CES 2006 From A Gamer's Perspective

Gamasutra has an article looking at what game companies had on show at this year's CES. From the article: "Microsoft's keynote was similarly dry in the games arena, with the only major announcement coming from Microsoft's interactive entertainment vice president Peter Moore revealing that an add-on device capable of playing HD-DVD movies - and only movies, he'd later clarify, not games - will eventually be released for the Xbox 360. HD-DVD is, of course, the only major competitor against Sony's Blu-Ray for the next generation of high-definition media. Moore also revealed new shipping estimates for the Xbox 360, stating that between 4.5 and 5.5 million units will be shipped by the end of June of 2006, aided in no small part by the creation of a third manufacturing plant."

Comments

more 360's eh?

[arakon]

Too bad they didn't get the other plant fitted before the dismal Holiday Season launch. May have missed a lot of possible hype sales because of the lack of availability. That being said, if a premium box does become available around the time my Tax return comes back, I'll probably buy one. Barring that there aren't a lot more product failure reports and such. The problems that are out there now (rumored or not) got me kind of iffy and tempted to just wait out till all 3 consoles are out. Pick a definate winner and pick the other 2 up after a few price drops and decent must have games come out for them.

And fuck anyone who mentions Ebay. I am not interested in supporting scalping and artificial creation of demand by money grubbing mongrals who buy up every system in the store to resell. I hope MS can push the manufacturing up enough that these bastards get stuck with an ass-load of systems they can't sell for more than the MRSP.