Console Wars
evawhite on May 24th, 2008
Of you readers, the ones using gaming consoles should find this article interesting, it will answer much asked questions and for those know not much should find it interesting nonetheless.
The warring factions are the Playstation 3, Microsoft Xbox and the Nintendo wii. It is worth mentioning the personal computing gamers are a large bunch as well. So how this works is these console manufacturers tie up with game production houses. These production houses then release blockbuster titles exclusively for the respective consoles only, hence getting gamers to buy these consoles for those games. Each console is popularized by exclusive runaway success games and has subsequently drawn their own console gamer following.
The Sony Playstation had ruled the market for recent times, the Nintendo had its own following but all that changed with Microsoft entering the gaming market. Microsoft upped the notch, released its console earlier than the Sony Playstation with some good games and made headway before the releases of Nintendo Wii and Playstation 3.
Today there is a lot of speculation about which console will come out on top. That depends on the content. Gamers want good games to play on their consoles. Aside from consoles only appealing to gamers these consoles today aim to be the center of digital entertainment systems. They are high-quality movie players. One can use them to access online content such as on-demand TV shows, movie previews and everything else the World Wide Web has to offer. For gamer son by day and sports highlights archive for dad by night. Or for that matter anyone, on-demand TV is now the most convenient and best way to watch TV.
Take this to thought, some approximate stats, 13 million Sony Playstation 3 units were sold, 19 million Xbox units have been sold. Now will any gaming production house restrict themselves to 19 million or be open to over 40 million potential users?? Enter: Multi-Platform Gaming. It has begun; the biggest gaming houses have started releasing games Multi-Platform.
