Nintendo and Sony Underwhelm

[Grecco]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/arts/16games.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin

Microsoft does not. Bow down to the NY Times. /bow.

[duckman2000]

They interviewed Brian Crescente? The end of everything is, in fact, approaching.

Currently, most console games do not allow more than 40 or 60 players to compete at once.

Actually, most console games never even approach even those numbers.

Who writes this crap?

[pilonv1]

Most don't even approach 1/3 of those numbers.

[BlueTsunami]

40 to 60 players? Someone is comparing consoles to PCs

[Tauntaun]

The company did, however, exhibit a high level of artistic and technical ambition in playing a trailer from a new game in the works called MAG, for Massive Action Game. MAG is meant to allow up to 256 players to simultaneously occupy one continuous modern-combat battlefield. Currently, most console games do not allow more than 40 or 60 players to compete at once

SMH. 

[Crushed]

[laesperanzapaz]

NYT

brian crecente

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