There is much talk these days of the modren hoopla involving the next generation consoles. Microsoft and Sony have both announced that their next gen systems will include High Definition as one of the key new features, while Nintendo has stated that it will pass up on the High Def for now and go with a more innovative system instead. Nintendo has brought innovation throughout their term as leader in the video game world.
I constantly see people and hear people say, “Nintendo isn’t even offering HD in the Revolution, what’s up with that?”
What’s up with that, is that while Microsoft and Sony spend their time trying to trump each other with their HD and other technologies, Nintendo is creating new technology that will “Revolutionize” the way that we play games today. It will be much easier for Nintendo to solicit companies to help them make their next console (the one after the Revolution) be HD compliant and up to times with the technology than it will be for Microsoft and Sony to find a company to help them to get creative.
Eventually, I see all gaming consoles going in the same direction, high end technology, with first rate creative input and output. Microsoft and Sony seem to be taking the easy road, by updating their consoles to the more advanced technologies during this generation, while Nintendo takes the harder road by knocking the creativity factor out first.
Over the next 18 months the 3 giants of the Games Console world will be battling it out in stores and homes across Europe, America and Asia for the title of the world greatest Games Console. The stakes are high in this multi billion dollar business, not just for the console sales but for the games sales that go along side it.
Since the launch announcements of all 3 consoles in May at the E3 conference in LA. Each Press release has been hotly followed by another press release from a rival company so much so that extracting the facts from all the hype has been nearly impossible. At the launch press conferences Microsoft boasted that the Xbox 360 could do 9-billion-dot-product-operations per second.
Sony then came out and said that the PS3 could do 51-billion-dot-product-operations per second however Sony had combined the CPU and GPU performance numbers whilst Microsoft only reported its CPU performance number. Despite all the press releases and information that has been spewing out of the headquarters of Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo we actually know very few facts. Why 2 prices? The final console to hit the shelves will be the Nintendo Revolution some time late in 2006 and 2007.
One fact is certain, If Microsoft do get the Xbox 360 onto the shelves before Christmas it will be this year’s biggest selling Christmas gift. (battery pack psp)
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