Comments on: FAQ: The next video game consoles?

Manufacturers won't spill details on upcoming game consoles, but News.com got some, anyway.
Images: Consoles of tomorrow?

[Andrew J Glina]

Pointless

Surprisingly factless article. I thought that the PS2 would use Memory Sticks, but it didn't so I am not conviced that the PS3 will. (I think that Sony wanted to be able to charge the same for the Memory Card instead of dripping the price as flash became cheaper.) I am hoping that the PS3 will have a HD, or at least 1GB of flash interally. Memory Card are annoying (and expensive) and it is why I buy more XBOX games these days.

[Andrew J Glina]

Pointless

Surprisingly factless article. I thought that the PS2 would use Memory Sticks, but it didn't so I am not conviced that the PS3 will. (I think that Sony wanted to be able to charge the same for the Memory Card instead of dripping the price as flash became cheaper.) I am hoping that the PS3 will have a HD, or at least 1GB of flash interally. Memory Card are annoying (and expensive) and it is why I buy more XBOX games these days.

With comments like these

Why didn't you rather leave the Cube out of the article completely?

With comments like these

Why didn't you rather leave the Cube out of the article completely?

[montgomeryburns]

What other newish game consoles are there?

What other newish game consoles are there? Any good ones?

New systems

To answer your question. The three main consoles that are going to be coming out over the next 2 1/2 or so are from Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft. Microsofts next Xbox (widely rumored to be called Xbox 360) is expected to be released by the end of the year. Sony initially said mid 06-early 07. But I think Sony wouldn't want Microsoft building up too much momentum before it releases its next Gen system, and Nintendo? Well, no game developers even have dev kits (Sony doesn't either for that matter) out to developers yet, so I wouldn't expect to see anything from Nintendo until PS3 launches or even after.

[montgomeryburns]

What other newish game consoles are there?

What other newish game consoles are there? Any good ones?

New systems

To answer your question. The three main consoles that are going to be coming out over the next 2 1/2 or so are from Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft. Microsofts next Xbox (widely rumored to be called Xbox 360) is expected to be released by the end of the year. Sony initially said mid 06-early 07. But I think Sony wouldn't want Microsoft building up too much momentum before it releases its next Gen system, and Nintendo? Well, no game developers even have dev kits (Sony doesn't either for that matter) out to developers yet, so I wouldn't expect to see anything from Nintendo until PS3 launches or even after.