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The Economist Looks At The Console Industry

Posted by Hemos on from the what-will-happen dept.

Fromeo writes "The Economist is running an interesting article discussing the state of the console industry, along with their usual interesting graph, showing the cycle that the industry follows."

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  1. Consoles.... by DigitalHammer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why buy them? As my friend would say "They're a downgraded computer in a shitty-looking box".

  2. 8192 bits by 2030! by Wesley+Everest · · Score: 4, Funny

    Gotta love how the game industry plays with their numbers of bits. I imagine it'll take another hardware generation or two before the marketing guys come up with another number to hype.

    1. Re:8192 bits by 2030! by Fnord · · Score: 3, Funny

      I wonder how these reporters would react if you pointed out to them that the Gamecube and Xbox are both 32 bit and the PS2 spends most of its time in a 32 bit mode.

  3. Slashdot linking to The Economist... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... is like the National Enquirer mentioning Scientific American.

  4. Wow (graph error) by simm_s · · Score: 3, Funny

    The X-Box has a 128bit processor, dude I can't wait until Intel releases that for my PC.

  5. broken metaphor by bigdavex · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nothing illustrates the battle's ferocity better than the eye-watering price cuts of the past few weeks.

    It makes people cry? Maybe the hardware makers, I guess.
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  6. Huh? by Ex-Parrot · · Score: 5, Funny
    Sony's PlayStation business currently generates around 60% of the firm's profits. That figure has exceeded 100% at times.

    That sounds like either new math or Andersen accounting practices.

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  7. Re:More interesting quote than that... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    By hiring Arthur Anderson ;) ;)