Nintendo outlines a foggy future that includes new hardware, pimping out Mario

 

Nintendo continues to reel following the Wii U’s wretched 2013 performance, with falling stock prices, self-imposed executive pay cuts, dramatically slashed financial forecasts, and a possible push toward new business models for the coming year. President Satoru Iwata, Shigeru Miyamoto, and fellow top executives faced investors in Tokyo yesterday to explain what will be done to fix the company’s ailing business. The Wall Street Journal was in attendance as a liveblogger on translation duty, so bear in mind that it’s possible some meanings were misinterpreted.

Facebook Reports Strong Game Revenue

Facebook has revealed that games on their platform are still making decent revenues even if the social network is struggling with keeping their users.
For the last quarter ending December 31, revenue from total payment and fees added up to $ 241 million. Revenue is up 8 percent, although again this comes exclusively from desktop users, a declining userbase for the network.

Facebook simply lost out on the fight for casual and indie developers to mobile, and shows no signs they know what it takes to win those developers back.

Sony is leaving the PC business

 

Sony has had a lot of trouble with its hardware business over the past half decade. Whether it was early lacklustre sales of the PS3, or a declining TV business thanks to increased Korean competition, it's struggled. Today it's a little healthier, but its still going to get out of one aspect of the hardware game, by selling off its Vaio PC brand. 

Facebook: Why Some are Choosing to Leave the Social Site Behind

Most wouldn't dare dream of leaving their favorite social media networking site: Facebook. Yet a new study takes a more in-depth look into how some people are able to leave the site behind and never look back.