Next Generation Games Consoles - Separating Fact From Fiction
Over the next 18 months the 3 giants of the Games Console world
will be battling it out in stores and homes across Europe,
America and Asia for the title of the world greatest Games
Console. The stakes are high in this multi billion dollar
business, not just for the console sales but for the games sales
that go along side it. Since the launch announcements of all 3
consoles in May at the E3 conference in LA. The 3 combatants
have been vying for the millions of column inches that have been
written about the Next Generation Consoles. Each Press release
has been hotly followed by another press release from a rival
company so much so that extracting the facts from all the hype
has been nearly impossible. At the launch press conferences
Microsoft boasted that the Xbox 360 could do
9-billion-dot-product-operations per second. Sony then came out
and said that the PS3 could do 51-billion-dot-product-operations
per second however Sony had combined the CPU and GPU performance
numbers whilst Microsoft only reported its CPU performance
number. When the consumer is up against this sort of publicity
blizzard it is best not to believe a thing until you can check
the facts for yourself.
So what do we know?
Well for the Xbox 360 and the Sony Playstation 3 we have lots of
lists of hardware and specifications which actually don