Interesting pair of articles on 360 vs PS3

[cheshirenoir]

Charlie Demerjian has written an interesting pair of articles over on The Inquirer.

They're a review of the relative paths of Sony and Microsoft vis-a-vis their consoles and the expected life cycle.

Before you Pooh Pooh them as "Just Another Sony Hata", may I point out that Charlie has a phenomenal number of industry insider contacts. He really knows the IT biz. He is sometimes wrong, but not often. There is a joke that HP and Intel staff were more often than not finding out about various insider projects and changes from Charlie rather than from any official channel.

The articles are Here and Here

(BTW, I kind of hope he is wrong. I may not want a PS3 but I want the competition that drives the industry)

Comments

[angriest.livejournal.com]

Sony desperately need killer aps if they want to survive. At the moment they're pushing what is essentially the Saturn of the contemporary games market.

[discordia13.livejournal.com]

Good articles. Sony has also gone quiet in a number of other areas they are normally quite noticeable in. When was the last time you saw a major Sony multimedia add campaign for anything other than a playstayshun?

I do not want a 360 or a PS3, honestly i'de probably buy a Wii before either of those two.

[decrypt-era.livejournal.com]

Yr last comment, i do not get.
These articles show why capitalist style competition
actually fucks up any product in any industry.
Those articles had almost nothin to do with th machines
and everything to do with money.
This is why M$ is winning on dirty tricks n propaganda,
while Sony, still def a big bastard corporation (eg: rootkit/DRM bollocks),
but willing to develop a decent architecture,
is gettin a hosing.

Allow me to clarify:
while th competition is for profit,
th product suffers, stands to reason.
Consumers need to wise up, ignore th hype,
and make th competition all about product,
ie: stop being consumers and become co-creators.

Is this going to happen any time soon?
Sad to say, i guess not.
We'l proly hafta wait for
th whole cancerous fuckd-up system to fall over in a steaming heap
before we see open-source style being applied to everyday physical products.
We'l proly hafta start with food & water (& possibly shotgun shells).