Sony And Nintendo Have Next-Gen Consoles Too

GameDailyBiz has some coverage of the PS3 and Revolution, to contrast with the avalanche of 360 information in advance of the console's launch in November. First up is a look at how making fun of the King of Kings may have been a bad decision. From the article: "Moving from the theological to the practical implications of Sony's snafu, the company couldn't have picked a worse time to offend its customers ... Sony has already conceded a six-month head start to competitor Microsoft in the upcoming market-share battle for the next generation of game consoles. Microsoft's Xbox 360 is expected to debut this fall; Sony's PlayStation 3 will not arrive until the spring of 2006." Meanwhile, Jim Merrick of Nintendo Europe has thoughts on marketing, online play, and the Revolution's potential. From the article: "If we follow what Iwata-san calls 'the past success formula', if we keep refining the existing model - more power, more pixels, more polygons, more levels, more enemies, better AI - we're actually making the games for a narrower audience playing those kind of intense games. We need to take a step back and refocus on a broad audience where we reach to everybody otherwise we're going to see the market start shrinking - as we're already seeing in Japan." Finally, Joystiq interviews Miyamoto, and he says wacky stuff. Who would have guessed?

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If you looked at the ad...

[MMaestro]

You'd see how incredibly offensive it is. It has the image of a teenage male wearing a gray crown of "thorns" with the PS1/2 controller symbols along it. For those who aren't informed on Christianity, the crown of thorns refers to the crown Jesus was forced to wear while being tortured, while carrying his cross and while being crucified.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050930/tc_nm/italy_ad vert_jesus_dc has an image of the ad, although it is not a perfect scan, it captures the most important part.