Post by Renown on Oct 11, 2006 20:01:54 GMT -5
It's October and Fall is in full swing which means the goodies are just around the corner...Thanksgiving, Christmas you name it and it's just around corner waiting for someone to spot it. November will be a month to remember indeed. You've got Gears of War, a new force-feedback enabled version of PGR 3 hitting the shelves alongside the long-awaited force feedback X360 steering wheel, which was originally supposed to come alongside Forza 2, but we won't see that until next year.
It was around this same time last year that all of us who now proudly own an Xbox 360 were watching such commercials like, Call of Duty 2, Project Gotham Racing 3, Perfect Dark Zero...just to name a few. Well, it's that time again, but this time around we lie in wait for two new entries: Nintendo's Wii and Sony's Playstation 3, both of which promise to be innovative in one way or another without leaving you unsatisfied. Sony is laying down the law, or at least trying to with the promised 400,000 PS3's available at launch with some moderate if not tedious launch titles. Nintendo is also laying down their law by continuing to remain the cheaper of the three while not giving you less for you money.
Nintendo is relying on past experiences that we're familiar with which goes a little something like this: "It's not how much you pay to get what you want, it's what delivers that counts." Or something along those lines. Sony on the other hand continues to be the company who has the single most powerful console on the market, which means jackshit to be honest, they're relying on sequels to popular games to pave the way to success instead of taking a trip down originality boulevard, don't get me wrong, they're all doing it...it just seems like Sony wants to do it on a grander scale. It seems to me that there were no genuine killer-app this year at least so far...and with Sony putting everything on the line including their old grandmothers who knows what'll happen next.
Microsoft is really neglecting what could be their sure-fired acer with the HD-DVD by going on to say countless times that they don't intend for the HD-DVD player to be used for games. In spite of all of that, the 360 is up to a good start and will be interesting to see what they pull for the first birthday of the 360, maybe that black Xbox 360? A new peripheral of some kind? Eh, who knows? What I do now is I will be getting a Wii and I will be getting Gears of War (which comes out on a Sunday by the way, wtf?) and I will be waiting for what's to come.
It was around this same time last year that all of us who now proudly own an Xbox 360 were watching such commercials like, Call of Duty 2, Project Gotham Racing 3, Perfect Dark Zero...just to name a few. Well, it's that time again, but this time around we lie in wait for two new entries: Nintendo's Wii and Sony's Playstation 3, both of which promise to be innovative in one way or another without leaving you unsatisfied. Sony is laying down the law, or at least trying to with the promised 400,000 PS3's available at launch with some moderate if not tedious launch titles. Nintendo is also laying down their law by continuing to remain the cheaper of the three while not giving you less for you money.
Nintendo is relying on past experiences that we're familiar with which goes a little something like this: "It's not how much you pay to get what you want, it's what delivers that counts." Or something along those lines. Sony on the other hand continues to be the company who has the single most powerful console on the market, which means jackshit to be honest, they're relying on sequels to popular games to pave the way to success instead of taking a trip down originality boulevard, don't get me wrong, they're all doing it...it just seems like Sony wants to do it on a grander scale. It seems to me that there were no genuine killer-app this year at least so far...and with Sony putting everything on the line including their old grandmothers who knows what'll happen next.
Microsoft is really neglecting what could be their sure-fired acer with the HD-DVD by going on to say countless times that they don't intend for the HD-DVD player to be used for games. In spite of all of that, the 360 is up to a good start and will be interesting to see what they pull for the first birthday of the 360, maybe that black Xbox 360? A new peripheral of some kind? Eh, who knows? What I do now is I will be getting a Wii and I will be getting Gears of War (which comes out on a Sunday by the way, wtf?) and I will be waiting for what's to come.