Archive for March, 2007

Next Gen Wars – Who Will Win? Part 3 of 4

Saturday, March 3rd, 2007

Okay, we’ve covered the Wii and Xbox 360, now it’s the PS3’s turn, while I have personal experience with the Xbox, the PS3 isn’t even available here yet, so I cannot gauge how it’s doing, but just looking around local stores and online game stores I notice that the PS3 is still available for pre-order after 2 weeks, either Sony has got a serious amount of consoles available, or pre-orders are slower than Sony anticipated, but enough of the anecdotal stuff, onto the serious part.

Why it might win

  • Playstation
  • Great Games
  • HD Graphics

Why it might lose

  • Price
  • Sony
  • Blu-ray

Click for the analysis

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Next Gen Wars – Who Will Win? Part 2 of 4

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

Okay, the next part, while I’m at it, last time we looked at the Wii, giving three reason why it might win or lose, now we’ll move onto the Xbox 360, it’s a different beast to the Wii, more expensive, way more powerful, and conciderable larger.

Why it might win

  • HD Graphics
  • 1 year head-start
  • Xbox Live

Why it might lose

  • Microsoft
  • Reliability
  • Japan

Continue reading for the lowdown.

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Next Gen Wars – Who Will Win? Part 1 of 4

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

I’ve thought long and hard about this and have decided to write my ideas down in a series of blog entries, the first 3 parts are going to give the reasons why and why not for each console (Wii,Xbox 360 and PS3), three for each for each console, I may have my own personal bias, but I’m trying to be fair here so each console will get 3 points in each and I wont hold back where I think something was wrong (as you’ll see in this one).

Note: Out of the three consoles presented here I only own 1 of them, the Xbox 360, one isn’t out in my country yet (PS3) and I haven’t got the cash or even found a Wii. I do however own all 4 of last generations (I’m counting the Dreamcast in the last Gen, though it was too early to really be concidered) and envision owning all 3 of this generations consoles.

We start with the Nintendo Wii.

Why it might Win

  • Nintendo
  • Price
  • Waggle

Why it might lose

  • Novelty
  • No HD
  • 3rd Party

Read the rest for more explanation.
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No Dream, Build, Play, but a new Job

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

It seems that all that effort and lost days that stopped me from entering the Dream, Build, Play warmup contest have actually paid off, since I got the job I was going for the interview for. I start work on the 12th of March, which means that between now and then I have to pack up everything in my little flat and prepare to move back down to England. Oh well, since part two hasn’t been announced yet, and since I don’t know if I’d be eligable to enter now (back working in the Games Industry again) it’s probably best if I concentrate on my impending move.