Smoke and Mirrors from Sony and Microsoft

An anonymous reader writes "History tells us: Don't believe what you're hearing about the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3.There was a lot of hype last week about the next generation of game machines. Microsoft said the Xbox 360 will ultimately reach 1 billion consumers worldwide, while Sony gave a laundry list of features for the PlayStation 3, showing some jaw dropping footage along the way. (Nintendo promised a Revolution, but didn't go much further than that.) I hate to be a wet blanket, but it's time to come back to reality."

Reality?

[Oculus Habent]

Since when does reality have anything to do [penny-arcade.com] with videogames?

Re:Back to life

[NanoGator]

"Back to reality"

Dwayne Dibbly? Oh thanks for reminding me!

Re:Santa Clause

[peculiarmethod]

I know Santa Clause isn't real, but it's still fun to get excited about x-mas.

This is Slashdot, my friend.. the higher up the UID's go, the more likely there are lots of pre-teens and teens.. many of which require you to preface your comment with *SPOILER*. Poor kids.

Re:Can get better later

[Scrameustache]

I usually remembered some fantastic games coming near the end of the lifecycle, like Earthworm Jim 2 for the SNES

OMG yes... the level where you're dressed as an albino weasel and you're swimming in a giant colon while Beethoven's Moonlight Sonatta plays as the level music...

I don't know what these guys were smoking, but they should share : )

Re:Hype, Hype, and More Hype

[joib]

...the next best thing since loosing my virginity...


Sorry, you just lost the /. crowd. Please compare to something we can relate to.

Re:Can get better later

[flyingsquid]

I have a gas with Nethack, which, at best in an X environment has some nice little graphics to replace alphanumeric characters. I still play Super Mario World on a SNES emulator because it's still a really fun game.

yeah, but IMAGINE Nethack on a PS3 or Xbox360!

Instead of being restricted to ASCII, you could use their massive processing and graphics abilities to employ other characters- Greek, Cyrillic, Chinese, Arabic, Linear B, Egyptian heiroglyphs, cuneiform... plus different fonts, italics, bold, all crisp and anti-aliased... imagine that instead of a puny little "@" you're now an upper-case italic omicron in Times New Roman, dealing out death as hordes of Copperplate Gothic Boldface "Ü"s and Comic Sans "Ñ"s fly at you from all directions! That would just totally ROCK!!!

Re:Exception that proves the rule:

[dmaxwell]

It took me 20 years to get that song out of my head.

I can see that your efforts have paid off.

Re:Can get better later

[DrSkwid]

The step from Super Mario Brothers 1 to 3 is, in fact, two quantum leaps.

1 - 2 - 3

Perhaps you meant "dramatic improvement". A quantum leap is a value changing from one value to another without any intervening values. Turning on a light via a switch is a quantum leap, turning up the dimmer isn't (on human scale).

Re:Can get better later

[hesiod]

> You can't go around assuming that everyone knows what games are available for what consoles.

If you are in a thread about the next generation of that specific console, and you decide to start posting, WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE TO ASSUME. He assumed that these people knew, BECAUSE THEY WERE WRITING FUCKING POSTS ABOUT IT, YOU MORON!

> if you're going to state hardware specs, state the facts.

He did state the facts, those facts included a typo. GET OVER IT.