May 8 2006 will forever be remembered as the Xbox 360 Vindication Day. This is the day when Sony shocked the world by disappointing their fans, when it turned out that their very expensive game console was really no more powerful than the Xbox 360.
On May 8, 2006, it turned out that Xbox 360 gamers had a next-generation system after all. For an entire year, the gaming press and misinformed gamers berated the 360 for the lack of CG quality visuals; not realizing that such powerful technology can't really be stuffed into a sub-$500 box with only 512MB of RAM. Microsoft and their fans had to endure ridicule upon ridicule over the slightest jaggy or the slightest drop in framerate, all simply because the juggernaut that was the Playstation 3 was at hand. Ironic, then that it turned out that the Playstation 3 would have the same problems, and would be far worse off in many cases. A more expensive game machine being LESS POWERFUL, LESS COMPELLING, and LESS INNOVATIVE THAN THE COMPETITION? Unbelievable.
On May 8, 2006 the very limits of what the press has been arguing over for months and months---"What is next gen?"---finally gain realistic boundaries, and the dreams of many a Sony fanboy are shot down in one fell swoop.
Overnight, Sony's Playstation 3 turned from the ultimate gaming system ever fashioned by man, into a hodge podge of machinery meant to forward a company's agenda to spread a new media format. On this day, every media person that called the KILLZONE 2 TRAILER real-time had their credibility destroyed in a single instant.
May 8, 2006. We will never forget!
http://www.wii60.com
http://www.gameklip.com/v/719/
On May 8, 2006, it turned out that Xbox 360 gamers had a next-generation system after all. For an entire year, the gaming press and misinformed gamers berated the 360 for the lack of CG quality visuals; not realizing that such powerful technology can't really be stuffed into a sub-$500 box with only 512MB of RAM. Microsoft and their fans had to endure ridicule upon ridicule over the slightest jaggy or the slightest drop in framerate, all simply because the juggernaut that was the Playstation 3 was at hand. Ironic, then that it turned out that the Playstation 3 would have the same problems, and would be far worse off in many cases. A more expensive game machine being LESS POWERFUL, LESS COMPELLING, and LESS INNOVATIVE THAN THE COMPETITION? Unbelievable.
On May 8, 2006 the very limits of what the press has been arguing over for months and months---"What is next gen?"---finally gain realistic boundaries, and the dreams of many a Sony fanboy are shot down in one fell swoop.
Overnight, Sony's Playstation 3 turned from the ultimate gaming system ever fashioned by man, into a hodge podge of machinery meant to forward a company's agenda to spread a new media format. On this day, every media person that called the KILLZONE 2 TRAILER real-time had their credibility destroyed in a single instant.
May 8, 2006. We will never forget!
http://www.wii60.com
http://www.gameklip.com/v/719/