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Smoke and Mirrors from Sony and Microsoft

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the thinking-about-the-games dept.

An anonymous reader writes "History tells us: Don't believe what you're hearing about the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3.There was a lot of hype last week about the next generation of game machines. Microsoft said the Xbox 360 will ultimately reach 1 billion consumers worldwide, while Sony gave a laundry list of features for the PlayStation 3, showing some jaw dropping footage along the way. (Nintendo promised a Revolution, but didn't go much further than that.) I hate to be a wet blanket, but it's time to come back to reality."

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  1. Reality? by Oculus+Habent · · Score: 5, Funny

    Since when does reality have anything to do with videogames?

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  2. Re:Santa Clause by peculiarmethod · · Score: 4, Funny

    I know Santa Clause isn't real, but it's still fun to get excited about x-mas.

    This is Slashdot, my friend.. the higher up the UID's go, the more likely there are lots of pre-teens and teens.. many of which require you to preface your comment with *SPOILER*. Poor kids.

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  3. Re:Can get better later by flyingsquid · · Score: 5, Funny
    I have a gas with Nethack, which, at best in an X environment has some nice little graphics to replace alphanumeric characters. I still play Super Mario World on a SNES emulator because it's still a really fun game.

    yeah, but IMAGINE Nethack on a PS3 or Xbox360!

    Instead of being restricted to ASCII, you could use their massive processing and graphics abilities to employ other characters- Greek, Cyrillic, Chinese, Arabic, Linear B, Egyptian heiroglyphs, cuneiform... plus different fonts, italics, bold, all crisp and anti-aliased... imagine that instead of a puny little "@" you're now an upper-case italic omicron in Times New Roman, dealing out death as hordes of Copperplate Gothic Boldface "Ü"s and Comic Sans "Ñ"s fly at you from all directions! That would just totally ROCK!!!