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New PS3 and Revolution Info at GDC
GameDailyBiz has a talk with Jamil Molena, the Director of the Game Developer's conference, about the upcoming event. Some interesting stuff about what to expect out of the event, as well as some happy news about the Sony and Nintendo keynotes. From the article: "BIZ: What can you tell us about Phil Harrison's keynote? Will we finally get some new information on the PlayStation 3? JM: The answer is yes. In general, platform providers have a unique opportunity at the GDC to share knowledge with and inspire the people who will make or break their consoles, namely the game developers themselves. With that in mind, this GDC keynote, along with the Nintendo keynote by Satoru Iwata, have both been in development for several months, and contain significant editorial value and developer takeaway."
While I'd like more information on the Revolution, right now I'm just waiting to find out when the DS Lite will be available in the US.
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I wonder how long it will take for Nintendo to announce the ability to play the classic games downloaded by the Revo to also be able to be played on the DS.... that would be a great announcement. I would cry for joy...
"One has to wonder how long Microsoft will be willing to sustain a loss generating platform that caters to such a small demographic."
The Xbox project is massively unpopular at Microsoft and with stockholders. I was shocked to see some of the comments from employees on the minimicrosoft discussion board recently. And shareholders have been screaming over the massive red ink with little to nothing to show for it.
I have to imagine Microsoft really doesn't know what to do with the Xbox project. It would be embarrassing to have to cancel the product. But with the 360 doing worse in both hardware and software sales than the first Xbox they have to be having some painful reality check meetings up there in Redmond.
I'm sure they can see like everyone else the excitement the PS3 and Revolution are generating compared to their own system.
Personally I think the Revolution is gonna get sooo much more media attention than the PS3.
Think about it, the only thing people really wants to know about the PS3 is the price and release date at this point, nothing else.
The Revolution on the other hand is another whole matter: Price, release date, launch-games, when/what/price of older NES/SNES/GC/N64 games, what other features theres gonna be including the 'mystery-feature'.
On top of that, most are looking forward to how the new controller is gonna revolutionise gaming as we see it; Mario and Zelda is entering whole new era's IMO. And every other game that has a potent developer for that matter..
Nintendo really nailed their console this time - But oh boy, they needed it for once.
I'd like to add my little bit of speculation to this, since that seems like what we are doing. First the revolution is hardly Next Generation, but this should not be taken as a bad thing. The revolution is side stepping the whole generation and trying to go for something new. Sadly this puts them in the same position as the Sega CD was a few years back. It will be a cute novelty item, but not something used by the average consumer and will evetually lead to the down fall of nintendo in the home console market. The best part about that is that they will learn from their mistakes and return to focusing on quality handheld gaming and actually produce a power replacement in the GameBoy line, possibly even having a more powerfull machine than their competition for the first time since the release of the original gameboy.
Microsoft of the other hand will still churn our Xbox after Xbox dispite the horrible sales they will see in this and future generation.
Someone will eventually come in a usurp Sony dominance in the console market, but I can't see who that will be yet, since none of the current makers seem to have the momentum to do so.
Oh, and people should stop fooling themselves into beleiving that the market can't support a $700+ game console. That is not high compared to the relative cost of previous consoles.
(By the way, I see both the titles you identify are not only sequels, but sequels of sequels of sequels. Any news on whether there'll be anything new for the PS3?)
Lair and Warhawk both look interesting, at least to me, and it looks like both of those titles may be launch or near-launch titles in the US. But, of course, humorously, since they aren't sequels, we don't know if they'll actually be any good and nobody really cares about them.