Sweeeet...

Yah, "Sweeeet..." is what I would have said.

The original article that this refers to is really quite interesting from a number of aspects. I dont find it remotly hard to beleave that Steve Ballmer was an arrogent prick. His analisys of Sony is quite interesting as well. I think his down-playing of RPGs is abit much (I dont see square loosing much ground as a game developer). really gaming has broken down into 3 classes: RPG, FPS, and RTS. there is kinda a "children's" catigory, which nintendo has always targeted (a good plan, but one much also include games for them to "graduate" to). i dont think he fully understands that Sony (MS too... i guess... they are trying... i think... really everything Yamauchi-san says about americans can be applied to MS) is targeting that market, an older market (a market which has money to spend).

The GC really was a good platform, there were some good games on it, but i always like the RPG, i always will. Sony PS & PS2 are also good platforms. he understimates what Sony brought into gaming, it is unfortunate but i said up untill this year noone has used the PS2 to it full potental (my little sister got one of the "prince of persia" games for christmas, amazingly steller graphics and effects) the biggest problem with the PS2 is noone knew how to code for it. there havent been many multi-cored consoles before it (the PS2 is a dual 64bit MIPS (they claim it a 128bit MIPS, but that is a technicly dubius argument))

A truly multi-processing gaming console, that is sony's biggest contriubution to the industry. there 2nd is proving that optical disks were more then viable as a distriubution media. sony may not have invented anything, what they have done is made things VIABLE