Might be one thing if they were being released around about the same time, but I'm not thinking about this from the POV of the cashiers here. I'm considering the fact that parents will get the Xbox360 for their kids and then when birthdays come around or whatever, they will turn around to their drooling-for-newness kids and say, "No. You already have a console". As for geeks, yes, they love the newness, but fact remains that they want their newness NOWNOWNOW and aren't going to want to wait for the PS3 release to get it unless they can comprehensively prove that they've got better games. Think about the PS3 in the eyes of geeks right now; it's ugly as sin (and these things are supposed to sit in people's living rooms). And then there's the fact that, with the Sony zero tolerance policies on piracy, there's actually a question about whether pre-owned games will be playable on PS3. That includes rentals. This is shit.
As for the backwards compatibility issue, news is that Xbox360 is likely to have the same problem. And the games for both are likely to suck on the grounds that there's all this legislation and bad press about violent games. Things aren't looking all that good for the new consoles, 120 fps or not.
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Date: 2005-11-11 03:45 pm (UTC)As for the backwards compatibility issue, news is that Xbox360 is likely to have the same problem. And the games for both are likely to suck on the grounds that there's all this legislation and bad press about violent games. Things aren't looking all that good for the new consoles, 120 fps or not.