Agreed- Microsoft knows its software, just as Sony knows its hardware. What it comes down to is that Microsoft while having slightly less powerful hardware delivered an amazing environment for gaming (Xbox Live) years before Sony could provide even a close to similar experience, and they are still playing catch up.
Microsoft made a bet, by not including HD-DVD or Blu-Ray in the console and having slightly lesser specs, the software developers would be required to develop for the common denominator... meaning that all of the fancy hardware and storage space that Sony was relying on meant next to nothing on top of this Sony introduced a completely new architecture (the Cell processor) that simply couldn't just be ported between consoles, and was definitely not the norm in game development.
People calling Kinect a ripoff of the EyeToy are simply ignorant, it not only includes far better hardware, but Microsoft did what it does best in the software department and made its API work and work well. They made it easy for developers to get into it and get going fast, and to push out high quality titles that just work. I don't know of any person who has tried both that is able to say that the EyeToy provides an easier or more fun experience.
Exactly! They should stop calling it a car once they have to strap a jet engine to the back of it, that is until I see cars with jet engines driving down the highway while I am driving to work.
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Agreed- Microsoft knows its software, just as Sony knows its hardware. What it comes down to is that Microsoft while having slightly less powerful hardware delivered an amazing environment for gaming (Xbox Live) years before Sony could provide even a close to similar experience, and they are still playing catch up. Microsoft made a bet, by not including HD-DVD or Blu-Ray in the console and having slightly lesser specs, the software developers would be required to develop for the common denominator... meaning that all of the fancy hardware and storage space that Sony was relying on meant next to nothing on top of this Sony introduced a completely new architecture (the Cell processor) that simply couldn't just be ported between consoles, and was definitely not the norm in game development. People calling Kinect a ripoff of the EyeToy are simply ignorant, it not only includes far better hardware, but Microsoft did what it does best in the software department and made its API work and work well. They made it easy for developers to get into it and get going fast, and to push out high quality titles that just work. I don't know of any person who has tried both that is able to say that the EyeToy provides an easier or more fun experience.
Exactly! They should stop calling it a car once they have to strap a jet engine to the back of it, that is until I see cars with jet engines driving down the highway while I am driving to work.
....like someone has a patent on the internet.