Playstation and Nintendo Join Consule War

Posted on May 18, 2005

The Xbox 360 display on MTV may have kicked off the consule war but PlayStation and Nintendo intend on joining the battle. Sony has shown off its PlayStation 3 system, which runs on a powerful new computer that Sony dubs "a supercomputer for computer entertainment."

Joystiq and the BBC have more on this system including specs. Other good resources on the PS3 include The Unofficial PS3 webblog and Wikipedia's P3 entry. The BBC says the PS3 will not be out until Spring 2006. Meanwhile, Nintendo is showing off its new game system, the Nintendo Revolution (pictured on right). USA Today describes Revolution in a recent article:

Nintendo, whose GameCube sales have lagged, hopes to gain ground, particularly among the fast-growing older-gaming market. Revolution is about the size of a stack of three DVD cases and has no visible knobs, buttons or ports for joysticks. The system will use only wireless controllers, and it sits flat or stands vertically.
With its front-loading slot for discs, it will play games on full-size DVDs as well as older GameCube games on mini-DVDs. Like Xbox and PlayStation 2, it will play DVD movies.
Nintendo, which mostly ignored the Net with GameCube, also is catching up with the online wave. Revolution will offer broadband access to a free Internet-based player matching service, similar to Xbox Live, that also will have downloadable versions of nearly every Nintendo game - from arcade classic Donkey Kong through current titles such as Mario Sunshine. (Nintendo hasn't decided whether downloading will be free.)

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