Does Nintendo Need to Compete With Microsft and Sony?

Where it gets tricky for Nintendo is if, say six months from now it becomes clear that their device no longer delivers on it’s one crucial advantage — the motion control. Only then will they be in a situation where they may have to be prepared to see the demise of their system entirely. And if they’re not ready for it, things will not bode well for them going into the next generation of consoles. For now though, the virtual kick ball is in Sony and Microsoft’s court.

Friday Flashback — The Console War Bit Battles

In the videogame world of the 80s the battle for supremacy with the home console was vicious. The battles and victories could easily be segmented into the technology that enhanced each new system in the form of bits. For you youngsters out there, bits are part of the technospeak for the processing system — the higher the bit the better the processor. Back in those days each new console introduced a better processor thus improving the quality and gameplay of the games being developed. So of course console makers were trying to outdo each other with a better system which meant better games and for each subsequent upgrade in bits, came some folks ready to throw down.

E3 2009 News Day 2: Sony Shows Their Hand Full O Games

So how do you start a press conference that followed two Beatles and a controller free peripheral from Microsoft? Sony’s idea –  talk about the PS2! The $99 dollar/10-year old console is still selling and making Sony lots of money so of course they had to bring it up. That and the fact that they [...]