The philosophy of making products
Sony finally released information about their new incarnation of the PSP. The PSP Go. Without UMD it will sell in paralell with the PSP 3000 while all new PSP titles will be available on UMD as well as digital download. It has 16GB internal memory and place for a memory card. It’s also about the size of an iPhone but with about the same size screen as the PSP 3000. I want one.
E3 is back and with a vengeance, it’s more news then ever and the quality of games has increased by an order of magnitude since the last E3.
The things I’ve found most interesting so far are:
Motion controlling for the future by Microsoft with project Natal and by Sony with the playstation motion controller.
Games of unsurpassed quality with Uncharted 2, Assasins Creed 2, modNation Racers and God of War 3.
Did I mention that Xbox 360 is adding applications for Twitter and Facebook as well as opening the renamed Zune Video Store in Europe? The Wii gets more peripherals and circa two games but honestly, who cares?
PS3 sales skyrocket as Final Fantasy Advent Children complete is released with the playable demo of FF13.This is quite probably one of 2009s biggest releases on the PS3 and points to the outcome of this generation in the console war.
There will be no #1 gaming platform.
The Wii has outsold everything x2 and but still has poor support from and to third parties. The Xbox 360 has a clear lead over the PS3 but is clearly not a winner though Microsoft has made both a ton of money and millions of new customers. The PS3 continues to stagnate with good support but far from the great support of the golden PSX days.
In conclusion I miss those days, there was a clear winner, a clear platform that every developer aimed for and a wide spectrum of games.
Maybe the next generation will see a renaissance of games development. Maybe we’ll see total domination by Adobe Flash or OnLive.
Jesper Bylund