Microsoft misses Xbox360 shipping target?

First of all, I wish you all a happy new year and apologize for the recent lack in updates. 2007 will be a great year for videogames. By late summer or autumn, we will see a clear winner emerging from the console war. Consequently, 2007 will be a great year for ´Wii: Definitive Speculation´. But now, let us turn to the topic at hand.

Microsoft may have missed its shipping target of ten million units by the end of the year. Videogame Charts reports an estimated 7,9 million units sold, while NexGen Wars estimates just less than 9,4 million.

Microsoft expected to have shipped ten million Xbox360 consoles by today, including ´units in transit, units sitting in store inventories and machines sold to consumers,´ as News.com specifies.

While the latter figure of 9,4 million units seems to suggest that more than ten million units have shipped, after all, the former figure of 7,9 million does not. I seriously doubt that more than two million consoles are in transit or waiting on store shelves.

Sources: Videogame Charts, NexGen Wars, News.com

PS3´s full power to remain untapped forever, says Sony

Sony really deserves every single word of bad press they get at the moment, I have come to accept now. Why, you ask? Because their executives are rubbish at communicating their product.

Sony Computer Entertainment exec Phil Harrison recently went on record, saying that the PlayStation3 is so powerful that "nobody will ever use 100 percent of its capability."

While that might sound impressive at face value, it is undoubtedly the most ridiculous statement someone can make about a product like this (one that is both so expensive and cutting edge) and is sure to drive potential buyers towards either competitor.

Think about it. It is like saying that a hair dryer is really powerful, but will never actually work at full output capacity. You still have to pay plenty extra for that extra power, although it will go unused, of course. Mind you, Mr. Harrison would make an excellent hair dryer, with all the hot air coming out of him these days.

I think that Harrison should be fired for making such moronic statements at a crucial time for what essentially is a great product. And I would not be surprised to see that happen soon, too. After all, last time I called for Ken Kutaragi to be sacked - and remember what happened just over a week later?

Source: MTV
Thanks to: Slashdot, Ars Technica

Early Wii controller prototypes

NSider forum user Japtar10101 has uploaded a picture from Nikkei Business magazine, apparently showing some early Wii controller prototypes.


God knows how we would have used that star controller, if it was meant as the main controller, at all. If not, there might be some ideas in that photo that Nintendo will realise further down the road.

Source: Japtar10101