Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Hats off to Nintendo. The Wii is an amazing demonstration of what an
innovative company can do with limited processing power, while
providing a product for the budget conscious games consumer.
However, discounting the cheap Blu-ray player
factor - and it will be a factor for non-gamers going forward -
comments of a hard core gamer over on the Cinema Blend site in response
to a very pro-Wii article are instructive: "i have all 3 systems. after
i beat zelda, I havent touched the smallest console......To me after 5
weeks with a ps3, i would have to say that the ps3 is far from
finished. It has been released in a premature stage. I also believe
this was sony's scheme. MAKE THE PS3 EXTREMELY POWERFUL but not from
launch.. As time goes by we will see what the coders can really do."
The poster also had some interesting thoughts on Xbox 360 which,
despite a full 12 months with the new generation consoles market to
itself, has been unable to build an unbridgeable lead: "360 has plenty
of games which is a plus.... but theyre mostly remakes of xbox games
with new lighting and bigger textures."
The parallels between the Nintendo and Sony new generation consoles war
and a title fight seem appropriate. Sony, the reigning champ for the
past 10 years in the home consoles space, has put forward a lumbering
heavyweight in the PS3. Nintendo, challenging to regain its long lost
mantle, has put forward a sprightly middleweight with an innovative new
armoury of blows in the Wii.
Naturally, in the early rounds the middleweight is going to duck and
weave and outjab and inflict some damage on the heavyweight. However,
there is still a doubt as to whether the middleweight has enough firepower
to go the distance with the heavyweight. That said, the heavyweight has
yet to land a telling blow. Come March, if the heavyweight is still
struggling, and the middleweight has some more tricks up its sleeve, we
may see an upset.
David Bass
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