CNN's Game Over On The 360

An anonymous reader writes "CNN's Chris Morris has taken a look at Microsoft's new system. He calls the system 'good, but not great' in a fairly lengthy, well thought out piece. The article also has an amusing gallery of rejected prototype designs." From the article: "Admittedly, tastes vary - so you could easily find a game out this month that's a 'must have' for you. (We'll have a closer look at the launch games early next week.) But if you're looking for something that's ground breaking and sets the trend for the system (as 'Halo' did with the original Xbox), you're not going to find it."

Comments

He works for CNN

[Dysfnctnl85]

'Nuff said.

Re:Core Gamer?

[ryanvm]

I consider myself a core gamer and I wouldn't touch this with a 10 foot poll on launch day. [...] I'd pre-order a Revolution right now if I could.

Uh, you spelled "MS hater" wrong. Seriously, the developers have had nothing but praise, everybody who's touched it says the hardware is good stuff. Yet Nintendo hasn't said *anything* about the Revolution other than, "look at this controller"; and you're ready to pre-order it? Whatever.

Sure the launch titles for the 360 are not great, but launch titles never are. Especially on a console that was sped to market to beat the PS3 (apparently not at the cost of hardware quality).

Re:Simple Differences

[buffer-overflowed]

I agree. Sony is stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Nintendo has the new modular wand controller, free online service, an online marketplace which includes their back catalog, and a far superior history of 1st party titles. (Additionally, their hardware is better suited to things like AI than either Sony or MSes, more cache, better branch prediction, etc.)

Microsoft has live, an online marketplace, and excellent relations with PC developers as well as strong 1st party development. Their main problem is Japan.

Both have awesome devkits(which you'd expect from two companies that have been doing software development since the 70s). Nintendo pulls ahead a *bit* here because they don't have the HD requirement so it will be cheaper to make games for the rev.

Sony has an un-unified online model, a devkit as bad as the PS2s, a bataran controller, and supposedly "better" specs. Downside is a lot of people have developed a hatred of them because their hardware is as breakable as a cracked egg.

All MS and Nintendo really need to do to put the nails in the coffin is woo Square-Enix off the PS3.

I'm waiting a bit to see how things pan out, but it's really looking like I'll wind up with a 360 and a Rev by this time next year.