thewiire.com — GamePro sat down with Sony Computer Entertainment executive Phil Harrison at E3 earlier this week, where he re-iterated a sentiment made by Microsoft's Corporate Vice President of Interactive Entertainment Peter Moore, where he said that buyers of of a next-generation console should also buy Nintendo's Wii system.
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generalsunMay 14, 2006
Not even then, because both would probably come to the PC a few months later.
blah_blah_blahMay 15, 2006
my router was sub 100 bucks... wireless g400 bucks? what kinda router is that?
Closed AccountMay 15, 2006
Is it just me or are Sony and Microsoft competing to ride on the coattails of Nintendo's recent surge in popularity?
elnerdoMay 15, 2006
Microsoft is planning on crushing Sony as quickly as possible. They don't care if they help Nintendo in the process. Once Sony is out of the way, then they'll focus on Nintendo. I for one and afraid that Sony may be crushed, and I think that it would be a terrible thing to happen to the selection of consoles. Having three competitors is absolutely perfect, once Sony is gone, Nintendo will simply retreat to its own 'general gamer' niche, and Microsoft will take the hardcore gamer niche while slowly encroaching on Nintendo until Nintendo is gone. Once that finally happens, you will never, ever see ANY more innovation in consoles.
mage1129May 15, 2006
I think microsoft and sony are really looking at their next gens as a way to establish their Hi Def tech as the official tech. And the people are caught in the middle are going to be the entertainment consumers. Pound for pound we see that nintendo is the lightweight in this competition, but while Microsoft and Sony bettle nintendo will carve a nice little niche for itself and may even be able to get itself back on top. Playstation and Xbox are just glorified gaming only computers, while the Wii is like owning your own arcarde becuase it focused not on the power but on substance. The only problem Nintendo has is that as a company it is a one trick pony and has to rely on consumer friendly strategies like this because Nintendo is not a branch of a multi-billion dollar tech giant.When is comes down to I am going to get Wii and wait for an official HD tech to emerge before I begin to blow my Benjamins. A let all the other schmucks dole out the cash while I sit and have fun with my Wii, in all reality I can barely keep up with my video games as it is, I am not going to waste money on a system I won't have time for after Wii.
happyscrappyMay 15, 2006
millixaw:You're wrong. I don't know where you get those ideas, but you're wrong about them. I note you don't even try to support them.Here's a link:<a class="user" href="http://www.proactionmedia.com/dvd_replication.htm">http://www.proactionmedia.com/dvd_replication.htm</a>$0.69 a disc for DVD Dual layer replication. Make more than 25,000 or use a bigger house and the price goes down even more.How you get "quite expensive" from $0.69, I dunno.BD-ROMs are made like DVD-ROMs. You make a glass master and them stamp them out. You need to be more accurate any my understanding is yields are low. But you only need single layer, and even if you have to throw a few discs away at $0.20 a piece (before silkscreening) to get one good one, it just doesn't add up. It might raise the disc cost to $1 or $2. The package and manual for a game cost that much.Games are priced by the cost of the content, not the cost of the media.
hamstereaterMay 15, 2006
i guess for me it may just come down to whether i would want the playstation's exclusive games or the 360's :(