The Iron Yuppie

PS3 and Xbox 2

I found another article here:

TIMEasia.com Business: Sony Plays for the Big Stakes: "Here's the world Kutaragi envisions: from your mobile phone, you send an e-mail telling the machine to turn up the air-conditioning at home. 'Welcome home,' it purrs when you open the front door; it then puts your video e-mail on the TV monitor. You command the [console] to download the movie you want and play it 30 minutes later. Mid-film, you stop to cue up a video game featuring the movie's main characters. Then you e-mail a virtual friend you met online who also likes this game; you face off against each other. "

Oops, that's about PS2 and from 2000. Look at how many of those things you can do today... none. Here's what I guarantee about the Xbox++, Gamecube++, PS++... it will have more processing power, more memory and will have some kind of game pad type device that you will use to control "video games". Anything else you read about this stuff now is worthless.

One thing that's kind of bad for Nintendo and Sony, however, is this quote:

Microsoft had delivered development kits to EA, said Mr Armes, but he said the company was still waiting on Sony and Nintendo to send kits.

Wow, that's really really bad. If this is the case, I am not sure how either of those consoles will be able to launch by the end of the year, and even if they do, I have no idea how they are going to have launch titles from any third parties. Eleven months is practically nothing when you talk about developing games on these types of platforms.