The 360's Position in the Next-Gen War

An anonymous reader wrote to mention a great article on the Elite Bastards site looking at the Xbox 360's positioning in the next-gen market. In the first of a three part article series, the author looks at the lessons Microsoft learned from its first hardware outing, and what he feels the company's strategy will be in the near future. From the article: "Clearly my impression of the Xbox 360 is that it is positioned to compete significantly better in the next gen console race than its predecessor. The difference this time around is that although Microsoft will no longer have the decidedly most powerful console, they also won't have the most expensive console, and believe me, they will compete on price. The Xbox 360s media (DVD) and input device (gamepad) are safe choices and the CPU may be merely adequate, but the GPU is quite potent and should go far in keeping Microsoft's box in the same league as Sony's overall despite the disparity in time to market."

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Gran Turismo

[daverabbitz]

Gran Turismo is the single best (modern) console game I've ever played. I'm going with whoever has GT, probably sony.

I never understood how people can play FPS and RTS on console, without a mouse I'm hosed, especially with the huge dead-zones on Current Analog noobsticks.

I haven't seen a single game on Xbox that has made me want one. Gran Turismo on it's own is enough for me to buy PS3 and there will most likely be 2 releases for PS3, along with the mini GT's like GT:Concept.

As for platform fighters, I'll stick with neo-geo.