| Sony PlayStation 3 | Microsoft Xbox 360 | Nintendo Revolution |
| Due | Spring 2006 | Fall 2005 | 2006 |
| Price | Not announced | Not announced | Not announced |
| Game format | Blu-ray high-capacity DVD discs | Dual-layer DVD discs | New format DVD-size optical disc |
| Other formats | Blu-ray high-definition video discs; music CDs; Super-Audio CDs; DVD video | DVD video; music CDs; Windows Media | DVD video |
| Plays oldgames? | Yes, original PlayStation and PS2 titles. | Unclear. Microsoft's official line: "Xbox 360 will be backward-compatible with the top-selling Xbox games." | Yes, GameCube discs, plus downloadable access to 20 years of titles from NES, SuperNES, N64. |
| Online connections | Wi-Fi wireless Internet networking; built-in Ethernet connection | Wi-Fi wireless networking; built-in Ethernet connection; basic Xbox Live online service included | Wi-Fi wireless networking, plus wireless gaming service Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection |
| Other technologies | Bluetooth wireless connections for up to seven controllers; USB 2.0 ports; wirelsss connection to PlayStation Portable | Upto four wireless controllers; USB 2.0 ports; can stream media frommusic portables, digital cameras and Windows PCs; can rip music to harddrive | Wireless controllers; USB 2.0 |
| Storage | Optional hard disk; slots for SD/ MemoryStick/ Compact Flash memory cards | 20GB detachable and upgradeable hard disk included; two memory-card slots. | SD memory cards |
| CPU | "Cell" processor, developed with IBM and Toshiba, 35 times more powerful than the one in PS2 | IBMPowerPC-based three-in-one processing chip, said to be 10 times aspowerful as the one in Xbox, with "the most advanced AI and physicsprocessing available" | Processorcode-named "Broadway," developed with IBM; Revolution claimed to be twoto three times more powerful than GameCube |
| Graphics | Full high-definition for up to two screens | Full high-definition | Not announced |
| Games in development | Devil May Cry 4 (Capcom); Tekken (Namco); Fifth Phantom Saga (Sega); Killing Day (Ubisoft); MotorStorm (Evolution) | Call of Duty 2 (Activision); Quake 4 (id); Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06 (EA); Perfect Dark: Zero (Microsoft) |