Posted on 04/01/2010 2:04:54 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
In the dog-eat-dog game console market, it's not about who starts first.
It is as clear as can be: Nintendo is stuck in the past, Sony is confused about the present, and Microsoft is preparing for the future. While the Xbox 360 may not be the console with the highest potential out there, Microsoft is playing an incredibly smart game against its rivals that will get bloody later this year. Here are three reasons why Nintendo and Sony are in trouble in the console market and why Microsoft will come out on top.
Three years ago, I wrote a lengthy analysis about the state of the game console industry and my assessment was very different than what it is today. Back then, it was Nintendo that had the clear lead, Sony was confused, and Microsoft’s Xbox 360 seemed to be a pizza-baking game console without an identity. The times have changed dramatically. Deep into the lifecycle of the three game consoles—a replacement for all of them is expected by 2013—there is an obvious generational trend and it does not take much to predict which vendor will claim the top spot.
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The Wii has been a breath of fresh air that has shaped the video game industry more than any other current-generation game console. The fact that the Wii retails for less than the other consoles, its simplicity, and its revolutionary game controller has served to give Nintendo the lead. While the PlayStation 3 (PS3) and Xbox 360 were geared for HD gaming and titles that rewarded you for killing as many opponents as possible with as many bullets available, Nintendo concentrated on making video games fun—and not just for those who had a video game console already in their family room.
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This is why I play XBOX 360. I love the acrid smell of video-game gunpowder in the morning. Smells like... VICTORY!
mine died with the red ring of death
I’m glad i picked up the PS3.
It is awesome and yes it does do about everything.
I’m watching a Hulu tv show on it as i type.
Hmm...2013 might be when I decide to finally pull the trigger and replace my Sega Saturn.
I think the author takes the possible impact of the Sony Move controller far too lightly. The Natal concept seems great, but I find it hard to believe that anything more than very buggy gimmick content will be available this year. Sony Move on the other hand seems like it will be ready for the holidays.
NetFlix on my XBox is awesome. Now I stay up way too late every night.
I just got the Blu ray version of Terminator Salvation in the mail today.
Can’t watch that tonight with an Xbox.....
We can stream movies from Netflix over XBOX LIVE!
I also watch them on my laptop.
very cool.
No but we can watch hundreds of other movies without waiting for a DVD. I do both. Great thing.
I like my ps3...head shots on Germans balloon in red gore in stop action.
shiver...if only sex was as good.
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What’s your PS3 user name, I’ll add you :-)
A friend of mine begged me to look at his sons’ PS3, suffering as it were from the Red Light of Death. He had me search “Red Light of Death” on youtube. Sure enough, there are numerous videos showing how to take one apart and to bake in an oven at 200deg C (the video came from the U.K.). That works out to about 360deg F. Anyway, I removed the heat sinks and inserted screws through the outside edge holes to act as legs to keep the board from touching the cookie sheet. I baked it for 10 minutes and let it cool naturally. It’s still working a month later. Oh, you’re referring to X-Box? Nevermind.
Same on the PS3, Wirelessly.
For the moment Due to a contract Netflix has w/MS we can watch Netflix on the PS3 but only with a special disk in the machine. That contract is to end soon and we won’t need the disk anymore.
I use this softare on my PC called PlayOn.
With it i can watch Netflix, Hulu, CBS (all their new shows and a bunch of classics), ESPN, Amazon, Youtube, MLB, Pandora, Comedy Central and CNN on my PS3 with more to come.
PlayOn offers a 30 day trial and will work with the Xbox 360 also.
I’m really thinking of dropping cable all together and getting a HD antenna and building a Media Server/DVR machine.
Why do I not like consoles? They have dumbed-down games that used to be really great for PC. I find it strange that games for consoles are written on PC, then ported over, usually very badly, to PC. TDU has XBOX 360 hand controller icons to navigate the menus. There are scroll bars, but they do not work. It's just as easy to play TDU, a driving game, with a hand controller as it is a wheel and pedals.
They also shipped an unfinished game for PC - you cannot finish the game, as you cannot do inter-club races except on a LAN. Not everyone has a LAN to their friends (my TDU friends are all around the world, kinda hard to do a LAN that way). Plus, Microsoft paid Atari to keep the PC version off the market for 6 months to give the XBOX a head start. Didn't work for me as I don't have an XBOX. But enough others have XBOX and PC and decided not to wait for the PC version, thus falling for MS's deception.
Codemasters new F1 game, F1 2010, is being written primarily for consoles, but there will be a PC version, but not with what PC gamers prefer, multiplayer. Oh sure, there will be MP, but you won't have a full grid or dedicated servers. Not even the ability to host your own race. You'll have to join a server, which may or may not be up, to play against other people.
Why do this? Because it's too hard to program the game so that consoles can run full grid and dedicated servers. So another potentially good game for PC's is suborned to consoles.
Eventually, consoles will be able to run games just as well as high-end PCs and game makers will stop making them for PC - it's time consuming, therefor costly, to try and make a game fit every conceivable configuration available to PCs. Costs will kill PC games before piracy will.
I’m mostly a PC gamer.
Due the Joystick of the PS3 i cannot play FPS’s on it at all. I usually just play my motor Storm and other racing games.
FPS’s were made for the mouse and keyboard.
Thats the wave of the future. TV Channels you want, over the internet.
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