Should Nintendo Just Stop Making Consoles?

There’s a certain narrative in the industry that to move to software only represents complete and total failure. Everyone points to Sega, The Dreamcast, and the fall of a titan in the industry to prove this point. but the Dreamcast was a terribly long time ago, and the world of technology is just a mite bit different from then. You can make billions of dollars on software alone, just like you can lose billions of dollars on hardware. Releasing your games on competitor’s hardware is a tough, tough pill to swallow, but sometimes you’ve got to take your medicine. You can stand to make a lot more money in consoles than you can in software, but that’s only if you make any money at all.

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Two new Sony phones leak through benchmark, one has a 16MP selfie cam

Thanks to the entries in an online benchmark database, two upcoming Sony smartphones have been outed today. For now their exact names aren’t known, they go only by their model numbers.

According to information from GFXBench, the Sony F3216 has a 4.6-inch 1080p touchscreen, a 21 MP rear camera with LED flash, a 16 MP selfie snapper, 2GB of RAM, and 16GB of internal storage. It’s powered by the MediaTek MT6755 Helio P10 SoC, which comes with a 1.9 GHz octa-core Cortex-A53 CPU and the Mali-T860 GPU. The prototype tested ran Android 6.0 Marshmallow.

Aside from its tiny screen size, this…

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