Sony puts ball in Microsoft's court, asks why go first when competitor can look at your specs and do better

Aye, if this really is their plan, they should shut up about it >_>

Specs don't mean a thing to average consumers. What matters is available harware packages and price points along with a good title lineup and well planned launch date. If either system comes out with a hefty price tag they will struggle in tgis sluggish U.S. economy. So who ever fires first better get it right

Am I the only one that thinks that controllers need a change? I love the 360 and outside the dpad find it far superior to Sonys controller which hasn't changed outside motion for years but controllers are vastly inferior to keyboard and mouse but keyboard and mouse aren't exactly the most user friendly.

The design prototypes microsoft showed where extremely interesting and Valve talking about a controller that expands upon keyboard and mouse is exciting, these controllers need change.

TBH the leak isn't verified so this could be just an unreliable source aimed at drawing Microsoft out into revealing their specs before Sony releases the official ones.

To the average user though, this won't matter. Most people will only care about how the game runs and what it looks like, not what is in the average console.

Do they not pay attention when Nintendo outsells both of them with the weakest tech?

Specs really don't matter. There is like one or two console exclusives that anyone cares about each year, the rest are multiplatform. Multiplatform games will be designed to work on both consoles and will be roughly the same in effeciency.

After the near flop of the PS3 with its higher specs that really didn't make a difference, high price point, and poor launch exclusives. I can assure you that waiting to charge more for your product is a bad idea.

quote Mnmfan

The PS2 dominated over Xbox yet when the 360 arrived almost a full year before the PS3 most people jumped ship over to Xbox 360 purely because they wanted a next gen machine. The PS3 has been playing catch up ever since.
Consumers don't care about specs, they just want the newest tech.

Hmm I waited a while before buying a console this generation. I am a fan of RPG's so I got the PS3 without thinking about it, only to find that 6 months in there wasn't a single one on the horizon but FF13 (which was multiplatform) while the 360 had Blue Dragon and Mass Effect with Lost Oddessy on the way?

I traded my PS3 in for a 360 a few months after buying it. It had nothing to do with specs and everything to do with the PS3 having a terrible gaming selection.

Oh-ho, Kaz. Feeling edgy, aren't we?