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Yeah joint venture in that sony's only real contribution was paying for most of it.Firestreak said:Joint venture.
Yes, obviously I have no idea what's going on in the gaming industry, especially when the majority of the industry agrees with me. Pull your head out of your ass already, your idea of "the direction of the future of gaming" is the vast, vast, minority of those actually in the gaming industry. You don't like the motion sensing because you can't do it right, fine, but learn to accept that almost no one in the gaming industry actually agrees with you. When there's gaming companies left and right praising the Wii and it's innovation, it's hard to believe that you actually know more about it than they do. Hell, the wii is winning awards left and right for it's innovation, actual awards too; but I'm sure they're all just wrong and you're right.You obviously have no idea what the fuck is actually going on in the industry in terms of the edge of new innovation. The fact that you think the Nintendo Wii is a technological innovator is a testament to this. The only innovation that's been a notable jump in a system is that the Cell happens to be first appearing in the PS3. I don't consider Blu-ray innovative in the PS3, it's been around. They're just the first person to stick it in a console.
Motion sensors isn't innovative, it's not even new to a console, it's just the first time it's been mass produced with that particular level of sophistication. Nintendo didn't invent it, they just used it. That's fine, but Sony was part of actually inventing the Cell, and the PS3 is the first thing to use it. That's actual technical innovation. That's actually pushing technology forward.
Innovation is doing something new, whether using current technology in a new way or making new technology. Motion detection has been around for a while, but they were the first to actually incorporate it at it's current level into a console. The technology in the wiimote is new, because Nintendo worked with the developers of the technology over the last 4 years. At the very least, it's the exact same level of participation that sony had in developing the cell processor. So not only are they the first ones to incorporate it on such a scale, but by your own definition, they are innovative because they helped create the technology.Innovation is something "new." Motion sensors aren't new. The wiimote isn't new technology. Typically, console hardware isn't innovative. It's cheap, mass produced and standardized. Besides the cell chip, not much technology has debuted on a gaming console.
Way to completely miss the fucking point, I'm becoming less and less surprised each time you do it. The point was that a major sony executive was admitting that the PS3 didn't have a big market share yet. It's a wild shift in their interviews, usually they just bash the other consoles and act like they're already winning; but it looks like they've finally seen the sales figures and realized they're in last place.Old news. For the gigantic production costs of GTA4, neither console would have had the install base to support it alone. You have to take into account it's going to actually sell some PS3s to people who are looking for a reason to upgrade from last gen and don't like Microsoft(the entire world minus America). We're talking about an extremely small slice of the pie they're dividing a gigantic budget for. Just making something next-gen cuts out user base, after all, even now the PS2 is owning the Xbox360 and PS3 put together.
Might want to stop living in the PS3 box and look at what the rest of the industry is doing. It's great that you like your PS3, but you're in the minority for thinking the Wii isn't innovative or a good console.
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