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...Ferrari when a Porsche (the 360) or Mazda (the Wii) may work fine for many families. Game publishers are increasingly going to multiplatform strategies for big titles, as production costs have soared and the market has splintered along geographic lines: Nintendo dominates Japan, Sony fares well in Europe and Microsoft racks up its strongest sales in North America. That means fewer must-have titles for one platform, an ominous sign for Sony with the priciest box on the shelves. Moreover, games such as Brain Age and Guitar Hero, which attract the mainstream audience, often don't require the most advanced...
...retail, Sony may soon find itself in a price war with Microsoft. Given its year head start, Microsoft could afford to cut prices on the 360 by up to $100 this spring. Xbox Live, the online service, has proved popular with gamers-and Microsoft could be close to announcing movie downloads for it, a possible killer app. Sony has similar aspirations for its online offering, which is getting a major upgrade with the PS3, though for now it's playing catch...
...720p" high-def spec, which means each widescreen frame will have a pixel resolution of 1,280 x 720. Where possible, the files will include a Dolby Digital 5.1 surround-sound track. The files will take 6 or 7 hours to download over a cable broadband connection, according to Microsoft. However, given the wide variety of household Internet connections, your own experience may be better or worse. By comparison, the standard-definition feature-length films currently available on Apple's iTunes Store are generally just under 1.5GB in size...
...movies and TV shows will only be playable on Xbox 360 consoles. The service will not be available to owners of the first Xbox console, nor will the video downloads be accessible to PCs, even if your Xbox 360 is networked to your PC to share other video content. Microsoft also confirmed that the purchases will not be compatible with its upcoming Zune media player, which will have its own Internet-based retail service for music downloads...
...Many companies including Microsoft competitors Apple, Amazon.com and Google are getting into the video distribution business. Microsoft's ace is that the Xbox 360 is already connected to the TV, a hurdle others try to overcome by marketing multimedia set-top boxes or creating unwieldy hardware partnerships. Microsoft expects the number of Xbox 360 consoles to number 10 million by Jan. 1, the lion's share of which will likely be connected to the Xbox Live network. It's tough to declare a winner with so many services in such early forms, but it's a safe bet that Microsoft...