who, driving back to Boston on Christmas Eve, noticed a "young man pointing a life-sized machine gun" at a video game inside the Massachusetts Turnpike's plaza in Charlton, about 100 miles from Newtown.
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This action followed a letter to state officials from a couple who, on their way back toward Boston on Christmas Eve, noticed a "young man pointing a life-sized machine gun" at a video game inside the Massachusetts Turnpike's plaza in Charlton, about 100 miles from Newtown.
Beercade was created in-house by McKinney from the Flash-based game, The Last Barfighter, to the arcade machine itself.
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The "man or machine" question becomes more prevalent as the game progresses, and I found myself looking at different missions and scenes through that lens.
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