All Three Next-Gen Consoles at e3 2005

Word is now out that, in all likelyhood, all three next generation consoles will be displayed in some form at this year's e3. Nintendo's Revolution has been rumoured to be making an appearance for a while. Yesterday Sony announced the PS3 would be available in playable form at the convention, and Microsoft was soon to follow regarding the Xbox Next. Game on?

No news is good news

[SFalcon]

Word is not out that, in all likelyhood, all three next generation consoles will be displayed in some form at this year's e3. Good to know there's no updates on the matter, thanks!

All join in...

[Anonymous Coward]

all hail the Revolution!

From The Butt-Spell-Checker-Sad-Tt-Wad-Okay! Dept

[American AC in Paris]

Word is not out that, in all likelyhood, all three next generation consoles will be displayed in some form at this year's e3.

Well, it is now.

Re:Vision

[Anonymous Coward]

What if all the cell processors unite and form a giant A.I. that acts like a super-intelligent penguin, eating all our fish so that the oceans shrink and then there will be no deep end any more. NO DEEP END.

*anonymity to fend off pending uber-penguin attack

but wait..

[kevinx]

comeon, those are just vaporware.. I'm holding out for the phantom.

Re:Vision

[Anonymous Coward]

I for one would like to be the first to welcome our super-intelligent fish-eating, ocean-shrinking, no deep end making, cell processor based, uber-penguin overlords.

I enjoy it personally

[buffer-overflowed]

I'll flame people. They'll flame me. We'll get into a how long have you been gaming virtual penis measuring contest. We'll all enjoy it and point at each other and laugh. And no opinions will be swayed.

God himself could descend down upon gaming forums populated entirely by evangelicals in console launch years and declare his preference, backed up by Jesus and the holy ghost, and this is still how it would happen.

Three?

[wetdogjp]

Wait, only three consoles? The Phantom is going to be there, right? I mean, c'mon, it's 2005.

Re:New Input Scheme, Save Us Nintendo!

[decipher_saint]

You want my Power Glove?

Re:I enjoy it personally

[Anonymous Coward]

God himself could descend down upon gaming forums populated entirely by evangelicals in console launch years and declare his preference, backed up by Jesus and the holy ghost, and this is still how it would happen.

WCWJP (What Console Would Jesus Play?)

Re:XBox Next?

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't know where you get that from. As a developer, I actually have an XBox NeXT directly in front of me, arrived today in the mail.

It's basically a large black box made out of a magnesium alloy. It has a cool optical drive for the games, not a standard DVD or CD player, but a rewritable drive.

The UI is pretty slick too, as you'd expect from a PowerPC inspired system, it seems to be like a stripped down Mac OS X. Menus appear in a column on the left, the dock is on the right and looks more like, I don't know, maybe the WindowMaker dock for WindowMaker on Unix. Oh, there's a cool Unix-like shell in there too. I'm not sure how much of this will be in the final version though.

And there's a complete encyclopedia built into the system too.

The machine doesn't have any Microsoft/XBox logos on it, I guess they want to steer clear of the dreaded XBox label because it ended up being such a marketing disaster, just a cool color logo like a cube with the letters N, E, X and T on it.

Pretty cool stuff. This is going to change gaming as we know it.

Don't blame me

[logic hack]

I'm rooting for Dreamcast.

Re:I enjoy it personally

[mbbac]

Especially once Zeus & Ra show up.

Re:I enjoy it personally

[Wintermute__]

Xbox Next: Heget (son of Ra. You mean you've never heard of him?)

PS 3: Hercules (son of Zeus ... in roman mythology anyway. Has name recognition though)

Revolution: Jesus (completing Soul Calibur 2's tradition of giving the best character to Nintendo. Who wouldn't want to play as Jesus, putting the smackdown on the others left and right?)

Oh, come on.. You know those other guys would absolutely crucify him!

Sorry, had to be done..

ObSimp

[Dirtside]

and Microsoft was soon to follow regarding the Xbox Next

Sure, the X-Box looks impressive, but I predict that the X-Box Next will be twice as powerful, ten thousand times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own one.

(Thanks, Simpsons [snpp.com]!)

Re:Vision

[RichardX]

We just summon Godzilla and watch them battle it out. ..Then of course, we're left with the problem of a rampaging Godzilla, so we summon Cthulu to take on Godzilla...

Then we.. uh.. Is it just me, or is there something wrong with the angles in this room?

Re:I enjoy it personally

[Anonymous Coward]

that's because god doesn't know how to make an entrance anymore... Now if bolts of lightning start smoting everyone who supports/owns inferior console X's houses., destroying all electronic devices, and making a smoky message saying 'buy console Y' and the people who don't heed the word all burst into flames well, then people would take God seriously, but really, he has no balls, all him and jesus would do is say 'love me, love console y' and then get sucker punched by the deities with balls...