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1. Comment - Has Xbox 360 Already Won the War?

   (Dec 10, 2006 - 1:21 AM)

   The PS3 may be a great machine for the users, but for the developers is a pain in the rear. Hell, even the 360 is a slight pain with the amount of multithreading we have to deal with. At least with the 360, I don't have to worry about separating out specific code for the SPUs and make sure that is synchronized with the rest of the stuff running on the CPU.
   
   Regarding the "idiots" who made and marketed it, if only you knew what the original plan was. Had it not been for nVidia, the PS3 would seriously have been PS2.5.In the end, what we have is a Blu-ray player and "would have been" DVR that was desperately retro-fitted to be a next-gen videogame console.
   
   I have no doubt that the 360 will win this time around. Those guys in M$ have hit the sweet spot with regards to price/performance ratio and will not stop until they beat Sony. Not only is the 360 very close to being profitable, it has a SKU without the hard drive, which will allow them to come up with a sub 200 dollar console 2 years down the road.
   
   The only wildcard this time around is the Wii . It's really hard to tell if the Wii will be able to sustain it's novelty and continue to sell. Then again, we all know the DS story.