PlayStation 3 vs Xbox 360: it’s not about gaming anymore

The confrontation between PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 hasn’t got much to do with games anymore… games have ended up somewhere at the conflict’s periphery.

Both Sony and Microsoft dwell on their consoles’ multimedia characteristics, their family home entertainment centre, which is clearly pointed out by the fact that caused PlayStation’s 3 delay: the Blu-Ray standard hasn’t been finished. On the other hand, Microsoft announced a few months ago that it will make available a HD-DVD external unit, an add-on for Xbox 360.

Second of all, online communities became one of the game’s stakes. Sony is ready to respond to Xbox Live community – one of the initiatives that boosted Microsoft on the console market’s second place – by coming up PlayStation Network Platform, a service to be launched in the same time with PlayStation 3.

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