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Sony's Revolution Killer?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the we-shall-see dept.

jchenx writes "Sony, who was rumored to be developing an online service to compete with Xbox Live, may also be developing a counter to Nintendo's Revolution. From the Gamespot article: 'Sony intend[s] to make it their 'Revolution Killer.' They're working on tying in Eyetoy and some kind of controller similar to the Revolution controller. With a 100M+ userbase, tens of thousands of mature and documented dev kits and the very low cost of producing Rev style games on the PS2 platform they're expecting to mobilize another 50M units over the next 5 years precipitated by a $99 price point in 2007.'" This is a Gamespot rumour control article; At the moment, this is nothing more than conjecture.

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  1. Speculation by Gogo0 · · Score: 2, Informative

    IRC Log...

    [PSX4Lyfe]: OMG NINTENDO SUX
    [XBOX115623]: YEAH U DONT HAVE TO TELL ME
    [PSX4Lyfe]: gaycube lol
    [XBOX115623]: roffl mario and luiji have gay sex
    [PSX4Lyfe]: i bet dat playstation will make a controler dat beats the GAYVOLUTION REMOTE
    [XBOX115623]: xbox will to. bill gates will buy nintndo
    [PSX4Lyfe]: tell ur freinds dat playstation will beat NINTNDONT at theyre own game itll be sick
    [PSX4Lyfe]: playstation dvd remote will beat smellvolutio remote
    [XBOX115623]: ok will do see u at skool 2mro
    [PSX4Lyfe]: cu

    The next day on Slashdot...
    Sony's Revolution Killer?

    [XBOX115623]: o sick dude ur on gamespot and slashdots
    [PSX4Lyfe]: o snap

  2. Re:knock-offs by jferris · · Score: 2, Informative
    Nice attempt at sarcasm - keep trying!

    The reason that Sony was able to gain marketshare, in the first place, was that developers were practically begging Nintentdo to move to a disk based format. Sony was working on developing the CD hardware that Nintendo was going to use when there was some sort of falling out between the two. Nintendo put carts in the N64, as a result of it.

    In the current scenario, it would be Sony who is trying to play catch up. Add in the fact that there is another large and unknown part of the Revolution that Nintendo will reveal at E3 shows the fact (I think) that Nintendo anticipated such a move. Even if Sony could come up with a respectable knock-off, Nintendo will play their cards close and wait to reveal the last selling point until a time that they are ready to hit the market - or are at least at a point where they will beat others to market with whatever they are hiding.

    Given the on-again, off-again delays that are coming from the Sony camp, even if Sony can come up with a direct competitor to the new controller, I'd highly doubt it would be around in time to make much of a difference.

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  3. Re:knock-offs by bartyboy · · Score: 3, Informative

    The controller in question is probably this abomination. I agree with you, anyone can build a knock-off, but it's rare that they get it right.