{"id":1014,"date":"2010-11-10T20:10:10","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T20:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chocobeam.me\/playground\/2010\/11\/msn-brawl\/"},"modified":"2010-11-10T20:10:10","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T20:10:10","slug":"msn-brawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2010\/11\/msn-brawl\/","title":{"rendered":"MSN Brawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Arial\">   <\/p>\n<p>Because industry analyses certainly suck.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo<\/p>\n<p>The river of money is over. After selling loads of Wii and DS, they announced the 3DS so that everybody can forget about a new console for the living room. They\u2019re screwed with their prices: the simple Nintendo DS is still 129 bucks and they can\u2019t lower their prices on everything, that would badly cut their profits and send a message that they\u2019re sweating. They still don\u2019t sell colored Wii with the new wiimotionplus-ed wiimote. And the 3DS is going to be expensive while only Nintendo is going to make the 3D screen something awesome. People won\u2019t jump on it. There\u2019s competition in this price range of mobile game devices to which we can add the Apple, Windows Phone 7 Android combo and maybe Playstation Phone too by the time the 3DS is available.<\/p>\n<p>Sony<\/p>\n<p>Still losing blood. People wanting to have motion control in the living room already have a Wii. Others don\u2019t really care. I mean Sony is communicating on shipped numbers (as usual) and <em>\u201cconsumer purchase intent\u201d<\/em> being <em>better than it was before<\/em>. How weak is that. You see, if you start from 0 and sales go to 1, that\u2019s an increase of 100%. But it\u2019s actually still shitty. The big problem is they don\u2019t have any big title for the Move or even for the PS3. They have nothing for the end of the year and are barely getting out of the red financially. The PS3 is IMO, since the first announcements, the biggest entertainment product failure ever seen. They failed everybody in the chain. Sad.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft<\/p>\n<p>On the roll. Whatever you think about the Kinect, it\u2019s the next step: after having stuff in your hands, how about having nothing? MS gets the technology edge with their product and unlike Sony, they have a killer app: Dance Central. They\u2019re also selling the new 360 stealth like hot cakes (I wonder the detailed sales with women and minorities) here in the US and the 360 has the widest catalog of games hands down. Oh and on the mobile front, WP7 is out, works well and games on WP7 phones are already way better than their counterpart on Android (who\u2019s the big thing these days). And Live integration. And XNA. I mean, they have something absolutely huge in their hands and it\u2019s called Momentum.<\/p>\n<p>This end of the year probably will not escape Redmond giant\u2019s supremacy.<\/p>\n<p> <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because industry analyses certainly suck. Nintendo The river of money is over. After selling loads of Wii and DS, they announced the 3DS so that everybody can forget about a new console for the living room. They\u2019re screwed with their prices: the simple Nintendo DS is still 129 bucks and they can\u2019t lower their prices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}