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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 2823946" data-attributes="member: 8863">Well, all this hardware talk means very little to me, since I have no idea what any of it means. I'm sure I'm not alone, and there are many people who aren't going to pay attention to such stats.  However, I have my impressions of what the different companies are going for, though the impressions may themselves be wrong.Sony seems to be taking a "bigger is better" approach.  Bigger technical capabilties like graphics and processing, bigger storage space, the whole Blu-Ray drive (which is supposed to have more storage space than HD-DVD), and the ridiculously high retail price. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />   They have the advantage of backwards compatibility, but that's not as strong as it was with PS2, because at the time, Xbox did not have games to be backwards compatible with, and GC as a disc system couldn't be backwards compatible with cartrige games (unless Nintendo put in a port for carts). They way I understand, each of these systems is supposed to be backwards compatible which the older consoles (I might be wrong).  But if programming for the console is difficult, that could hurt it over the long run.  There's also the whole Blu-Ray issue, if Blu-Ray tanks that could also hurt the console.Microsoft looks like it's going for the online market.  People might think it's a joke now, but I think Microsoft thinks it may take off eventually and is trying to take an early lead as possible.  It doesn't really surprise me, because over the last 10 years or so, Microsoft has largely been focusing on expanding onto the Internet, which makes sense unless you're a rabid Microsoft hater who thinks their corporate headquarters is a suburb of hell.  They seem to be planning on staying in the market over the long term.  Mircosoft's weakness is that they're not really popular in Japan, but I suspect they may realize that and are focusing on the international market in general.Nintendo has been taking it hard in the market the last 10 years, and it seems right now they're not focusing on the tech issues that the average consumer has no clue about, but rather trying to market a fun and inexpensive system that is easy to learn and play.  The biggest weakness they seem to have right now is the possiblity of not having enough third party support.  That depends on how easy the Wii will be to develop for, and if third party developers can come up with good and different game concepts that work great on Wii, but not so good on the other systems.</blockquote>

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