Xbox Live next Wednesday will have PS3 emulator for 150 points.
Dashboard update reveals that internal DVD is in fact a dual format HD-DVD and Blu-ray player.
Software patch causes a tiny explosion in the back of the Xbox revealing a HDMI port.
Software patch opens up hidden 300Gb partition on HardDisk.
IPTV and Windows Media Centre integration free for all.
Gears of War turns out to be evaluation edition put together ...
Microsoft have spent a fortune developing Vista but very little of the new architecture is of interest to the general public. Therefore they are going to have problems convincing people to switch. One way to get the 20million PC gamers to shift is to make the new wizzy DirectX 10 only available on Vista.
Writing for a new console is a steep learning curve and developers need help to get going. Providing high level APIs, frameworks, development environments and debugging tools make this less daunting. Games developers should be focused on writing the game, they should not be writing device drivers, sound libraries, graphics libraries from scratch all the time as this is inefficient and expensive. It is my understanding that Microsoft development suite is far ahead of that provided by Sony wh...
Sony is replacing the PS2 chip with an Xbox360 emulator so the console has a descent set of games.
Affordable consoles so last gen...
Decent upscaling support so last gen...
Large list of A+ games so last gen...
Marketing department with IQ greater than a dead slug so last gen...
Full previous generation suppoert so last gen...
A games console which is a console for games so last gen...
I own an Xbox360 and bought it on the day of launch. At the time there were not many games so I bought the Xbox games that worked such as Halo and Halo2. Although I got some initial enjoyment out of these I rapidly became bored of them as the real Xbox360 games came out so now they just sit on the shelf gathering dust. The problem is that they look crap compared to the real thing, they don't propertly integrate with Xbox live etc. So lack of BC is would not be a problem for me if I was buy...
While I agree that more movie studios have come out and backed Blu-Ray over HD-DVD this has not translated into more titles available for Blu-Ray. (Not on Amazon, HMV, Play or Ebay).
Amazon : 233 HD-DVD ( http://www.amazon.com/b/ref...
Amazon : 249 Blu-Ray
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However if the PS3 were to fail standards would drop as there would be no competition. We would be left with the same situation we have with Windows Vista which is ok but would be a lot better if Apple OS had more of an installed base.
1. High Definition DVD Players
Lack of marketing and confused media means very few people other than techies know anything about the format. Many people are buying large HD TVs without realizing that to make best use them they need a new set top boxes, new DVD players and new games consoles.
2. PlayStation 3
The huge installed base of PS2s will guarentee success for the PS3. However the price, lack of games and Sony's suicidal marketing of late d...
If you look at Google trends Blu-ray is just ahead of HD-DVD.
If you look compare Ebay auctions in the UK and USA they come out pretty equal.
If you look at the number of movies available on Amazon, PlayUsa, CDWOW the numbers are less than 5% apart.
So I would say its too early to name a winner. However I would appear that the interest is ramping up considerably at the moment. The number of Ebay auctions for high def DVDs is increasing by 15% a wee...
In the UK office I work in there are 17 XBox360, 3 PS3 and 2 WII. 3 of the Xbox360 have died and been replaced by Microsoft under warranty. My machined failed after 14 months but the warranty was extended because of the bad press microsoft received.
The new machine was delivered to me by UPS and I still have the broken one so I think I will experiment with the towel fix. I can only imaging the towel causes the Xbox to overheat possible restoring broken solder contacts on the...