The PlayStation 3 hate just keeps piling on and piling on. I'm beginning to wonder if there are Sony PR people left or did they all just abandon ship? Oh well, moving along. The next industry dude to chime in on the next-gen console race is none other than Valve's Gabe Newell who had some harsh things to say about the PS3. What, did Sony murder his family or something? This is what he told Game Informer magazine:
“The PS3 is a total disaster on so many levels, I think It’s really clear that Sony lost track of what customers and what developers wanted,” said Newell. “I’d say, even at this late date, they should just cancel it and do a ‘do over’. Just say, ‘This was a horrible disaster and we’re sorry and we’re going to stop selling this and stop trying to convince people to develop for it.’”
Newell reserved special praise for the Wii, which he said would outsell Microsoft’s Xbox 360 by next Christmas.
“The happy story is the Wii,” he added. “I’m betting that by Christmas of next year, the Wii has a larger installed base than the 360. Other people think I’m crazy. I really like everything that Nintendo is doing."
Next up: Evangelists around the world will declare the PS3 to be the Antichrist and urge their followers to start a massive PS3 witch-hunt style burning. Kaz, better run while you can.
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4:14 PM on 01.15.2007
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What a crock of shit.
I'm no supporter of the PS3. But its funny to hear that statement from the man who owns Valve.
I wonder how digg and Kotaku users are responding to this statement?
I'm getting a 360, but i know that the wii will lead this generation (thinking about getting it later).
just sayin.
Coming from an experienced developer, I find this pretty compelling. However, unlike the Wii and 360, it seems that the PS3 is built for the future (when high speed internet, Blu-Ray and HD become more the norm). Remember, the PS2 has held up for nearly a decade after a slow start. Of course, the history of video game consoles that focused on other things besides great gaming is bleak.
Nick, Rob, Red Steel was a bad game, but the Wii has potential for FPS games. Elebits was a great example of what can be done on the system.
I'm sure there's no counter-arguement to Elebits.
lol
Cue the nintendo fanboyism.
Oh and notice tubby didn't say squat about the 360 like he did in the past. That's because Valve is running on MS money ATM. No doubt an exclusive HL2 "total package" will be coming out by the time Episode 2 ships (sometime in 2010).
As far as the Wii yes it is fun and i like it alot. The 360 well what can be said about it? it right now is the dominating force. just wish it had a bigger HDD...
Also how much before Sony and MS pull the Motion Sensor devices they've been working for over 2 years or so (oh you didnt knew that? search it here my young padawan) yeah lets see how great the sales for the Wii get when the motion sensor "wiimote" is a device you can buy for any console at 19.99.
Whats that Nintendo? "Mario Galaxy" nah thanks Im busy playing Halo 3, Gears of war 2 and GTA4 with a freakin motion sensing chainsaw and a realistic movement Plasma blade thanks for the thought though.
What does CPU speed and netplay have to do with each other? I was playing Quake online with my mouse+keyboard about 10 years ago with my 486DX2-100. The Wii is light years faster than that.
And selling out at launch was no big deal for Sony, since they were only able to muster producing less than a few hundred thousand.
1million SHIPPED isn't 1million sold.
or have you missed the piles of PS3s sitting on shelves while a Wii is pretty hard to attain these days?
Actual numbers are 687K, but I think they underestimated it so.
"Speaking of that prediction, well, with games like Assassin's Creed, BioShock, and Mass Effect, among others, still on the horizon for the 360... we'll see. Nothing bad against Nintendo or anything, but I think the 360 is just about to hit it's stride, if it hasn't already. "
In Japan, they are doing horribly because of those same titles. I don't think you can win a console war without Japan. Both Sony and Nintendo can win the war even if they come second in both the EU and NA market, but number 1 in Japan. It is because the Japanese market overwhelmingly favors one system over the others and the disparity is much more pronounced. You could be winning in the NA market, but your opponent is just 25% behind, and still lose the war because he has 90% market share in Japan. And the game developers. Japanese ones are still highly influential and you won't get them if you're not winning Japan.
http://developersdevelopersdevelopersdevelopers.ytmnd.com/
But Azrael, really? A motion-sensing chainsaw? Wow. A chainsaw that senses motion? I'm floored by your ingenuity.
That's obviously debatable but come on all we have is launch titles. The only good argument I can see anyone making is that it's worth it if you wanted a blu-ray player but getting a blu-ray player itself is something not worth doing yet.
Will the ps3 be worth it in the future? That's up to developers really. The hardware itself has the potential. The problem lies with how hard developers are willing to work on exploiting its capabilities. It's really in their hands whether the ps3 tanks or not. They can either make some stellar exclusives that'll rake in ps3 adopters or they can continue to make half assed ports.
These damn posers have taken my thing!
Even for you that is pretty fucking retarded.
FPS suck now because the developers haven't explored the controls. As you posted earlier today the WiiMote is actually very capable of capturing the movement.
Short-sightedness like your own on the part of developers and a reliance upon appeasing existing console FPS gamers (bounding boxes emulating analogue sticks) rather than those who want a new control system is what could hold back an excellent flood of FPS games. A few examples,
Forget the pointer functionality and just use A+motion to move the screen, B to shoot, Nunchuck for movement. This would be equal to mouse+keyboard, fairly intuitive.
Build on traditional FPS controls by allowing the pointer for aim, Z+Nunchuck for screen movement, B to shoot. This would actually give a more realistic control scheme for FPSs which even PCs would find hard to challenge.