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So the console wars have begun, and as we all know it’s going to go on for quite a while yet. But what about the console wars of the next 2nd gen console? What kind of state will the games industry be in then? Well here is a hypothetical situation of what the console wars will be like in 2005 with all the new consoles on the market.
PS3
The Sony PS3 was the first of the 2nd next gen console to be released, and come equipped with the latest in processor technology. The PS3 takes full advantage of the 649bit ‘emotionless engine’, which is the nerve centre of the console. The chip has the ability to create awe-inspiring textures, lighting, and even capture emotionless emotions from the actual games. I have absolutely no idea what that means, but it sounds good doesn’t it.
The console has the usual set up which all consoles seem to have today. DVD, modem, hard drive, some fancy lights, a few circuit boards, a loud fan, lie detector, Beer can holder, foot warmer, an Ariel fixture to pick up pirate radio stations and maybe a few TV channels your not supposed to be watching, well not at that age young man. The usual stuff. The console also comes with the new duel shock 3 controller, which is basically a duel shock 2 and 1, but in a nicer colour.
Sony’s desperation to be the first console on the market was seen again on its newest consoles release. Many fans and enemies of the system are pointing out to Sony that the console was released far too early. The first batch of PS3 consoles came with no controller or memory card ports, no disc drive, no ports for the power cables to be put in, no fan, and was also half empty inside. Sony are adamant that this is how they planned the console to be released, and that the missing components will be out in a few weeks priced at around £100 each, so PS3 owners can then fit these parts and finally play on their brand new machine.
The list of games also seems to have suffered the same rushed feel. There are 50 games already available for the console, the top 5 are, Tekken tag 2, ridge racer 6, tomb raider: the lost ancient thing, Midnight club 2: The… (Title was never finished), and FIFA 2005 (using the 99 set-up). When asked how they came about to make the game, the head FIFA 2005 developer said ‘Yeah well Sony phoned me up yesterday and said we got a new console can you give us another footie game? It was a tight schedule, but I knew we could pull it off. So anyway to cut out the long development time, Dave came up with a great idea. We get an older FIFA game and stick this years date at the end. Genius that was, and we had enough time left over to get a few pints in’.
The PS3 is out now priced £399, with further expansions priced £100.
X-BOX2
This is Microsoft’s second attempt to try and break the console market. The machine come with a massive array of big sounding components, like the GeFarce 5: mega big GaphiX card, and yet another Pentium, this time a Pentium 9MXYZ processor. The console also come fully equipped with Bill Gates latest bug ridden software application Windows BS. This all means that the games on the machine are amazing to look at.
The designers of the machine haven’t seemed to of listened to comments about the design of the last console. The size of the x-box has tripled since its last outing, the reason for this as the lead designer explains, is that it carries a small nuclear generator to power the nice looking green light at the top of the machine. The controller has also increased in size, so much in fact that it has to be operated by two people. ‘We thought that it would be the perfect way to experience a two player co-operative gaming’ explained a smug looking Bill Gates.
To get ahead in the console market, Bill Gates has gone on a very expensive spending spree. BG recently bought the rights to hold the E3 expo in his very own back garden, from which he will only show x-box games, and only journalists from x-box related games magazines are allowed in. He has also bought out software company’s eidos, EA, Capcom, Infograms as well as many others, he has also bought a nuclear power plant to make the generators inside the x-box console itself. Put this together with the amount of money spent on advertising, and the round figure comes to $3Trillion. ‘We’re not expecting a profit until the year 3000ad’ explained the head of Microsoft’s marketing division.
The games line up is as follows, Halo3. ‘Halo is the bestest game in the world’ said a hardcore x-box fan ‘we don’t need any other game because this one rox!!!’ Although it has been confirmed that there is a bigger line up of games on their way, all converted from other consoles. It was also announced that if people are nice and buy the x-box, there ‘might’ be another original game released for the console. Here’s hoping.
X-Box is out now at a cost of £700, with games costing around the region of £69.99.
SUPER GAMECUBE
The new Nintendo SGC has just been released in a hail of publicity. The console comes with eleven controller ports, a 17.9000 bit micron ICBM CPU with a ton load of embedded memory, and a 128-big semi-digital surround sound processor. This console also now comes complete with a few things added which where missing from the last Gamecube, such as a DVD player, a hard drive and a few more games which don’t have Mario in them.
The size of the console has again been reduced, so as to make it even more portable than its predecessor. The SGC is about the same size as a small dice, the reason for this as Shigeru Miyamoto explains is, ‘we found that with the gamecube, despite its size was still not a portable as people would have liked. With this new sized console, gamers can take their gaming anywhere they want’. There are also a huge range of add-ons planned for the console including, a badge like attachment so you can pin the SGC on you clothes an take it anywhere you want, or a cover for the console which has the 6 sides of a dice painted on, just in case you lose your real dice from your favourite board game.
With the console the size it is, the actual CD’s also had to be reduced. Perhaps one of the most controversial moves in gaming, has seen the actual CD for the SGC replaced by a more technologically advanced format. Small mechanical ants have been made which can store up to 6000MB of data. These ant robots will carry the new Gamecube games; they have advanced A.I. so they know where they have to go and what they have to do. There have been rumours however of these ants attacking the Japanese owners of the SGC in an attempt to liberate they’re kind from the oppressive human species, which they see as obsolete. These rumours have yet to backed up with any evidence as of yet.
The range of games doesn’t seem to have changed a lot from any of Nintendo’s previous line-ups. Amongst the launch titles there are, Super Smashing Fantastic Mario (who enjoys his 900th appearance on a Nintendo game format,) Wave Racer: Blue Storm Super X2, Resident Evil 12, and Zelda: the retirement party edition. There are already a host of more Nintendo classics planned for the system.
Super Gamecube is out now priced at £10.99, with games costing about £50.
So there you have it. The great console wars of 2005 exposed. Now the question is ‘Which one should I get?’
PS3
The Sony PS3 was the first of the 2nd next gen console to be released, and come equipped with the latest in processor technology. The PS3 takes full advantage of the 649bit ‘emotionless engine’, which is the nerve centre of the console. The chip has the ability to create awe-inspiring textures, lighting, and even capture emotionless emotions from the actual games. I have absolutely no idea what that means, but it sounds good doesn’t it.
The console has the usual set up which all consoles seem to have today. DVD, modem, hard drive, some fancy lights, a few circuit boards, a loud fan, lie detector, Beer can holder, foot warmer, an Ariel fixture to pick up pirate radio stations and maybe a few TV channels your not supposed to be watching, well not at that age young man. The usual stuff. The console also comes with the new duel shock 3 controller, which is basically a duel shock 2 and 1, but in a nicer colour.
Sony’s desperation to be the first console on the market was seen again on its newest consoles release. Many fans and enemies of the system are pointing out to Sony that the console was released far too early. The first batch of PS3 consoles came with no controller or memory card ports, no disc drive, no ports for the power cables to be put in, no fan, and was also half empty inside. Sony are adamant that this is how they planned the console to be released, and that the missing components will be out in a few weeks priced at around £100 each, so PS3 owners can then fit these parts and finally play on their brand new machine.
The list of games also seems to have suffered the same rushed feel. There are 50 games already available for the console, the top 5 are, Tekken tag 2, ridge racer 6, tomb raider: the lost ancient thing, Midnight club 2: The… (Title was never finished), and FIFA 2005 (using the 99 set-up). When asked how they came about to make the game, the head FIFA 2005 developer said ‘Yeah well Sony phoned me up yesterday and said we got a new console can you give us another footie game? It was a tight schedule, but I knew we could pull it off. So anyway to cut out the long development time, Dave came up with a great idea. We get an older FIFA game and stick this years date at the end. Genius that was, and we had enough time left over to get a few pints in’.
The PS3 is out now priced £399, with further expansions priced £100.
X-BOX2
This is Microsoft’s second attempt to try and break the console market. The machine come with a massive array of big sounding components, like the GeFarce 5: mega big GaphiX card, and yet another Pentium, this time a Pentium 9MXYZ processor. The console also come fully equipped with Bill Gates latest bug ridden software application Windows BS. This all means that the games on the machine are amazing to look at.
The designers of the machine haven’t seemed to of listened to comments about the design of the last console. The size of the x-box has tripled since its last outing, the reason for this as the lead designer explains, is that it carries a small nuclear generator to power the nice looking green light at the top of the machine. The controller has also increased in size, so much in fact that it has to be operated by two people. ‘We thought that it would be the perfect way to experience a two player co-operative gaming’ explained a smug looking Bill Gates.
To get ahead in the console market, Bill Gates has gone on a very expensive spending spree. BG recently bought the rights to hold the E3 expo in his very own back garden, from which he will only show x-box games, and only journalists from x-box related games magazines are allowed in. He has also bought out software company’s eidos, EA, Capcom, Infograms as well as many others, he has also bought a nuclear power plant to make the generators inside the x-box console itself. Put this together with the amount of money spent on advertising, and the round figure comes to $3Trillion. ‘We’re not expecting a profit until the year 3000ad’ explained the head of Microsoft’s marketing division.
The games line up is as follows, Halo3. ‘Halo is the bestest game in the world’ said a hardcore x-box fan ‘we don’t need any other game because this one rox!!!’ Although it has been confirmed that there is a bigger line up of games on their way, all converted from other consoles. It was also announced that if people are nice and buy the x-box, there ‘might’ be another original game released for the console. Here’s hoping.
X-Box is out now at a cost of £700, with games costing around the region of £69.99.
SUPER GAMECUBE
The new Nintendo SGC has just been released in a hail of publicity. The console comes with eleven controller ports, a 17.9000 bit micron ICBM CPU with a ton load of embedded memory, and a 128-big semi-digital surround sound processor. This console also now comes complete with a few things added which where missing from the last Gamecube, such as a DVD player, a hard drive and a few more games which don’t have Mario in them.
The size of the console has again been reduced, so as to make it even more portable than its predecessor. The SGC is about the same size as a small dice, the reason for this as Shigeru Miyamoto explains is, ‘we found that with the gamecube, despite its size was still not a portable as people would have liked. With this new sized console, gamers can take their gaming anywhere they want’. There are also a huge range of add-ons planned for the console including, a badge like attachment so you can pin the SGC on you clothes an take it anywhere you want, or a cover for the console which has the 6 sides of a dice painted on, just in case you lose your real dice from your favourite board game.
With the console the size it is, the actual CD’s also had to be reduced. Perhaps one of the most controversial moves in gaming, has seen the actual CD for the SGC replaced by a more technologically advanced format. Small mechanical ants have been made which can store up to 6000MB of data. These ant robots will carry the new Gamecube games; they have advanced A.I. so they know where they have to go and what they have to do. There have been rumours however of these ants attacking the Japanese owners of the SGC in an attempt to liberate they’re kind from the oppressive human species, which they see as obsolete. These rumours have yet to backed up with any evidence as of yet.
The range of games doesn’t seem to have changed a lot from any of Nintendo’s previous line-ups. Amongst the launch titles there are, Super Smashing Fantastic Mario (who enjoys his 900th appearance on a Nintendo game format,) Wave Racer: Blue Storm Super X2, Resident Evil 12, and Zelda: the retirement party edition. There are already a host of more Nintendo classics planned for the system.
Super Gamecube is out now priced at £10.99, with games costing about £50.
So there you have it. The great console wars of 2005 exposed. Now the question is ‘Which one should I get?’
PS3
£500.00 for console plus one controller, games around £79.99.
Unfortunately, this flops due to the continuing popularity of the much more affordable, and still top of the market GameCube, and the fact that the UK is in recession.
Nintendo Game Dodecahedron
released in the summer of 2007, this blows the market away. £300 for console plus one controller - games aroun £50-60
Microsoft Y-Box
Plans for another MS console are put on hold after Microsoft breach the monopolies and mergers Act yet again, and is broekn down into it's component pieces, many of which are bought up by HP.
3 years later, Hewlett Packard unveil the Micro-Box (an intended pun on the company who drew up the original spec in the first place) and eat up what is left of the market after Nintendo have eaten it all and Sega stake an immense claim in the software market.
£500.00 for console plus one controller, games around £79.99.
Unfortunately, this flops due to the continuing popularity of the much more affordable, and still top of the market GameCube, and the fact that the UK is in recession.
Nintendo Game Dodecahedron
released in the summer of 2007, this blows the market away. £300 for console plus one controller - games aroun £50-60
Microsoft Y-Box
Plans for another MS console are put on hold after Microsoft breach the monopolies and mergers Act yet again, and is broekn down into it's component pieces, many of which are bought up by HP.
3 years later, Hewlett Packard unveil the Micro-Box (an intended pun on the company who drew up the original spec in the first place) and eat up what is left of the market after Nintendo have eaten it all and Sega stake an immense claim in the software market.
cipro wrote:
>
> Super Gamecube is out now priced at £10.99, with games costing
> about £50.
£10.99! Too expensive for me. I think the X-Box2 is in my price range...
>
> Super Gamecube is out now priced at £10.99, with games costing
> about £50.
£10.99! Too expensive for me. I think the X-Box2 is in my price range...
So the console wars have begun, and as we all know it’s going to go on for quite a while yet. But what about the console wars of the next 2nd gen console? What kind of state will the games industry be in then? Well here is a hypothetical situation of what the console wars will be like in 2005 with all the new consoles on the market.
PS3
The Sony PS3 was the first of the 2nd next gen console to be released, and come equipped with the latest in processor technology. The PS3 takes full advantage of the 649bit ‘emotionless engine’, which is the nerve centre of the console. The chip has the ability to create awe-inspiring textures, lighting, and even capture emotionless emotions from the actual games. I have absolutely no idea what that means, but it sounds good doesn’t it.
The console has the usual set up which all consoles seem to have today. DVD, modem, hard drive, some fancy lights, a few circuit boards, a loud fan, lie detector, Beer can holder, foot warmer, an Ariel fixture to pick up pirate radio stations and maybe a few TV channels your not supposed to be watching, well not at that age young man. The usual stuff. The console also comes with the new duel shock 3 controller, which is basically a duel shock 2 and 1, but in a nicer colour.
Sony’s desperation to be the first console on the market was seen again on its newest consoles release. Many fans and enemies of the system are pointing out to Sony that the console was released far too early. The first batch of PS3 consoles came with no controller or memory card ports, no disc drive, no ports for the power cables to be put in, no fan, and was also half empty inside. Sony are adamant that this is how they planned the console to be released, and that the missing components will be out in a few weeks priced at around £100 each, so PS3 owners can then fit these parts and finally play on their brand new machine.
The list of games also seems to have suffered the same rushed feel. There are 50 games already available for the console, the top 5 are, Tekken tag 2, ridge racer 6, tomb raider: the lost ancient thing, Midnight club 2: The… (Title was never finished), and FIFA 2005 (using the 99 set-up). When asked how they came about to make the game, the head FIFA 2005 developer said ‘Yeah well Sony phoned me up yesterday and said we got a new console can you give us another footie game? It was a tight schedule, but I knew we could pull it off. So anyway to cut out the long development time, Dave came up with a great idea. We get an older FIFA game and stick this years date at the end. Genius that was, and we had enough time left over to get a few pints in’.
The PS3 is out now priced £399, with further expansions priced £100.
X-BOX2
This is Microsoft’s second attempt to try and break the console market. The machine come with a massive array of big sounding components, like the GeFarce 5: mega big GaphiX card, and yet another Pentium, this time a Pentium 9MXYZ processor. The console also come fully equipped with Bill Gates latest bug ridden software application Windows BS. This all means that the games on the machine are amazing to look at.
The designers of the machine haven’t seemed to of listened to comments about the design of the last console. The size of the x-box has tripled since its last outing, the reason for this as the lead designer explains, is that it carries a small nuclear generator to power the nice looking green light at the top of the machine. The controller has also increased in size, so much in fact that it has to be operated by two people. ‘We thought that it would be the perfect way to experience a two player co-operative gaming’ explained a smug looking Bill Gates.
To get ahead in the console market, Bill Gates has gone on a very expensive spending spree. BG recently bought the rights to hold the E3 expo in his very own back garden, from which he will only show x-box games, and only journalists from x-box related games magazines are allowed in. He has also bought out software company’s eidos, EA, Capcom, Infograms as well as many others, he has also bought a nuclear power plant to make the generators inside the x-box console itself. Put this together with the amount of money spent on advertising, and the round figure comes to $3Trillion. ‘We’re not expecting a profit until the year 3000ad’ explained the head of Microsoft’s marketing division.
The games line up is as follows, Halo3. ‘Halo is the bestest game in the world’ said a hardcore x-box fan ‘we don’t need any other game because this one rox!!!’ Although it has been confirmed that there is a bigger line up of games on their way, all converted from other consoles. It was also announced that if people are nice and buy the x-box, there ‘might’ be another original game released for the console. Here’s hoping.
X-Box is out now at a cost of £700, with games costing around the region of £69.99.
SUPER GAMECUBE
The new Nintendo SGC has just been released in a hail of publicity. The console comes with eleven controller ports, a 17.9000 bit micron ICBM CPU with a ton load of embedded memory, and a 128-big semi-digital surround sound processor. This console also now comes complete with a few things added which where missing from the last Gamecube, such as a DVD player, a hard drive and a few more games which don’t have Mario in them.
The size of the console has again been reduced, so as to make it even more portable than its predecessor. The SGC is about the same size as a small dice, the reason for this as Shigeru Miyamoto explains is, ‘we found that with the gamecube, despite its size was still not a portable as people would have liked. With this new sized console, gamers can take their gaming anywhere they want’. There are also a huge range of add-ons planned for the console including, a badge like attachment so you can pin the SGC on you clothes an take it anywhere you want, or a cover for the console which has the 6 sides of a dice painted on, just in case you lose your real dice from your favourite board game.
With the console the size it is, the actual CD’s also had to be reduced. Perhaps one of the most controversial moves in gaming, has seen the actual CD for the SGC replaced by a more technologically advanced format. Small mechanical ants have been made which can store up to 6000MB of data. These ant robots will carry the new Gamecube games; they have advanced A.I. so they know where they have to go and what they have to do. There have been rumours however of these ants attacking the Japanese owners of the SGC in an attempt to liberate they’re kind from the oppressive human species, which they see as obsolete. These rumours have yet to backed up with any evidence as of yet.
The range of games doesn’t seem to have changed a lot from any of Nintendo’s previous line-ups. Amongst the launch titles there are, Super Smashing Fantastic Mario (who enjoys his 900th appearance on a Nintendo game format,) Wave Racer: Blue Storm Super X2, Resident Evil 12, and Zelda: the retirement party edition. There are already a host of more Nintendo classics planned for the system.
Super Gamecube is out now priced at £10.99, with games costing about £50.
So there you have it. The great console wars of 2005 exposed. Now the question is ‘Which one should I get?’
PS3
The Sony PS3 was the first of the 2nd next gen console to be released, and come equipped with the latest in processor technology. The PS3 takes full advantage of the 649bit ‘emotionless engine’, which is the nerve centre of the console. The chip has the ability to create awe-inspiring textures, lighting, and even capture emotionless emotions from the actual games. I have absolutely no idea what that means, but it sounds good doesn’t it.
The console has the usual set up which all consoles seem to have today. DVD, modem, hard drive, some fancy lights, a few circuit boards, a loud fan, lie detector, Beer can holder, foot warmer, an Ariel fixture to pick up pirate radio stations and maybe a few TV channels your not supposed to be watching, well not at that age young man. The usual stuff. The console also comes with the new duel shock 3 controller, which is basically a duel shock 2 and 1, but in a nicer colour.
Sony’s desperation to be the first console on the market was seen again on its newest consoles release. Many fans and enemies of the system are pointing out to Sony that the console was released far too early. The first batch of PS3 consoles came with no controller or memory card ports, no disc drive, no ports for the power cables to be put in, no fan, and was also half empty inside. Sony are adamant that this is how they planned the console to be released, and that the missing components will be out in a few weeks priced at around £100 each, so PS3 owners can then fit these parts and finally play on their brand new machine.
The list of games also seems to have suffered the same rushed feel. There are 50 games already available for the console, the top 5 are, Tekken tag 2, ridge racer 6, tomb raider: the lost ancient thing, Midnight club 2: The… (Title was never finished), and FIFA 2005 (using the 99 set-up). When asked how they came about to make the game, the head FIFA 2005 developer said ‘Yeah well Sony phoned me up yesterday and said we got a new console can you give us another footie game? It was a tight schedule, but I knew we could pull it off. So anyway to cut out the long development time, Dave came up with a great idea. We get an older FIFA game and stick this years date at the end. Genius that was, and we had enough time left over to get a few pints in’.
The PS3 is out now priced £399, with further expansions priced £100.
X-BOX2
This is Microsoft’s second attempt to try and break the console market. The machine come with a massive array of big sounding components, like the GeFarce 5: mega big GaphiX card, and yet another Pentium, this time a Pentium 9MXYZ processor. The console also come fully equipped with Bill Gates latest bug ridden software application Windows BS. This all means that the games on the machine are amazing to look at.
The designers of the machine haven’t seemed to of listened to comments about the design of the last console. The size of the x-box has tripled since its last outing, the reason for this as the lead designer explains, is that it carries a small nuclear generator to power the nice looking green light at the top of the machine. The controller has also increased in size, so much in fact that it has to be operated by two people. ‘We thought that it would be the perfect way to experience a two player co-operative gaming’ explained a smug looking Bill Gates.
To get ahead in the console market, Bill Gates has gone on a very expensive spending spree. BG recently bought the rights to hold the E3 expo in his very own back garden, from which he will only show x-box games, and only journalists from x-box related games magazines are allowed in. He has also bought out software company’s eidos, EA, Capcom, Infograms as well as many others, he has also bought a nuclear power plant to make the generators inside the x-box console itself. Put this together with the amount of money spent on advertising, and the round figure comes to $3Trillion. ‘We’re not expecting a profit until the year 3000ad’ explained the head of Microsoft’s marketing division.
The games line up is as follows, Halo3. ‘Halo is the bestest game in the world’ said a hardcore x-box fan ‘we don’t need any other game because this one rox!!!’ Although it has been confirmed that there is a bigger line up of games on their way, all converted from other consoles. It was also announced that if people are nice and buy the x-box, there ‘might’ be another original game released for the console. Here’s hoping.
X-Box is out now at a cost of £700, with games costing around the region of £69.99.
SUPER GAMECUBE
The new Nintendo SGC has just been released in a hail of publicity. The console comes with eleven controller ports, a 17.9000 bit micron ICBM CPU with a ton load of embedded memory, and a 128-big semi-digital surround sound processor. This console also now comes complete with a few things added which where missing from the last Gamecube, such as a DVD player, a hard drive and a few more games which don’t have Mario in them.
The size of the console has again been reduced, so as to make it even more portable than its predecessor. The SGC is about the same size as a small dice, the reason for this as Shigeru Miyamoto explains is, ‘we found that with the gamecube, despite its size was still not a portable as people would have liked. With this new sized console, gamers can take their gaming anywhere they want’. There are also a huge range of add-ons planned for the console including, a badge like attachment so you can pin the SGC on you clothes an take it anywhere you want, or a cover for the console which has the 6 sides of a dice painted on, just in case you lose your real dice from your favourite board game.
With the console the size it is, the actual CD’s also had to be reduced. Perhaps one of the most controversial moves in gaming, has seen the actual CD for the SGC replaced by a more technologically advanced format. Small mechanical ants have been made which can store up to 6000MB of data. These ant robots will carry the new Gamecube games; they have advanced A.I. so they know where they have to go and what they have to do. There have been rumours however of these ants attacking the Japanese owners of the SGC in an attempt to liberate they’re kind from the oppressive human species, which they see as obsolete. These rumours have yet to backed up with any evidence as of yet.
The range of games doesn’t seem to have changed a lot from any of Nintendo’s previous line-ups. Amongst the launch titles there are, Super Smashing Fantastic Mario (who enjoys his 900th appearance on a Nintendo game format,) Wave Racer: Blue Storm Super X2, Resident Evil 12, and Zelda: the retirement party edition. There are already a host of more Nintendo classics planned for the system.
Super Gamecube is out now priced at £10.99, with games costing about £50.
So there you have it. The great console wars of 2005 exposed. Now the question is ‘Which one should I get?’