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?

Comments

Re:Holy SH%T?

[Guppy06]

News flash: One religion bad-mouths a major competitor! Film at 11!

What exactly what were you expecting? Have on seen who they elected as pope? They're not interested in making friends and playing nice, they want to convert people to Catholicism, period.

Re:Does it really matter?

[cowscows]

Please don't refer to them as "religious enough to be offended". A more proper term would be "out of touch with reality enough to be offended". There are many of us who have religious beliefs that we take very seriously, but those beliefs don't require us to take offense and whine anytime someone mocks our religion, or uses a part of it for something is strange as this bizarre ad campaign. Many of us are even the catholics that you despise so much.

It's not religious nutjobs trying to turn people against the devil. It's nutjobs who have lost perspective, and have for whatever reason, chosen religion as the outlet for their need to complain. It's not a problem strictly endemic to religious folk, there are plenty of people of all beliefs who are just looking for something to complain about.