The NY Times Says Xbox 360 is Powered by Cell Processor
by Patrick Steen on December 8, 2007 at 7:46 pm
It’s like your Grandmother trying to talk about the Pussycat Dolls.
How many gaming facts can you get wrong in one article? The New York Times says five. Five relatively well known gaming facts were right muddled up governor! The New York Times needed to get things straight, and it took them a week to do so.
Last Friday the New York Times discussed “essential hardware”, which was fine until reaching the joy that was the gaming section of this piece. It was full to the brim with factual errors that’ll make you cringe.
First up is Gran Turismo 5. According to the New York Times this game has already been released and is a worldwide bestseller for the Playstation 3. If only it had been released, but GT5:Prologue is only just reaching those in Japan.
Moreover, the author wrote with vigour that the Playstation 3 was available for a low price of $299. We wish! Does this inaccuracy reflect on the position of the Playstation 3 in the US psyche? No, it just shows the Time’s disinterest in video games. A theory supported by their following errors.
Halo 3 is not the first Halo outing on the Xbox 360, according to the Times. Since the original Halo games are playable on the Xbox 360 through backwards compatibility, they are apparently Xbox 360 games. At least they knew the game was out, and could justify writing about it being a best seller.
But wait, the New York Times can top this all with the piece de resistance: the Xbox 360 is powered by Cell. Aye, Sony has joined with Microsoft to put Ken Kutaragi’s brain child into the Xbox 360. That’s one of the Playstation3’s selling points, no wonder the Xbox 360 is trouncing it in the US.
Here’s the New York Time’s full correction in all its innocent glory, posted on the 4th December:
An article in Business Day on Friday about favorite gadgets of executives referred incorrectly to the video game Gran Turismo 5. It has not yet been released, and thus is not a best-selling game. The article also referred imprecisely to the game Halo 3. It is the first game in the Halo series designed for the Xbox 360; the earlier games, though playable on the Xbox 360, were designed for the original Xbox. The chip in the Xbox 360 also was misidentified. It has a Xenon chip, not a Cell processor. And the article also misstated the price of the Sony PlayStation 3. The PlayStation 3 starts at $399, not $299.
Bless. I said it’s like your Grandmother attempting to talk about the Pussycat Dolls; it’s also reminiscent of the current Prime Minister of Great Britain name dropping the Arctic Monkeys. Cringe.
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on December 9, 2007 9:22 pm
Great site.
on December 10, 2007 2:08 pm
Why thank you young Biggs.
on December 11, 2007 1:43 am
Since when has the New York Times ever been accurate in anything they report? I think it may have been when William Randolph Hearst was born, but I could be wrong.
That rag is so riddled with idiots and people with political agendas, that competent and objective reporting is a foreign concept to them. Anyone who takes that rag seriously, will believe anything.
No wonder their subscriber-ship is falling like Gerald Ford in a ball bearing factory.
on December 12, 2007 7:16 pm
Well, it could’ve been worse. At least they didn’t tell the world the Chief was the secret playable character in “Super Smash Bros. Brawl”.
Better not tell the Times that. That little nugget of “information” might get a front-page treatment.