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The State of the Game Console Wars
An anonymous reader writes "Two years after the next-gen game consoles hit the market, the verdict is in. What does the future hold for each of the Big Three? Here is a thoughtful but crude summary of the X-Box vs. GC vs. PS2 ordeal."
The story in the link disgusted me. I don't want to see graphical stuff like that without a warning. Someone go back and add a warning to the link, for godssakes.
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Its pretty damn apparent that this article is a joke. I mean, look at the webpage its from. I could tell you it was just a joke by hovering over the link and looking in my status bar. Really, come on editors I know its late at night but you could at least TRY!
The article blatantly ignores well-known facts (like sales numbers): "There is a feel of inevitable victory with the X-Box line, despite the fact that this version is still 40 million units behind the Playstation 2 in sales." Furthermore, the article doesn't bring up much else that would be relevant in the console wars (like profit and software sales numbers).
The article brings up stupid, childish stereotypes as the basis for its argument (Nintendo being kiddie)?
I see no reason why this "article" made it to the games section. But the front page, too?
This "article" isn't news, and it isn't informative. It doesn't bring up any good points regarding the console wars (an already touchy subject). Was this "article" was allowed to go through because it was humorous? Please. These overgeneralizations, playing out of stereotypes, and crude (and unfunny) humor in this biased piece of crap article are a waste of time. It's nothing that can't be found at any videogame message boards full of trolls with no real argument.
I'd say that this was written by a 12-year old, but I'd offend 12-year olds everywhere.
You must have been living a real protected life...
I'm suprised that your NetNanny installation failed to warn you of the computer-rendered half nude women as well as the testicles images.
Grow up... I mean that literally.
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Ahhhh, I see. You're pissed off because the Billy Goats Gruff crossed your bridge before you could stop them.
My apologies. Hope you enjoy the mud down there.
i am a soviet space shuttle
What the article does not say is that the console market will soon die. Aside crude jokes about a man's manhood and the type of console he has (which is relatively true), there are no new "killer apps" for home consoles, and home consoles will die, just like arcades did.
What will XBox2 and PS3 have ? sports games, FPSs, 3D platformers, racing games, beat-em-ups, etc. The same stuff like the current generation when it comes to gameplay. The only difference will be visual: the new consoles will have much better graphics. But, will the graphics alone be a sufficient reason to update ? I think not, since the graphical difference would not be that great. The graphics difference between PS2 and PS1 is huge. The graphics difference between PS3 and PS2 will also be huge, but the average person will not be able to spot it!!! Since pixels will be so tiny, it would take a computer high-definition monitor to really evaluate the difference.
Imagine the situation: take a football game (soccer for US people) like ISS (ISS Pro Evolution) by Konami. Imagine that the PS3 version has much better graphics: the players are much more realistic, with clothes folding, with real gravity, with much better animation, but with the exact gameplay. Let's say that you already own a PS2 with the aforementioned game. Would you buy a PS3 for playing the new game ? I wouldn't. If the gameplay is the same, why spent all those money for the same stuff ?
How many beat-em-ups, driving games, FPSs, 3d platformers we could play ? I am personally bored with all these types of games. It's only young people that have no previous experience in games that will buy new consoles. Current console owners will not throw their boxes out just because a new console has much better graphics.
By the way, its the Sony hype machine that killed the Dreamcast. I am saying this because before PS2 goes out, there were rumours that the PS2 could do 75 million polygons and such, promising previously unheard realism and such, which of course proved to be complete nonsence: the PS2 can barely do 10 million polys, and that number depends on many factors. Now, we see the same pattern: that PS3 will be 1000 time much more powerful than PS2 and such BS. Well, we are promised 1000x10,000,000 million polygons per sec = 10,000,000,000 polygons per second!!! that's 10 billion polygons!!! Isn't that an obvious lie ? GPU technology has not advanced that far yet.
SEGA was a fool to abandon the Dreamcast, especially with the tile-rendering architecture that used. They could have provided an upgrade path by simply sticking an extra GPU. Some say that console upgrades never work. This is true for upgrades that are expensive and hang outside of the machine as separate boxes. I am talking about simply sticking a new PowerVR chip on the Dreamcast motherboard. It could have, let's say, 4 slots for 4 PowerVR GPUs, but the initial box would come with only one. Then, if one needed, he/she could buy a new chip and have it plugged into the box in the shop that the console was bought by a simple slide-in move.
Even if the upgrade path would not work, PowerVR chips are very good CPUs. They could make Dreamcast 2 with very little cost, by simply adding more GPUs.