Facebook is holding a press event at its headquarters on Tuesday.
The company hasn't said what it's announcing.
TechCrunch columnist MG Siegler says Facebook will finally announce a "Facebook phone."
Or, at least, Siegler kind of says that.
He writes:
Multiple sources have told us that they expect some sort of Facebook Phone to be on display on Tuesday.
Now for the caveats (and they?re important). It?s not entirely clear if this will be an actual piece of Facebook branded hardware or if they will simply use hardware from a phone maker to show off some sort of new Facebook OS for mobile. That is to say, it could very well be that the ?Facebook Phone? is more about a Facebook OS?running?on a phone (or a few phones).
But then he writes:
Complicating matters is all the chatter that Facebook has both publicly and privately told partners such as Google and Apple that they had no intention to build their own phones. Again, maybe it?s semantics. Or maybe Facebook simply changed their minds. Or maybe this phone/OS isn?t meant to compete head-on with the iPhone and the Android phones that Google focuses on. Perhaps this is meant solely for emerging markets.
Then Siegler quotes something Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at a TechCrunch event in September:
"It?s a juicy thing to say we?re building a phone, which is why people want to write about it. But it?s so clearly the wrong strategy for us."
Finally, Siegler nearly walks back the entire thing:
Facebook is fairly good at keeping things close to the vest these days. And the truth is that there are a number of things the company could announce on Tuesday. But speculation that is something smaller, like a new app, doesn?t jibe with the multiple sources telling us this is going to be ?a big deal."
So there you have it. Facebook will reveal a phone on Tuesday. Or maybe it won't.
The video game industry experienced some serious lag in 2012 as the NPD Group reports retail sales dropped 22 percent to $13.26 billion, down from 2011?s $17 billion.
It?s a pretty steep fall, but game makers won?t be rage quitting anytime soon. For example, the highest grossing film of 2012 ? ?Marvel?s The Avengers? ? was pretty much just a big video game on screen anyway. It made $623,279,547 in 2012.
Within the first 15 days alone of its November 2012 release, ?Call of Duty: Black Ops 2? grossed more than $1 billion. Full 2012 sales for the game are not yet reported.
So don?t toss your controllers anytime soon.
The market research company NPD also reported that gaming hardware led the decline in 2012 with a 27 percent drop from 2011?s total hardware sales.
Think about it though, there was not much hardware worth getting a hold of last year anyway, and Nintendo?s Wii U hit late in 2012. Even so, had it released in the first quarter, the Xbox 360 would have still owned Wii U in sales.
We?re not in the 90?s anymore; serious console gamers outside of Japan do not drop big bucks on Nintendo consoles anymore.
Still, the WiiU will might boost 2013 sales a bit, but the big jump will come when Xbox and PlayStation release their Kraken?s over the next 2 years.
So look for hardware sales to rebound, and with new consoles comes a rush of new games. Hopefully good games, but people will buy them anyway because of the guilty pleasure of playing on a new console.
So while 2012 was a wee bit bumpy, the industry is not dying.
As for 2012, check out the slideshow of the year?s top selling games.
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