It’s been a heavy round for the console wars this week.
For years the guys at Xbox made a sport of slapping Sony around in the press, winning the game at mindshare if not
marketshare while Sony famously stayed inside a silent walled garden.
Well all that’s changed, much to the relief of PlayStation fanboys everywhere. At the reformed E3 conference this week in Santa Monica, CA, Sony’s US boss, Peter Dille, turns the schaudenfraude tables on the boys from Redmond.
“They’ve never made a dime in this business,” declared Dille in an interview with Gamasutra as he proposes that Xbox 360 will be out of business in a matter of months.
Meanwhile, the Wii remains out in front, if hard to find. But many core gamers view the Wii as a fad, with the powerful processor and next-gen DVD capability being the features that will win the digital living room over the course of time.
The Xbox 360 seemingly had the jump in that category, launching a year ahead of the PS3 and throwing pies in Sony’s face. Yet, Sony has made some aggressive moves of late, dropping it’s 20 GB edition and most recently lowering the price of it’s 60 GB machine by $100. All this as Xbox 360’s have stopped working.
Xbox countered at E3 with the announcement of a special Halo 3 edition console to arrive in time for the launch of the September 25 launch of the third sequel of the game that saved the original Xbox. But as with the introduction of their “Elite” edition, everyone is wondering where the next-gen DVD player is. Sony has stood fast and hard behind it’s Blu Ray players and multi-core Cell Processor, and if their 10-year long view of the console cycle plays out, the PS3 may prove to be the winner after all.
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