Neowin News Feed for: Speculation

Discord sale reportedly in final negotiations

Paul Hill — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 00:26:01 +0000

Discord, a platform popular with gamers, is rumoured to be in discussions with another company to be bought. Nothing is set in stone but if a deal does go ahead, Discord could sell for over $10bn. Read more...

Three sources chime in on Windows Phone 8, painting a similar picture

Brad Sams — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:16:55 +0000

Get out the speculation bucket as a new bit of unconfirmed news is hitting the wire about how Microsoft will be pushing forward with Windows Phone and it is a dramatic change of pace. Read more...

Cheaper Blu-ray Player Sparks Speculation of PS3 Price Cuts

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 20:39:22 +0000

These days, literally the smallest whisper about falling costs of blue-violet laser diodes will set off speculation about a PlayStation 3 price drop. Yesterday, Sony announced that it would be shipping its second-generation Blu-ray Disc... Read more...

Response to Speculation on Next Version of Windows

Steven Parker — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:40:44 +0000

No official guidance yet; company will provide more details when ready. Microsoft released the following statement today from Kevin Kutz, Director, Windows Client, in response to recent speculation on the next version of the Microsoft... Read more...

More Speculation on Windows Vista RC1 Build Nr

Thu, 31 Aug 2006 07:21:53 +0000

According to Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows, the official Windows Vista RC1 build may be 5600.16384. You can check out in the right side of that web page, under the column "Releases I'm tracking" ,... Read more...

New speculation says PS3 launch price will match PS2

Thu, 26 May 2005 19:21:06 +0000

Sony Computer Entertainment may be planning to follow exactly the same pricing model with PlayStation 3 as it did with its two previous consoles, according to the latest speculation on price to emerge from Japanese... Read more...

Nintendo dismisses Zelda release date speculation

Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:26:10 +0000

Nintendo "hopes" to announce more about its new Legend of Zelda GameCube title at E3 in May, the company said today as it dismissed reports that game would be released in October as "speculation". Last... Read more...

Speculation mounts on ATI X800 scores

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:24:13 +0000

RUMOURS ARE jumping like fleas over the specifications of the speedbump coming in December for ATI's X800 series cards. The most probable numbers come from a forum posting over at HardOCP. With the release date... Read more...

Sega E3 speculation - Shenmue?!

Todd Tanner — Sun, 09 May 2004 19:35:26 +0000

This is more speculation than news, as the title implies, but bear with me. As has been discussed already, Sega has some undisclosed "bombshell" announcement for E3. Some theorize that it might be a new... Read more...

Speculation about Microsoft Xbox price cut on Tuesday

Sat, 27 Mar 2004 04:54:34 +0000

Tony Gikas, analyst for Piper Jaffray, is guessing Microsoft will drop the price of the Xbox game console to $ 149 next Tuesday morning. This is in an effort to generate some short term sales... Read more...

Sun rises on acquisition speculation

Sun, 04 May 2003 15:04:10 +0000

Is Sun up for sale? Shares of Sun Microsystems, which have fallen 92 percent in the past three years, rose 12.3 percent on speculation the company might be bought by a larger... Read more...

More speculation and observation on Longhorn

Steven Parker — Wed, 04 Dec 2002 15:52:52 +0000

The next version of the Microsoft Windows desktop is supposed to answer that question. Codenamed "Longhorn," the software is expected sometime in 2004 (probably later than earlier); Microsoft won't yet commit to a specific target... Read more...