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Kutaragi Thumbs Nose At Other Consoles
Ken Kutaragi thinks very highly of the PS3. So much so, that he is once again badmouthing his competitors in the press. From the article: "This time, Microsoft has stated clearly that it is going after PlayStation. However, they're going not after the PlayStation 3, but the PlayStation 2. They were looking at 2, and that's why [Xbox 360] became like that". And by "that", he probably means crappy. I'm just guessing.
...just keep hyping yours and putting others down, that way you'll get press and people start believing you.
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To be fair, I don't think any of the next gen consoles are going to use dedicated sound processors. Maybe the Revolution, but I'm pretty sure the 360 isn't.
I think he wants to dreamcast* the X360. Make everyone believe the PS3 can do much more and is just around the corner, no matter what it really can do or when it really launches. If nobody buys the X360 at first it might look like it crashed and publishers might decide there's no profit to be gotten there. When the publishers are scared away that means less game releases (look at the Gamecube or PSP) and without games there'll be less users and no reason for the publishers to come back.
*= oops, eighth deadly sin: Thou shalt not verb nouns.
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Except Microsoft has (presumably) learned all their lessons from the original X-Box and from what I've seen they've managed to stable a large number of publishers for the 360, far more than they had last time. In fact they will most likely be neck-a-neck with Sony for this next round. Except by the time Sony launches, MS will probably be around to the next shopping season's worth of game titles, making Sony enter the market with possibly *fewer* titles than the 360.
And I wouldn't imagine for a minute MS isn't going to be throwing a lot of weight at keeping those publishers in line - this battle is worth more to MS than the browser wars were!
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MS or Nintendo didn't have actual hardware at their demos, so surely the comment applies to all 3?
No, the DS wasn't the one that was rushed. It was just easier to port PS2 code to the PSP. Hell, Sony didn't have hardware development kits to developers until September 2004.
I'm willing to bet that all the PSP launch titles that were not ports of existing PS2 games were games that started development as PS2 games.
On the other hand, the DS has a crazy new interface that does not lend itself to simple porting. At E3 2004, The DS was playable and the PSP wasn't. If either handheld were rushed, it was the PSP.