Sony are refusing to admit the failure of their proprietary Universal Media Disc (UMD) format. The discs hold games and movies for the Playstation Portable console.
PS3 players had the chance to experience all the joys of a Windows PC with the release of recent headliner “Assassin’s Creed”. The game features stealth, murder, and console-crashing freezes.
Amazon.com are stopping just short of offering gamers winning Lotto tickets, but are offering the closest thing to console-buying heaven with systems at significantly less than half price. It’s the Amazon Customer Survey, and it’ll be interesting to see if their site survives the inevitable rush.
In news that Sony executives have been praying nightly for, the PS3 outsold the Wii in Japan from Nov 5th-11th. Even better for the beleaguered console, it wasn’t the result of price cuts or satanic rituals, but an honest to goodness game people wanted to play.
Microsoft are taking a page from Nintendo’s very popular Virtual Console book, with an upcoming Xbox update set to allow full original Xbox titles to be downloaded from Xbox Live. These titles are expect to cost ~ $15 (1200 Microsoft Points).
Getting a game into the top ten for any system is great news. Getting all ten is an achievement. Getting all ten with different variations on a single first-party character is a sign of a serious lack of support.
Sony CEO Howard Stringer admitted that their Blu-Ray format is in a ’stalemate’ with Microsoft endorsed HD-DVD. And when a company as psychopathically unable to admit defeat as "I’ll give you $2000 for any PS3 you find on the shelves" Sony confesses to a draw, the reality must make a cruise on the Titanic look like a success story.
Dust is a fact of life for the modern gamer. Either something you work against to keep your entertainment center sparkling or, more likely, a choking hazard whenever you’re forced to dive into the tangled snakes nest of cabling that lurks behind your system.
Microsoft have unveiled a new update to the XBox 360 to protect those most innocent and precious of things (profits) against the evils of modern technology (media scaremongering).
The vaunted PS3 firmware update goes online tomorrow, and saying it’s a disappointment would be like saying a tin opener would make a very poor Terminator.
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