Exclusivity

Final Fantasy XIII is going to come out for both the PlayStation 3 and the XBOX 360, and some people are furious. My feeling is that what system a consenting adult plays a game on in the privacy of his own home is no one else’s business. That someone else is playing the game on a different console does not affect your ability to enjoy it on the console of your choice.

VGChartz says the Wii has now outsold the XBOX 360.

VGChartz says the Wii has now outsold the XBOX 360.

So much for being the underdog.

Connect your Xbox 360 Gamertag to Twitter

Connect your Xbox 360 Gamertag to Twitter | Duncan Mackenzie .Net

Very clever. Checks your XBOX status and updates Twitter when you’re playing a game.

Wii Power

Something (I think) very cool about the Wii is that it was designed to use very little power so that you can leave it on 24 hours a day, enabling it to download updates and demos when you’re not using it. According to Kotaku, the power consumption breaks down thusly:

Wii:

• In Standby Mode: 10w
• Idle @ Wii menu: 17w
• Running a Wii Game (Test with Zelda / Trauma Center) in 480i: 17w

[…]

XBOX 360:

• In Standby Mode: 2w
• Idle @ Dashboard: ~140w
• Running a Game: ~160w
• Playing a DVD: ~110w

Allowing for 3 hours of play a day, with either console left in standby for the other 21 hours, that means the Wii uses 261 watts while the 360 uses 522 watts, or exactly twice the power the Wii uses.

You pull, Wii push

You pull, Wii push

The Wii has a higher profit margin for retailers than the XBOX 360. Can you believe that stores only make $7 on an XBOX?!