Fanboys, start your engines…
In this corner, XBox 360 with the following cool new info:
• Backwards compatibility confirmed!
• iPod and PSP integration.
• Final Fantasy XI on XBox Live.
Those are the three biggest things that jumped out at me. Backwards compatibility is huge. The iPod and PSP hookup I had heard rumored but doubted. I look forward to more information as far as just how much integration we’re talking about here, I mean, can we expect to see an iTunes for XBox or are we looking at some sort of Real-style hack? Final Fantasy coming to XBox was probably the biggest surprise for me. I’m hardly a Final Fantasy fan but this game has been such a huge part of the Playstation stable for so long that I’m frankly surprised to hear that it’s coming to XBox. That, along with the cred XBox stands to gain in the all-important Japanese market is a big deal.
And in this corner: PS3!
- It’s, uh, better than the XBox.
Color me skeptical, but, uh, didn’t Sony sink the Dreamcast by promising things like “Toy Story rendered in real time” on the PS2? I’m sure the PS3 is going to be a great console (though it looks butt ugly to me, and that controller? Please.) and Sony is definitely hitting all the right marks: backward compatibility, tons of ports and memory formats, Blu-Ray, etc. A couple of things stand out for me though, namely no mention of online gaming and no word on whether or not the thing will have network capability out of the box. I mean, come on! How much does an ethernet port really cost? And then there’s Sony’s insistence that PS3 will have a native resolution of 1080p in response to the XBox’s 720p and 1080i. Um. Does anyone even make TV’s that support 1080p? I mean, it’s not exactly a common resolution.
I don’t think that Sony has anything to worry about from Microsoft (yet) but at the same time, I think that Sony’s continued neglect for online console gaming is going to hurt them in a big way. Seriously, XBox Live is very cool and it’s only going to get cooler. I’m just saying.
Link to engadget’s coverage of E3 coverage of the XBox and PS3
Update: PS3 will have both ethernet and 802.11b/g and Bluetooth. Which is, of course, way nifty.
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