Game Industry Folks Siding With the Wii 432
Gamasutra's semi-regular feature taking the pulse of folks in the game industry turns its attention this week to the PS3 and Wii launches. From the comments submitted to the site, it seems that many industry vets are generally more excited about the Wii than with Sony's offering. From the article: "'Definitely a Wii (already pwii-ordered). The price point of the PS3 and the lack of enticing launch titles makes me as interested in a PS3 as I am interested in getting a root canal.' — Ryan Conlon, Gearbox Software. 'I am buying a Wii because Sony is too arrogant, from their dev tools to the price point.' — Ed O'Tey, Electronic Arts. 'Wii — pre-ordered. I applaud the attempt to expand and explore game interaction with the Wii. I will not be purchasing a PS3.' — Jim Perkins, EA Canada"
Poor Sony (Score:3, Informative)
Ironically enough... (Score:5, Informative)
Show the gamers a game that makes good use of HD-DVD or Blu-Ray and they may buy some of the hype. Until then, all glory to Nintendo.
Re:Ironically enough... (Score:3, Informative)
360 isn't forcing a new standard on anyone. You can get an HD-DVD if you so choose, but it won't be required for games - it just saves you some space and money if you areally are interested in HD-DVD.
Nintendo, on the other hand, doesn't offer you so much as a DVD player along with the Wii - they are stricter than the other guys in terms of forcing a standard with a format exclusive to them and them alone.
Re:Ironically enough... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Poor Sony (Score:5, Informative)
Sony's recent financials [sony.net] show that Sony Pictures, Sony Games, and Sony Financial Services have been sharing the load -- and the games division has been responsible for less than 1/3 the operating income the last two years, and slightly over 1/3 in 2004. For 2006, Sony Financial Services dominates their operating income.
Re:Poor Sony (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.the-magicbox.com/topten.htm [the-magicbox.com]
of course DS sales (and presumably the wii) > ps3 + xbox360
Re:Wii Campers? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Yes (Score:3, Informative)
I'm guessing you haven't heard of the "bootloader" in terms of removing copy protection? They even use them on some of the best smartcard technology out there so it'd be quite the challenge to get this to remain a viable option.
Re:Well maybe it is. (Score:3, Informative)
I work in computer graphics and true high definition scares the crap out of me and my current workstation.
Shaun
Re:It's not a war, the Wii is not a side (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Yes (Score:5, Informative)
Then, of course, there is memory bandwidth. The Cell has one memory bus to serve eight cores. In addition, local memory bandwidth for read in the Cell is 16MB/s, from Sony's own slides. Thus Sony recommends (on the next slide) to not read from local memory, but to write out to main memory and read from that. So eight cores are going to be constantly contending for the main memory bus. That is a horrible situation in hardware if I've ever seen one.
Re:Yes (Score:4, Informative)