Daily Archives: August 23, 2006

Austin Game Conference

Just a quick note to say that I’ll be moderating a couple of panels at the upcoming Austin Game Conference. If you’ll be there and want to meet up, let me know.

Yankee Group, Dissected

Last week, Yankee Group predicted that the PS3 would eventually beat the Xbox 360 (though not by much), and that the Wii would perform quite poorly. I initially disregarded the analysis as thoughtless and resolved to ignore it entirely. That was unfair of me. The analysis is not thoughtless (though I believe it’s mostly incorrect), and dissecting it may prove useful, insofar as it sheds light on common misconceptions that could hurt developers and publishers.

Let’s start with the PS3 vs Xbox:

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