Current Console Transition Far Worse Than Previous

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday March 2, 2006 @02:50AM from the it's-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it dept.

A report released yesterday indicates that this console transition is far worse than previous hardware iterations. From the Gamasutra article: "This console transition, he said, is 'far worse' than that seen from the years 1999 through 2001. Additionally, Lowell points fingers at the increased popularity of online games, a general lack of creativity in game development, and 'no Halo or Grand Theft Auto-type blowout titles launched in 2005,' echoing the sentiments of many other analysts." Next Generation has an analysis of what makes this transition so bad. (this last piece is satire)

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Re:Bad? Maybe. Different? No. by xombo · 2006-03-02 05:14 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Most of the Xbox team was hired right out of Sega after the demise of the Dreamcast. It's no coincidence, it's history repeating--and by the same morons that did it the first go-around. It's like Hitler coming out of hiding and saying, "You know what, I should try to take over the world and simultaneously ruin my image by frying minorities." Oh wait... Didn't you know George W. Bush's grandfather helped fund the Nazi party?