Turns out our industry might be more predictable than we think, with the Xbox 360 and PS3 race sounding oddly familiar.

Ex Microsoft Entertainment and Devices Division head Robbie Bach believes the Xbox 360 benfited PlayStation 3?s struggles.

Without the "high-res texture pack" Battlefield 3 on the Xbox 360 looks ugly.

We posted the rumour yesterday that the father of the Xbox, J Allard, could be leaving Microsoft as part of a large scale shake up in the Entertainment and Devices division. Well that has now been confirmed even though he will retain an advisory role with the corporation. Another surprising announcement is that Robbie Back will also be leaving later …

While it may sound more like a dating sites tag line these numbers are coming out of the first annual Microsoft Open House in NYC. Robbie Bach has been chatting about the Xbox 360 and has confirmed that there are now over 20 million Xbox Live members who have played in over 425 million online games. That’s a whole lot …

Shock, Shock, Horror, Horror, we have a story to prove that shows that Microsoft apparently knew about the defects in the Xbox 360 before its launch. While it may come as a surprise to many, it doesn't sound too crazy to think that MS would do something like this. According to reports on 1UP a report from VentureBeat's Dean Takahashi, who is the author of books such as Opening the Xbox and The Xbox 360 Uncloaked , has said that Microsoft knew about the issues the Xbox 360 was having before launch but refused to delay the release further in order to beat their competitors to the market. It looks as if the major issue came from Microsoft not only rushing the design process to get the console out first but also from the fact that once the major design was locked down, they continued to try and cram in a ton of last minute ideas, essentially making the console more and more fragile. President of Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices division, Robbie Bach thinks that being first out the door was still a good idea in the long run, saying that: "If you take the question of whether it was the right thing to try to be first, the answer to that is definitely yes," "It has given us a leg up in a number of places that are super important. It has given us a leg up with game developers. It has given us a leg up from an economics perspective. It helped us expand Xbox Live quickly. At a strategy level, if you asked if we wanted to be first again, I would say yes. It's easy for me to go back and say, if I knew what would transpire over the next two years, would I go back and do something different, I think that's an obvious answer. But the fact is, based on the data we had at the time and all the hard work we put into it, there was no way to see what actually happened." As you all know it has cost Microsoft over a billion US dollars to extend warranties for the RROD issues that many have experienced with their consoles, so Mr. Bach must really think that it was well worth it to have their console out first. Although he does admit that they would have done things differently had they known all that they know now. Good for you, Microsoft. I am glad that your business is doing well but what about all the people that have experienced tons of issues and inconveniences due to your wonderful decision.