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New PS3 and Revolution Info at GDC

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the delicious-information dept.

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."

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  1. PS3 = A Sad Sad joke by Kamalot · · Score: -1, Troll

    Nobody cares about the PS3 any more. The PS3 is nothing more than a Bluray trojan horse, a way to get you to buy your movies all over again. Take a look at the PSP. Same thing; a directionless feature-bloated, slow-loading DRM nightmare.

    Anyone who is really a gamer will be busy playing on their 360 or Nintendo DS, two machines created specifically for gaming.

    1. Re: PS3 = A Sad Sad joke by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

      MGS4 is nothing but a tech demo and GTA4 is vaporware.

  2. Re:The race begins by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The 360 is effectively a dead platform.

    There are huge numbers of people reporting stacks of unsold 360s at stores in all three major territories. Microsoft did a pretty good job at getting people to believe console fans were in a desperate search for 360s, but now there are so many unsold 360s out there MS seems to have backed off to avoid looking foolish.

    Microsoft is going to have a 'relaunch' of the system in April complete with pre-orders and new marketing. So they obviously see the situation as dire for the console. I can't see a relaunch as doing anything to save the console.

    One has to wonder how long Microsoft will be willing to sustain a loss generating platform that caters to such a small demographic.