Wow! This guy can tell the future... Well, me too. Whoever wrote this story will die on the day ps3 come out :D DAmn I'm one good fortune teller.

No I think he has wise comment , Dx10 will comeout for next year many gamer will build their monster machine and computer will games future proof for games and PS3 is 2005 technology compare DX10 is 2007 technology

Its ironic that an EX-ATARI chief is saying this.

Traditionally Atari didn't do good in Playstation platform, and their games weren't even accepted in Asia-Pacific region, which represent the greatest market segment in the gaming industry. I can only see a failure dog Atair behind Sony how trying to sat someting untrue.

May be Mr. Nolan Bushnell should learn from "How Sony success" from taking the whole market from Nitendo and Sega, which also did have better developing tools than both PS1 and PS2.

If he can't able to drive the Cell processor due to his poor programming ability, pls shut up. All IBM next generation server is based on Cell. I also don't think developer will drop IBM to take Dell.

DirectX is not "future proof". Ever tried to run a game from 6-9 years ago on a new computer? Try playing a PS1 game on a PS2. No effort needed. Hence why PS3 will do well. The PS1 and PS2 was pretty expensive in it's day, but using the PS2 as the cheaper model...the PS3 could phase in slowly.

I'm still amazed at what they can squeeze out of the PS2. Some of the newer games are quite attractive.

Funny he mentioned the "high price of the PS3" as one of the main reasons it's going to fail. I immediately went to the inflation calculator and ran some numbers:

What cost $250 in 1977 would cost $811.25 in 2005.

Also, if you were to buy exactly the same products in 2005 and 1977,
they would cost you $250 and $77.04 respectively.

Gee...what thing cost $250 in 1977...wait a second...the Atari 2600? More expensive than the ps3?

It's wrong to say thing like this when the Ps3 is not currently out in the market. I mean come on, people are already waiting at BestBuy for more than a week already... And I'm sorry for the bad joke i made earlier lol. Silly me XD.

This the same bashing that the PS2 got at its launch, "Too difficult to program." It takes time for developers to get use to the machine. First batch of PS2 games pale in comparison with current titles, especially with the first few titles with "jaggies", another complaint developers had. The comment "no more than 300 thousand of users would adopt the PlayStation 3 in the U.S." is foolish. There is going to be approx. 400,000 units at lauch and I will suprised if they last more than 2-3 days.

just wondering how much did m$ pay him?

Temme mr Nutshell, how much did Nintendo and M'zsoft payed you to bad mouth sony, you may be the founder of Atari but that doesnt mean you can get away after pulling crap like this. go cash the check MS just sent you. Sellout!

While the PS3 probably won't be a failure (opposed to what the ATARI guy thinks) i think he has a point.

1. Xbox 360 is a strong competitor (due to price and already available titles and announced titles)

2. Playstation 3 is much more difficult to program (there might be parts of an enigne that can profit from multithreading easily but in the end parallelization is difficult)

In the end I think Microsoft's way to use available and solid technology was cleverer.


@Eclipsed Aurora
The Cell might be a great processor for servers but that doesn't
make it a good "gaming processor".

Umm... Who is Mr. Nutshell??

Of course this guy thinks Sony will fail. It was Sony that put HIM out of business! Think someone is a little bitter? I think so....

Some good points, but honestly Im not taking serius this guy... common I mean Atari? they should be the king of video game monopoly, and what are they know.. a mediocre publisher.