Competition Facing Problems

Thanks to Falafelkid at nintendo-revolution.blogspot.com, some interesting information regarding the Xbox 360 and PS3 have been revealed. The first, states that Microsoft have officially abandoned their target sales of 2.75 - 3 million for 360 in the console's initial 90 days of sales. According to the Financial Times, MS blamed a lack of capacity and components for shortages on the 360.

Analysts estimate shipments at 1.3m worldwide by the end of 2005, with shortages predicted for January. The situation has leftgamers frustrated and meant limited sales of 360 titles for video games publishers and retailers.

The full article can be read at nintendo-revolution.blogspot.com. I guess this is good news for Nintendo, already with all their current consoles (exc old GBA) outselling the Xbox 360 each, every week, with the Nintendo DS even outselling it 120 times over just a fortnight ago.

Apparantly, Sony are also facing some troubles with PS3 development. Sony developer Josh Robinson have fired some pretty harsh comments towards Sony's next gen home console. Here are some important quotes in his remarks:

Well my immediate impression of the PS3 is... where is it? Seriously, where is it? They have a case, a controller and a dev kit. But the system still doesn’t even exist.

What most companies do is fake the entire demo. I mean they come up with some great visuals and neat tricks and scripted events. In the end however, its not a real time demo and its not running ON the actual box.

The consistent comment I am hearing from people on my end is, “The XBOX 360 is better”

The game that we are creating for a launch title is a “just get it out” title in my opinion. It doesn’t look next generation. I don’t see how anyone could debate otherwise.

I mean I was at e3 2005 and PS3 was almost no where to be seen.

Not sure how this thing is gonna make it out any time soon. It may be closer to 2007 or christmas of 06 before this thing sees the light of day. We'll see.

You can read his full remarks along with the article at nintendo-revolution. If these quotes are true, they prove that Sony are behind in console development, they are lacking third party support to produce quality titles, and are facing problems with cost. It seems Sony is in even bigger trouble than Microsoft. Now that I tihnk about it, in the last 12 months alone, Sony have had to deal with many problems, starting with the $90 million lawsuit, to the firing of employees, to the greater than ever competition they are facing in every department of the company (Nintendo, MS, Apple etc).