More Next-Gen Console Smack-Talk

With the PS3 now out the door in Japan, Nintendo and Microsoft are engaging in what is essentially the last moment for smack talk before everyone's cards are on the table in the U.S. On Microsoft's part, they're complaining in Europe that they want to go head-to-head with the PS3, and can't until next year. Xbox EU Boss Neil Thompson says: "In a lot of ways we'd like people to put the system side-by-side and see whether people want a platform where they're paying for Blu-ray straight away." Meanwhile, Nintendo is taking shots at both companies, saying that the next-gen DVD format war is bad for consumers. Says Nintendo Canada's Pierre-Paul Trépanier: "I think forcing a decision on consumers would certainly not be part of Nintendo's strategy, because we want to get more people into gaming and we want to make it affordable. Forcing people to adopt a technology and a model that's proprietary and still not established is unfair to gamers."

Comments

Re:lets hope

[Anonymous Coward]

Wulfram 2 -- Free Online 3D game, Runs on a PII !

You know, after the release of the Wii, I will never look at the acronym for the Pentium II the same way again.

Re:lets hope

[AKAImBatman]

i could only find 5 Gamecube games that i liked and those where muti-system anyway

I wasn't aware that Star Fox, Mario Party, Smash Brothers, Mario Kart, and F-Zero had been ported?

You think that's bad...

[casualsax3]

... check out these head to head screenshot comparissons of RidgeRacer on the Xbox360 vs the PS3 :)

http://microsoftisawesome.blogspot.com/2006/11/ps3 -vs-xbox-360-screen-shots-update-2.html

Re:Yes, Blu-ray is a the next DVD

[GrayCalx]

Sony made DVD a standard and Blu-ray will, aside from an unprecedented problem occurring, be the new delivery media for high definition movies.

I definitely agree with you. In fact, so much so I'd like to subscribe to your podcast, could you ship me one on MiniDisc?

'presh.