Nick Laslett
Regular
The dance of bluff and counter bluff between MS and Sony is mesmerising.
I'm sure that both camps have a very good idea, what each is upto, but we are in the middle on the receiving end of all the PR, hype and nonsense.
It is very exciting, but fraustrating at the same time. The snippets of news about dev kits, unveilings, NDAs. It is like being a cold war spy.
We must be in the vanguard of the news as it arrives, and we are the opinion formers that will shape how the battle unfolds on the forums around the web.
Sony are the encumbent, but MS have all the money. Whatever should happen, part of the fun of being a gamer is watching the technology transition.
Where I work, we have Nintendo fan who has already well rehearsed his speeches about interactivity and gameplay being key, minimising the damage of any technology shortcoming.
I'm sure as we know more, the arguments for and against things like CELL, motion sensors, wireless joypads, Blu-Ray and detachable Xpods will become as common to us as things like texture compression and video ram were to this generation.
My NDA disclosure:
Anyway, did you know that Sony are struggling to fab an 8 SPU Cell chip.
MS have only got a 2 core 80 gflop CPU in the Xbox360 and that the Revolutions motion sensor VR headset gives you brain cancer. (Just a little FUD)
I'm sure that both camps have a very good idea, what each is upto, but we are in the middle on the receiving end of all the PR, hype and nonsense.
It is very exciting, but fraustrating at the same time. The snippets of news about dev kits, unveilings, NDAs. It is like being a cold war spy.
We must be in the vanguard of the news as it arrives, and we are the opinion formers that will shape how the battle unfolds on the forums around the web.
Sony are the encumbent, but MS have all the money. Whatever should happen, part of the fun of being a gamer is watching the technology transition.
Where I work, we have Nintendo fan who has already well rehearsed his speeches about interactivity and gameplay being key, minimising the damage of any technology shortcoming.
I'm sure as we know more, the arguments for and against things like CELL, motion sensors, wireless joypads, Blu-Ray and detachable Xpods will become as common to us as things like texture compression and video ram were to this generation.
My NDA disclosure:
Anyway, did you know that Sony are struggling to fab an 8 SPU Cell chip.
MS have only got a 2 core 80 gflop CPU in the Xbox360 and that the Revolutions motion sensor VR headset gives you brain cancer. (Just a little FUD)
