Comments on The Other Eighty Percent: RIP: Sony Playstation 3

2006-08-23T20:08:00.000-07:00

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I still love my Nintendo!!!!

2006-07-16T19:41:00.000-07:00

I still love my Nintendo!!!!

so true! this generation's console war is definite...

2006-06-12T16:05:00.000-07:00

so true! this generation's console war is definitely going to be interesting. all of the e3 news inspired me to write up my thoughts too, so i'm always interested in hearing others.

the network platform is clearly a huge point of competition. it really is a fundamentally new and orthogonal aspect of building a new console. sony took far too long to accept that, and it could cost them even more than ms's delayed entry into the internet age and the browser market.

i also agree with you both that the wiimote is a wild card, especially since - virtual boy notwithstanding - nintendo has proven its ability to take input and game mechanic innovations and actually capitalize on them.

sadly, though, none of this necessarily translates into moving units. as much as it's fashionable to bash sony and hype nintendo right now, the numbers for the last generation speak for themselves. 100M ps2s, 22M xboxen, 21M gamecubes. that was despite nintendo's retail price advantage and franchises, and despite xbox live. (granted, live arrived too late to make a big difference, but still.)

ps3 will likely still be #1 this generation, if only due to pure momentum and AAA properties. i'm more interested in how much ms and nintendo can close the gap...and whether wii's price point triggers a "two console household" phenomenon. hey, it could happen. :P

I've been of the opinion for a while that this Mic...

2006-05-09T11:22:00.000-07:00

I've been of the opinion for a while that this Microsoft / Sony fight is not going to happen. Sony dropped the ball a long time ago and then they lost it. And it was the wrong ball.

I think that the potential for the Wii is the highest of all the next gen systems. The DS doesn't have the same specs as the PSP, but it's miles ahead in gameplay and all out fun. I think somewhere along the line, MS and Sony forgot that fun games are going to win, not pretty games. Look at any internet fad game - they're all addictively fun.

I'm still waiting for Google Games to come out... ;)