Capello gives 'PlayStation Culture' the boot

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Capello, famous for his hard-line approach to discipline, has given the England squad a number of new rules to abide by under his management.

According to the Daily Mail, they include:

• A ban on the 'PlayStation culture'
• A ban on visitors, including agents and friends, from the team hotel in Hertfordshire
• Players must eat at the same table
• They have to be on time for meals
• No walking around in shorts and flip-flops. They must wear England track suits
• instead and suits and ties to games
• No mobile phones in public areas

"If Fabio Capello is that concerned about winning with England, he may have missed a trick by banning PlayStations," writes The Times' chief football correspondent, Martin Samuel.

"What happened to playing to your strengths? PlayStation was never the problem for England's footballers anyway. PlayStation, we're good at. If Steve McClaren could have found a way of challenging Croatia to a game of Donkey Kong, he might have stood a chance. No gadgets, Fabio? Big mistake. It is the football that needs banning. That is what baffles us."

Last year Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp said that 'Xbox culture' was damaging football, while West Ham goalkeeper Rob Green said that England's footballing failures were down to gaming. Maybe Green will get a call up to Capello's second England squad if the manager gets wind of his feelings on the matter.

Capello began his England tenure with a two-one victory over Switzerland at Wembley in a friendly match on Wednesday night, so we'll give him the benefit of the doubt for now.

[ElRazur]

**** capello. May the playstation (culture) live long.

[No_one_in_particular]

How about just stop throwing thousands of pounds at every footy player and actually give them in an incentive to work for their position. I mean, who could really be that bothered being sat on the bench week-in week-out with your pay-slip been 5 figure sums ?

[JKKDARK]

I agree with Capello. PlayStation (PlayStation 3 mainly) are damaging the football association.

It is a nice decision for the England squad, they should play real systems like Xbox 360

[Accordion]

I agree with Capello. PlayStation (PlayStation 3 mainly) are damaging the football association.

It is a nice decision for the England squad, they should play real systems like Xbox 360

you do know that "playstation culture" is the reason the 360 and Wii exist… right?

[JKKDARK]

you do know that "playstation culture" is the reason the 360 and Wii exist… right?

No.

Wii culture exists because there were Gamecube, Nintendo 64, SNES, NES cultures. Before Sony.

[F9zDark]

No.

Wii culture exists because there were Gamecube, Nintendo 64, SNES, NES cultures. Before Sony.

No, Wii culture exists because Nintendo was desperate to try and reclaim their position as Number 1 (which they haven't had since the SNES) so they decided to make the cheapest, least advanced console, and market it to the demographic that hasn't been touched by console gaming EVER, and prayed to god that they came out on top.

The only reason Wii culture exists, is again, because the Playstation Brand has held the Number 1 position since 1995.

[JKKDARK]

No, Wii culture exists because Nintendo was desperate to try and reclaim their position as Number 1 (which they haven't had since the SNES) so they decided to make the cheapest, least advanced console, and market it to the demographic that hasn't been touched by console gaming EVER, and prayed to god that they came out on top.

The only reason Wii culture exists, is again, because the Playstation Brand has held the Number 1 position since 1995.

That's only a prediction, and I don't care. Without the PlayStation brand, Sega would get a bigger fanbase with its Saturn and you don't know what would happen in the sixth generation and later.

[jamotto]

He means ALL gaming devices, not just ones made by Sony.

[F9zDark]

That's only a prediction, and I don't care. Without the PlayStation brand, Sega would get a bigger fanbase with its Saturn and you don't know what would happen in the sixth generation and later.

Prediction? No its the truth. Both Sony and Microsoft took a gamble by making a true next generation console. Microsoft, however, succeeded in earning profits initially by using the cheapest of the cheap manufacturing principles and materials.

Nintendo, however, went all on the cheap, cheap hardware, cheap software, cheap peripherals (Wii-motes don't even have a built-in Lithium Ion battery... Why? Because of cost, plain and simple).

Nintendo did what they did because they knew if they didn't earn big bucks this generation, they wouldn't be around for the next generation. So rather than deliver a truly next-generation experience, which HD output, Dolby Digital Surround sound, comparable graphics, etc, they wanted to deliver the cheapest, easiest to get into experience, for the www.pogo.com "generation" of gamers (ie, everyone except a Hardcore gamer).

Its not a prediction, its fact. Because, why else would a company, who has continually revolutionized gaming with superior graphics and hardware, all of sudden, drop this mentality in favor of inferior hardware, inferior graphics, inferior control scheme?