San Antonio — The Progressive Retailers Organization was at the Westin La Cantera Hill Coun
DirecTV announced plans to launch the world's first professional video gamer's league, and gave an update on its efforts to add up to 100 national high-definition TV channels and up to 1,500 local HDTV channels starting around the third quarter of 2007.
As expected, early sales of Nintendo of America's new handheld game player Game Boy Advance created a stampede of retail traffic into toy and consumer electronics stores during the platform's June 11 release week.
Major retail chains, including Best Buy, reported selling through initial inventory allocations in a matter of hours on a somewhat staggered launch date, which came two-days later than the manufacturer's announced June 11 national release.