Boston Globe throwing darts for next gen.

[KillerGremlin]

Well, Sony is already having bumps if you guys read my thread in the Sony forum about the blu-ray stuff. Regardless, who didn't expect this, Sony always has dominated.

I think I said this already, if I want to play baseball I'll go outside and get my real friends and play baseball. Or golf. Or whatever. The Wii is a cool idea, but people are either lazy or they're like me. Maybe in a generatin or two....

[Crash]

i can't golf when it's winter ... so... I think mario golf wii (it had better be a launch game, no chance) would rock.

Video games have never replaced real life, but allowed you to do things you couldn't normally do in real life: drive million dollar cars, shoot people on the street, sword fight with evil japanese...

Wii just brings a different way of interacting, that some can argue is more interactive than button pushing.


Sony isn't invincible, and sometimes popularity outweighs what common sense says should rule. The PSP is rediculously better than the DS, but the ds is outselling the psp like 8 to 1.

Sony beaten with:

betamax
micromv format
minidisk format
psp
not looking good for bluray

etc. People have put them so high on the video game pedistal, because of the lead they had last 2 generations, but I don't think it will last. They do make lots of mistakes...







AHEM no rumble... AHEM.

[KillerGremlin]

i can't see blu-ray falling victim to HD-DVD once they buff out the flaws

there's a lot of this "both medias have a place in the market" crap going around but in the end one format will rise, or people will just stick with regular DVDs.

i'm not disagreeing with you though, if there was ever a time to give a "o.O" look now is it. the other interesting thing to look at in terms of history is console success vs. price. seems like the super expensive consoles always lost to the competition.

this is the first generation where i'm far more concerned with the 3 console's flaws than high points. i won't buy anything at launch, if at all. i'm happy with my PC and Gamecube and Xbox and GBA.

[DarkMaster]

Originally Posted by Crash

The PSP is rediculously better than the DS, but the ds is outselling the psp like 8 to 1.

No it's not. In Japan the ratio is more like 4 or 5 DSs sold for every 1 PSP, but in North America the numbers are still very similar. Worldwide, total sales of the two handhelds are not significantly different.

[Dyne]

"And what about the cool controller? Echoing what Microsoft’s hardware production manager Rob Walker said at Gamefest earlier this week, Goodman told us that he and others who have played with the Wii controller for an extended period of time got tired and fatigued. While Goodman feels that the Wii controller is an impressive engineering achievement, he feels that gamers will get frustrated and tired of having to move their arms while, say, swinging a bat while playing Wii sports or throwing a football in the Wii port of Madden"

Yeah, **** that hour of fun you just had! You might as well write off the entire damn system because you're tired after an hour of one controller mode and too lazy to switch it in the options menu.