There is an interesting battle forming between the most powerful game console with the most potential, Microsoft’s Xbox One, and Nvidia’s Shield — a rebel platform that I think is worth a look. Microsoft is pushing the envelope on the breadth of things a console can support and variety in the user interface, while Nvidia is creating a device focused on gaming in a wide variety of modes — moving from mobile gaming to console-like gaming, to remote control for personal drones and remote-control vehicles new to this segment.
I would also like to point out that the XBox One also is planning on making the games locked after first instal so you cannot go to gamestop and simply sell/buy used games anymore. This is a big change in the industry and I for one hope they get knocked down faster then a new prisoner on the klingon prison planet Rura Penthe. I'd like to see shield in action and see where they take it. That said, I will stick with ps4 as sony doesn't charge extra for online gameplay as microsoft has always done, leading back all the way to their pc online gaming hub back in the late 90's.
All the recent reports I've seen say the PS3 is actually both outselling the Xbox 360 now, and has a larger installed active base now (e.g. http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/446107/idc_total_ps3_sales_top_xbox_360/). On what do you base your assumption that Sony isn't a player?
Yes, it took them years to make the PS3 console itself profitable - but the same applies to MS, which had over a year head start on that generation console.
And you may want to think more deeply about the implications of things like the Gaikai purchase to the PS4 - it potentially gives Sony a MUCH better backward-compatibility story (as well as broad client device access, that would bring a, ahem, halo effect). Your blithe assertion that people have an Xbox 360 and maybe won't care that they are spending > $500 (estimates I've seen) without being able to leverage any of their previous investment ... umm, a lot of people are going to care, the pushback has already begun.
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Xbox One vs. Shield: Evolution vs. Revolution
Posted by: Rob Enderle May 27, 2013 05:00 AMThere is an interesting battle forming between the most powerful game console with the most potential, Microsoft’s Xbox One, and Nvidia’s Shield — a rebel platform that I think is worth a look. Microsoft is pushing the envelope on the breadth of things a console can support and variety in the user interface, while Nvidia is creating a device focused on gaming in a wide variety of modes — moving from mobile gaming to console-like gaming, to remote control for personal drones and remote-control vehicles new to this segment.
Yes, it took them years to make the PS3 console itself profitable - but the same applies to MS, which had over a year head start on that generation console.
And you may want to think more deeply about the implications of things like the Gaikai purchase to the PS4 - it potentially gives Sony a MUCH better backward-compatibility story (as well as broad client device access, that would bring a, ahem, halo effect). Your blithe assertion that people have an Xbox 360 and maybe won't care that they are spending > $500 (estimates I've seen) without being able to leverage any of their previous investment ... umm, a lot of people are going to care, the pushback has already begun.