After his keynote at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this week, Bill Gates was chatting to a small group of reporters about the 360 and according to a blogger from Mercury News, Gates talked about how Microsoft and Sony have switched positions.

He said that this time, Microsoft has the high ground. It has "a small box, costs less, is visually compelling, has great games, does online superbly and offers all of the tools for game developers to make games easily," Gates said referring to the 360.

He also said that Sony doesn't have any advantage in graphics saying that Sony "burned a year" trying to make the Cell processor do graphics functions. And when it didn't work, they went to Nvidia for the graphics chip at the last minute. Gates said the 360 game developers would always be a year ahead of Sony on the learning curve in taking advantage of the system and as a result, PS3 will never have games that look better than Xbox 360's.

Currently it's true, Gears of War is the best looking game on any system. There's just no denying it. But I guess only time will tell if Sony will prove Mr. Gates wrong. I for one hope they will, as I imagine Microsoft will then retaliate and it's us, the gamers, that end up playing the sickest looking games ever created.

Ya, you do not want the competition to die...it do us no good.

All we need to understand is everyone is having a great time with Gears of War or Lost planet or Viva Pinata or....barbie horse adventure. That's what matters.

360 not a quite success yet lah... remember 3ROD? pity those that got 3ROD earlier...

as long moore is there xbox will not success

Not 'ALL".. my wanted list game in 360.. so i dont care want machine ... better... i just want to play GOOD game... that all.... most big RPG game i like.. ....goes to SONY.. only little on 360... .... & than SONy only release PS3.. 2--3 month ago.. maybe next year... PS3... got lot of "good" game...

This post has been edited by samurai20: Jan 16 2007, 08:40 AM

yep, only time can tell

Yeah agree..it will benefit more to end user like us. They r fighting, we r enyoying..

Same wif u. Im still assume Sony will alwayz manage to get the BIG KILLER games..But now 360 is rockin. MS need to offer more variety in game genre instead of shooting..shooting n shooting again..

Or maybe eventually they'll fall into the genre of a console solely for shiny, pretty, shooters.

Which isn't bad, IMHO. Each console will have a niche. It DOES get boring quite fast, which is why MS is rolling out all the IPTV bells and whistles...

Just don't forget , with the humongous cas reserves, Microsoft can always play the unfair advantage by taking over any game developer companies.....especially the one that has close association with its competitors...and I am predicting at least 3/4 dgame developer companies will be under the roof of Microsoft Game Studio this year...

This post has been edited by silencer: Jan 16 2007, 11:58 AM

yet to be seen near future. Many games will cross platform. Ermm..spec n func wise 360 maybe.

me no fanboy here, but x360 really not my cup of tea
although the graphics i saw on dead rising was real nice, and i heard GOW is way better

anyway, the more competition the more improvement, but i really hate those games whre they have it on all consoles

anyway, if $$ permits, i will still be getting a X360 , it seem s tat alot of fun cums from online gaming

wow
even the toys are our for this game

http://www.xl-shop.com/xlshop/product_imag...AI-FIGURE-N.jpg

does anyone read about graphic comparison between 360 n PS3 on gamespot? they compare ridge racer 6 with 7(if im not mistake, there is another games too) n found out 360 delivers better graphic gameplay than ps3...

still... 360 already out about 1 year, n ps3 just few months ago... let just wait n see...

*as long as major games from team ninja does not belong to ps3... they broke my heart when they decided to developed ninja gaiden sigma for ps3. if not im going to jump from my rooftop for sure...

hahahahahahahahahaha

i totally agree in expanding the genre of games on 360. have u guys noticed tht DOA4 is the only fighting game on 360 for now?

yea we have vf5 and def jam on the way..but still..how far can fighting games go on next gen eh?

Am I the only one who thinks that it would be better for a console monopoly?

I mean, I'm not fortunate enough to be able to own ALL consoles, and quite often I've thought "wow I'd SO love to have that game but I don't have the console for it."

IMO console monopoly is good. The quality of the games would arguably be the same because there's still competition between the studios, but the difference to us would be all the best games would be playable on the same console

yup 360 games got this nice lighting...but have to remember what will happen if Resistance plays on 360...?

just wait til Heavenly Swords and White Knight releases on the PS3 then u can compare that time

Actually RR7 had far better lighting than RR6 but the jaggies are quite noticeable.

yeah just SAW trailer for those game... the GFX.. cant say anything la.. so fuking GOOD.. hope... it will remain until the game release.. ....

**now saving money to buy Wii & PS3..