More than the next eighteen months the three giants of the Video clip video games Console globe will be battling it out in shops and homes throughout Europe, The united states and Asia for the title of the globe greatest Video clip video games Console. The stakes are greater in this multi billion greenback business, not just for the console product sales but for the video games product sales that go along facet it. Since the start announcements of all three consoles in Might at the E3 conference in LA. The three combatants have been vying for the hundreds of 1000′s of column inches that have been produced about the Subsequent Era Consoles. Each and every Press start has been hotly followed by another press start from a rival business so a lot so that extracting the details from all the buzz has been nearly not feasible. At the start press conferences Microsoft boasted that the Xbox 360 could do 9-billion-dot-merchandise-operations per 2nd. Sony then arrived out and stated that the PS3 could do 51-billion-dot-merchandise-operations per 2nd nonetheless Sony had mixed the CPU and GPU efficiency numbers whilst Microsoft only noted its CPU efficiency amount. When the consumer is up in opposition to this type of publicity blizzard it is greatest not to think a element till you can appear at the details for your self.

So what do we know?

Well for the Xbox 360 and the Sony Playstation three we have a lot of lists of hardware and specs which really do not mean extremely a lot in isolation. The main element that require issue us are the processor speeds and they are each and every stated as being three.two GHz The only time that the hardware will mean something is when we get to operate them facet by facet and then if encounter is something to go by the distinction in real existence efficiency will not be obvious and will just be utilized by the press departments to battle it out.

Irrespective of all the press releases and info that has been spewing out of the headquarters of Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo we really know extremely few of details. We know that in all probability the Xbox 360 will be on the shelves in time for Xmas, Amazon are presently taking pre-delivery orders and are quoting a start working day of November 28th. The prices have been set at $299 for the Core Program and $399 for the Xbox 360, the distinction being that the Core program doesn’t have the exterior difficult drive needed to conserve video games and download new content or the headset needed to play on-line on Xbox Reside! Why two prices? and why a edition that has not acquired each and every element integrated? This appears extremely a lot like a merchandise of the advertising division attempting to get a merchandise at the historically essential sub $300 level much more than something and this may backfire on them in the lengthy operate.

Subsequent to hit the Shelves will be Sony’s Playstation three supposedly in spring next yr as soon as much more we have extremely few of details to go on, Sony are constantly releasing press releases and mentioning in public that the cost will be greater and the figure of $500 has been talked about but a number of business specialists suspect that this is a ploy so that when they start it at $300 or $350 it will appear like a discount. The last console to hit the shelves will be the Nintendo Revolution some time late in 2006 and 2007. Since the &ampampquotlaunch&ampampquot at E3 this yr extremely small has been stated about it by Nintendo. It appears at this time the &ampampquotLaunch&ampampquot was just a way to deflect some of the publicity absent from Microsoft and Sony. One actuality is specific, If Microsoft do get the Xbox 360 onto the shelves prior to Xmas it will be this year’s greatest marketing Xmas present. So till you get your fingers on 1 of the consoles?.Question each and every element!

Mark Thompson ran an IT consultancy in London for a number of many years. He now reside in Spain and runs an amount of web sites this type of as NextGen Consoles and World of the Weird