Tuesday, February 26, 2013

The console war has changed: can the PS4 make gaming easy again?

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Seven years ago, Nintendo made a crazy bet. With the Nintendo Wii, the company decided not to compete with the then-upcoming Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 when it came to gaming graphics. Instead, Nintendo made the console experience more accessible, and kept the price tag hundreds of dollars cheaper than the competition. The result: record sales, record profits, and an expansion of the gaming audience unlike any in history.


How can Sony impress anyone at a price they'll pay?


With the PlayStation 4, Sony is desperate to pull a similar trick — to redefine what the console means while actually profiting on hardware sales. Only in 2013, that's harder than ever before: every human being who carries a smartphone already has an incredibly...


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