Playstation3 defeats XBox 360? C'mon! As if the console wars weren't heated already, I just received an email "claiming" the Playstation3 "has taken a surprising leap over the XBox 360". I don't know what they're smoking, but all the news lately is mostly about the XBox 360. Neither the Playstation3 or the Xbox 360 are in the market yet and already the PR spin has begun. If I had to guess, XBox 360 will overtake Sony Playstation3 in consoles sold and the balance of power will once again shift. First it was Atari, then Nintendo, then Sony, and now Microsoft will become the dominant game console manufacturer. That's not a prediction - that's a fact. It doesn't matter who has better benchmarks - the XBox 360 is adding some cool integrated applications that the Sony Playstation3 just does not have. Microsoft has steadily been signing exclusive gaming deals and even worse news for Sony, Microsoft has been using its vast capital to acquire the "lifeblood" of gaming - the gaming developer companies, such as RareWare.
Ok, check out the email + release. Can you say PR spin??? The spin-age is unbelievable. Hmmm. spin-age? spinach?
After all the buzz over the console war between Sony and Microsoft, interest in the PlayStation3 has taken a surprising leap over the Xbox360. IGN Entertainment's Gamermetrics, a videogame business intelligence tool, has measured just how much hype the two consoles generated during the show.
I've included the press release below. If you are interested in learning more about the news or the GamerMetrics tools please feel free to contact me.
ANTICIPATION FOR SONY NEXT GENERATION CONSOLE CRAWLS ABOVE MICROSOFT'S NEW PLATFORM, ACCORDING TO IGN ENTERTAINMENT'S GAMERMETRICS
BRISBANE, Calif. - May 27, 2005 - Despite coming out of the gate after the significant excitement about the Xbox 360, Sony's PlayStation3 surprised some by garnering the lion's share of interest in the console war. IGN Entertainment's GamerMetrics, a leading videogame business intelligence tool analyzing awareness, engagement, and purchase intent of more than 20 million gamers, showed that the PlayStation3 and Xbox 360 were the buzz of the show, enjoying a more than 60% mindshare among the network's 2.1 million daily unique visitors.
The major industry announcements of Xbox 360 and PlayStation3 engaged IGN's audiences at record numbers, generating more than 35 million page views on May 17. IGN Entertainment, the leading gaming information network reaches an audience of more than 24 million unique users*.
According to GamerMetrics, the top 5 games of E3 2005 were:
·The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Published by Nintendo for GameCube
·Metal Gear Solid 4
Published by Konami for PlayStation3
·Killzone
Published by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation3
·Devil May Cry 4
Published by Capcom for PlayStation3
·Vision GT
Published by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation3
The top 5 platforms, listed by mindshare were:
·Sony PlayStation3 34%
·Microsoft Xbox 360 28%
·Nintendo Game Cube 17%
·Sony PlayStation2 10%
·PC 5%
Over the five days of E3, IGN.com and GameSpy editors:
·covered more than 1,120 different games
·wrote more than 3,800 articles
·offered up almost 18,000 E3 images
·uploaded more than 2,200 videos
Users posted more than 450,000 messages on the IGN boards in the five days of
E3 and 7,337,052 video features were served.
IGN Entertainment's flagship website, IGN.com, reaches the highest concentration of 18-34 year old males online, according to Nielsen//NetRatings @Plan Spring
2005 release. IGN Entertainment's network of media properties reaches an audience of more than 24 million unique users*.
GamerMetrics, the industry's leading business intelligence tool, analyzes awareness and activity of more than 20 million gamers, 2.5 million daily gamers and game ownership metrics from over 400,000 panelists and 260,000 paying subscribers.
Taking the heartbeat of the business directly with gamers, IGN can be a resource for anyone who needs to understand the year ahead in the games market.
About IGN Entertainment
IGN Entertainment provides many of the Internet's leading destinations for video gaming, entertainment and community targeted at teens and 18-34 year-old males.
The company's properties include IGN.com, GameSpy, Rotten Tomatoes, FilePlanet, GameSpy Arcade, GameSpy Arena, Direct2Drive, TeamXbox , 3D Gamers, more than 70 community sites and a vast array of online forums. Collectively, these properties reached more than 24 million users worldwide* in the month of March 2005, according to Internet audience measurement firm comScore Media Metrix. IGN Entertainment is also a leading provider of technology for online game play in video games.
The company's paid content, download and game play services are among the most popular game-related subscriptions available on the Internet. The privately held company has its headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area, with offices throughout the U.S.
* comScore Media Metrix, March 2005 Worldwide data. Worldwide data cited herein represent an aggregate of 32 countries reported by comScore Media Metrix on a monthly basis.
All other data, IGN internal logs.
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IGN Entertainment, Direct2Drive, IGN.com, GameSpy, Rotten Tomatoes, FilePlanet, GameSpy Arcade, GameSpy Arena and TeamXbox are trademarks of IGN Entertainment.
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playstation 3 won and im happy because it is the best look at the games.
>>playstation 3 won and im happy because it is the best look at the games.
What crack are you smoking? First of all the games for the Playstation 3 aren't even out yet nor for the XBOX 360.
But if you want to base it on the Playstation 2 vs. XBOX, all I can say is HALO2 baby!
That and the XBOX has steadily caught up to Playstation 2 in number of games. XBOX 360 will surpass Playstation 3 in total number of games.
I think it just depends on wich one you like to do more, for example if you enjoy online play then the xbox 360 would be a much more suitable choice but if your like me and perfer to keep it simple just wait for the playstation 3 and even then i would hold off just a couple of months to see what my freinds said and try to get a test try on both consoles but right now it is looking like im definetly going to buy the playstation 3
"When it comes to graphics, marketing, processing and brand image; xbox is going to win."
THIS is what we have been hearing since Nov,2001.
But this never really happened. XBox being more powerful: still lost 10-25(million sales in the US). Gaming emotion is too much with Sony as people have seen that what Microsoft brought out for xbox was mostly PC like crap for the supposedly great machine. As far as media coverage is seen, here in India PS3 dominates all the spotlight. And come on ; it has a twice as powerful CPU and 6 times the disc capacity.
Remember Netscape? They had millions more users because they were "first". But MS came along and eventually took over the dominant position. Firefox is chipping away of course, but MS still has a dominant lead.
What made the XBOX (Gen I) the envy of Playstation 2 owners was XBOX Live - the best integrated online playing experience. Playstation 2 has nowhere near the online experience that XBOX had, especially with titles such as Halo and Halo2.
What made Playstion 2 the envy of XBOX owners was that Playstation 2 had more exclusive titles.
However, this advantage won't be as pronounced in the next generation. Bill Gates has invested billions into XBOX 2 and has locked up several gaming titles - and even worse news for Playstation 2, they're eyeing exclusive contracts with entire game developer companies. Bill G has the capital to spend to ensure that the XBOX 2 won't have any issues with less game titles than the Playstation 3.
There won't be a title discrepancy this time around or the numbers will be very close.
What will be the differentiator won't be the graphics either - it will be the extra features such as online play, media center functionality (music, video, TV/PVR), etc. XBOX 2 has these in spades.
PS3 STILL THE BEST FOR SELLING, BUT WE CAN SEE LATER..... FOR THE PIXELS I THINK BOTH OF THEM ARE SAME.........
Quote:
"First it was Atari, then Nintendo, then Sony, and now Microsoft will become the dominant game console manufacturer. That's not a prediction - that's a fact."
Nope, it's a prediction. To quote you again: "Neither the Playstation3 or the Xbox 360 are in the market yet" - so any talk about who's going to dominate this round is pure speculation. Nothing wrong with that - maybe MS will fare better this time, maybe they won't, time will tell. Personally, I don't have an emotional investement into either side.
But don't try to tell us your personal predictions on the matter have any more substance to them than the claims of all the other pundits out there.
No unit has been sold yet, so there simply are no facts and sales figures to state.
>>But don't try to tell us your personal predictions on the matter have any more substance to them than the claims of all the other pundits out there.
You're right, I don't know the future... It's called hyperbole. The press release was full of it - more so than my comments.
But I can make a best-guess based on Microsoft's past record in dominating markets they enter.
Maybe Microsoft won't attain a majority 51% market share, but they surely will close the gap with Sony which right now is the dominant gaming console leader. (Actually with more than 2 game console players, (i.e. Nintendo) a majority is more like 40%)
yo pienso q el plystation 3 va a ganar porque tiene bluetooh y los cds del ps2 le sirven al ps3 al xbox no le sirven espero q les guste mi carta si la reciben mandenmen una para saber que la recibieron ,he tenido todos los playstation menos chiquito y estoy pensando en comprarme el portatic
PS 3 All the way baby!
man all x box has and will ever have is the HALO series and thats it, nothing else. that game is the only thing keeping it up float in the race. playstation 3 is better than the xbox 360 no comp. by far the ps2 alone has beating the x box to this date. the 360 is nothing more then a calaboration of things that are available today the ps3 has tech. that will surpass the 360 in the long run thats why im waiting for the ps3
can anyone tell me if i would be able to run x box 360 on my normal analog display tv?
TO ME,IT DOSENT MATTER WHICH ONE IS BETTER THE XBOX 360 AND PLAYSTATION 3 ARE BOTH GOING TO BE
AWSOME SYSTEMS
first off I like to say that there's not any console out there in comparison to the playstation.#1: playstation has way to many games and also what makes playstation the best is it's looks, It doesn't look like a toy, it something a grown man can put in his living room and not have to worry about how it looks unlike the xbox who's got all type of colors and looks like a toy. And also the controller for the xbox is weird, it's to big, it has way to many buttons and it's not made for any size hand, most people struggle with it because it's to bulky. overall you wouldn't find an xbox in my living room.
i want the ps3
i like the xbox 360 more than a ps3 because it small and if u dont like the xbox 360 fuck u?
Xbox360 has better games than PlayStation3 but i prefer PS3
A question.Whose better PS3 Or Xbox 360 Idon know
to all u xbox 360 noobs "xbox mite have a better online system but ps3 as a console is way better when it comes to graphics, and the only reason xbox as done alright is because of Bungie making halo and with games like killzone 2 and MGS4 microsoft is screw'd
u bastars stop thinking that the xbox 360 is gonna win because it is clearly at state that the the PS3 is going to win one reason is that its 2x's more powerful then the xbox 360 because my cousins works at sony and works with the PS3.
did u no ps3 has a graphics card better than liek 2 GeForce 7800 ultra's put together witch is liek teh best card out their
You can say the PS3 will have a better graphics card and graphics but when the PS3 first comes out I dont belive anyone will see the difference
between the graphics.Enough about the graphics which one is faster???
i read the ps3 and xbox specs the ps3 has 2 teraflops of performance but xbox has 1 teraflop.so the ps3 is faster and besides mgs4 was rendered real-time using a ps3 in TGS none of the xbox 360 games had the graphics of mgs4.many people who have tried xbox say there is no difference between the xbox 360 and a pc even with high defination output.
we well have to wait for ps3 now and see what it does.
I had a playstation 2, so the thing that made since to me would be to upgrade to sony's new console. But the Xbox 360 sounded just as good and has released earlier. So I think most people will get tired of waiting and will buy the Xbox 360.
16 % xbox 360 are defective as they dont work destroy disks or repeatedly shut downs and has thousands of fires set by the xbox 360s heat and the ps3 is 3 times as powerful as the xbox 360 the games graphics looks like your playing a movie and looks like real life and the 360s is basicly a xbox with more power and slightly powerer than the xbox
ps3 is gonna be better. Just like ps2 came out first it remaind on top and the xbox was catching up. But they knew they couldnt be better so they had to make a new system. Xbox 360 is now out and still over half of the gamers in the world and waiting to get a ps3 and i am one of them. Ps3's Killzone is the best looking game i have ever seen and its for ps3. Same with MGS4. and they are just two games for ps3. think of all the others they are gonna make, all xbox has to look for is halo 3. Halo 2 is pretty fun but it gets old for playing 2 or 3 hrs. Ps3 is gonna have way better grphics too. when xbox came out thats all my friends would say "but it has better graphics than ps2" and now since they know that ps3 is gonna be more powerful they are now saying "graphics are not eveything". So u know that ps3 is gonna be way better than 360 so shut the fuck up and bye ps3.
halo is to xbox as ipod is to apple
its all they have... to barely keep them in the market and looking unique.
the xbox is for gamers that cant afford a real pc. simple as that. because theres nothing i can get on the xbox that i cant get for pc, or better looking and running on a playstation (x)
if u think the 360 is going to completly replace the ps3 than ur fucking retarded. u should get kicked in the balls for posting this bullshit on the internet. PS3 is going to rule the world one day i swear its that good.