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The Console Wars

By Roel Cisneros

So far this past year the console wars were fought. And, who was left standing between the two companies that had put out new systems. Nintendo came out shining even though the Wii is actually, if you look at it from the technical aspect is a customized game cube. This shows that it is not always what is under the hood that counts. It is how it runs.

And, the Wii runs great even for it having some people have called a gimmicky controller. Which, is by far a very innovative idea in game interaction. And, being able to play game cube games makes backward compatibility a possibility. Of course Sony’s PS3 is backward compatible with it previous PS2 games, they needed to release a patch that would make the compatibility issue a problem of the past.

Even though It is late in the game they made up for the pixel degradation that was happening with some of their games i.e. final fantasy ten. Now the PS3 Is a phenomenal machine and I don’t believe anything out there can come close to its processing power.   And not mention that the PS3 has Blu-ray which offer the next-gen capabilities.  The graphical power it can render is alos of HD standards.  This meaning that the system can and does support 1080p.  Which is the highest resolution available.  Blu-ray discs are able to store up to 9 gigs of data.  This allowing Sony to come up with titles that will in terms of deail be much bigger and richer.  Blu-ray also supports 7.1 surround sound.  Even though these points make a valid and stong point in Sony’s defense of their system it does not change that Sony should of realized that if they were only able to produce 600,000 units for the U.S. alone. That they should of spent more time on the R&D of the system.

Now Nintendo was able to foresee this issue and they made more than enough for their launch date. As we have read in other articles they were able to sell 600,000 units only eight days after release here in the states. Not to mention that they in only two days after the launch in Europe they were able to sell 400,000 units as well as Japan’s 325,000 in the first day. Don’t get me wrong I don’t like making a lot of negative points on the PS3.

But, I call them like I see them and from what I have seen so far Sony should of taken the time to actually finish their product 100% and not sending out units that were coming out with issues on day one. Some of the units have even been reported of being bricks right out of the box. Now if they would have had these issues handled before launch and if they launched with all of these issues resolved.

Sony would of and I believe this greatly would have come out not only on top but would have taken the console wars to a new level.

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