My favorite punch being thrown is from Sean Malstrom:

"Come on guys. Get with the present. The Era of Console War is over. Nintendo has known that for a long while. Microsoft knows it. Only Sony, like the stupid kid, still believes in ‘Console War’."

Malstrom explains earlier in the same article:

In the old days, game consoles competed against one another directly. One game console would tout its ‘better graphics’ and ‘blast processing’ to be better than the other console. You could call these times the Era of Console War.

Now, we are in an Era of Disruption. What does that mean? It means there will not be direct competition unless the company is insanely stupid. Competition will be asymmetric. Currently, I’m seeing our old journalist buddies try to puff up the release of Move or Kinect into a ‘Motion Control War’. Or we’re seeing Google or Apple be a new ‘Console War’ participant. This would be amusing if it wasn’t so sad.

Source: http://seanmalstrom.wordpress.com/2010/09/04/the-era-of-console-war-is-over-we-are-in-the-era-of-disruption/

Does anyone else get the feeling that if Nintendo just cut the price of the Wii to sub 100 bucks then all Microsofts and Sony's, quite frankly childish, marketing will be for nothing.

You point the glowing ball in the direction of the disc, and hey presto...

Both Sony and Microsoft's PR likes to do this trash the competition advertisements. Personally, I dislike this approach and I am reluctant to buy products advertised this way. The humour escapes me and I think they do more harm than good as the obvious bias seems to be in place to hide some major flaws.

Fortunately to Sony, I brought my PS3 before reading the add.

there's a thread in the nintendo forum for crap from this guy. please leave it there