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Sony's PS3 Strategy Brilliant or Insane?
1up's Jeremy Parish has a piece wondering out loud about the sanity of Sony's PS3 strategy. From the article: "The veil of mystery surrounding the PS3 is downright maddening, and a little worrying. Consider that by March 2000, the company had already set the PlayStation 2's October 26th release date in stone. Yet here in March 2006, Sony has only been willing to commit to a 'spring 2006' launch for its latest console. Less than ten days from winter's end and gamers are left scraping together scraps of conflicting information trickling from the company's various divisions to try and get a sense of the bigger picture." We may find out which side of the coin they're on tomorrow; The current rumour is there will be some sort of big announcement about Sony's next-gen console on the 15th.
Between the awesome lead XBox 360 has been able to gain given its earlier release date, this may be the end of Playstation. The next-gen Playstation sounds like it is a potentially superior product. But on one side, there's XBox 360 and the potential release of Halo 3. On the other side, theres Nintendo Revolution and its very unique controller. If Playstation doesn't find something to set it apart from these other two consoles, I believe Playstation's days are numbered.
since so few of us poster's read the articles, I noticed a throw in at the end of this one that caused major spewage:
"The 360 is proving to do just about everything right while Sony has offered nothing but cryptic promises."
now that's taken out of context, but its not even hyperbole. Its just flat out wrong. The 360 so far has done nothing right except come out first. Lets list the things they did wrong:
1) Under produced so that only 1% of the people who wanted one got one in initial release.
2) Under produced so that only 5% of the people who wanted one got one in the SECOND release.
3) No decent games.
4) that whole "broken" thing where you spent $800+ after waiting forever and it doesn't work. that went over REAL WELL.
5) did I mention that when it came out almost no one actually got one.
6) No decent games.
7) they were Microsoft. but of course, they can't help that.....
Ira
Is there a single new idea in the PS3?
Well, it does use CELL technology instead of the same old x86 Intel architecture. From everything I've read in non-game publications, it'll make the XBox 360 look like a Colecovision by comparison. I tried a XBox 360 in a store today, and it looked and played exactly like my PS2. I don't understand why the point of the 360 is, actually.
Nintendo all the way.
Nintendo? Don't they just make games for little kids these days?
and look at the DS now. I don't even know what the DS is. What's your point... that there's something called the "DS" that nobody has heard of, kind of like whatever Nintendo is making these days?
I don't respond to AC's.