Dave wrote:I'm surprised Nintendo only got 600k into stores during December, but looking at the launch window results, they definitely did a better job than MS or Sony.
I've seen PS3s everywhere over the past couple weeks. As you said Divot, a price cut can't be near for the system since they're losing so much money. IMO, Sony's going to lose 2007 to Nintendo and MS, which could lead to some tough decisions by the third parties.
Well obviously Nintendo took sales from both MS and Sony but we'll see if they can sustain the momentum. Not sure what the Wii release calendar is like but I've heard that most of the interesting games look to be first-party games, which would be a repeat of the GC.
PS3 is suppose to see a move to the 65 nm process this year. However, the PS3 for all Sony's problems (celebrated by many) still sold more in the first two months than the X360 and appear to be selling as well as the PS2.
PS3 will launch in Europe in March and some other territories. It should have some proven franchises releasing later this year as well as potentially good but new games releasing in spring and summer.
That's not to say PS3 is going to sell like the PS2 in its first year (especially at double the price). But there's no reason to cut the price yet. They could see if the EU launch helps and if the games help sell the system.
As for Carmack, he doesn't even like multicore CPUs, so he's probably not a big fan of the tricore CPU in the X360 either. I've never bought a single ID game and if I'm not mistaken, the console versions of Quake, Doom, etc. have never done anything. For every Carmack, there are at least a half-dozen other developers, used to console development, who have no problems with parallel and multi-core architectures.
In fact, get ready for this, the next generation of CPUs for consoles are more likely to resemble the Cell than the traditional architectures Carmack favors. Or else they will get left behind in performance.
) I had two rum and cokes while shooting rabbits with plungers, carrying pigs through minefields, slamming outhouse doors closed, and grooving to "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun." It's not what I planned to play at the outset of the evening but I've got to admit it was a pretty damn amusing few hours.