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I firmly believe that we will get enough power for 3-4 years max, after that we will go to the cloud.
They should just make them modular. The box itself doesn't really need to change only the internals (cpu,gpu,ram). Just plugging in a faster GPU or more memory during a generational change would be a lot easier than buying a whole new box to get used to.
No, it was merely misunderstood.the ken kutaragi 10 year ps3 plan was a bad idea
Ah cloud gaming... can't wait for that one to die a fast death.
It's bad value for consumers. Montly subsription and no way to resell your games? Not to mention you don't actually own anything. Buy a console and games and you can still use it 10 years from now. Not to mention that eg a onlinve box costs you 100 and another 10 a month for the subsciption and you might as well buy a console.
And than we are not even talking about the fact you need a good connection (which a lot of people dont have, or the extra costs if you need to upgrade), that what I read from it most of the time games don't really look better than the current console games (and that is 7 year old hardware!) and why for the love of god would anybody want to look at shitty compressed images on his/her big screen tv?? Lets go back in time and look at shitty vhs quality imagaes instead of super crisp images.
Can't believe people are falling into that trap.
Ooh this soo much. If console gaming goes cloud im out.
I even had troubles with Steam at the start not really owning physical copies at the start but then the sales make it all worth and it is valve. Cloud gaming goes couple of steps beyond that where you dont even own the hardware or the software but only a box that can decrypt en decode a stream of data with probably shitty IQ.
No, it was merely misunderstood.
The problem is how people interpreted that statement. A ten-year life cycle simply means that it will continue to be manufactured and supported, and games will continue to be made for it, for ten years.
What it does not mean, and has never meant, was that it would be ten years before the next Playstation came out.
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Not sure what good exactly that will do anyone. A phone and a gaming-rig PC are many (well, ok then, many many many many) orders of magnitude apart in performance. They also differ completely in memory and storage capacity, input methods and so on. You can't actually develop any serious games that fit all of these diverse platforms - a hypothetical windows 8 console falling somewher in the middle of the spectrum, with yet another different set of hardware capabilities and input methods, with controllers and kinect being added to the existing mix.
So unless all you do are zynga and popcap type games, this won't actually help.
Internet will be rapidly improving with download/upload speeds gaining massive ground, alongside better latency and easier coverage thanks the 4g.
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Ah cloud gaming... can't wait for that one to die a fast death.
It's bad value for consumers. Montly subsription and no way to resell your games? Not to mention you don't actually own anything. Buy a console and games and you can still use it 10 years from now. Not to mention that eg a onlinve box costs you 100 and another 10 a month for the subsciption and you might as well buy a console.
And than we are not even talking about the fact you need a good connection (which a lot of people dont have, or the extra costs if you need to upgrade), that what I read from it most of the time games don't really look better than the current console games (and that is 7 year old hardware!) and why for the love of god would anybody want to look at shitty compressed images on his/her big screen tv?? Lets go back in time and look at shitty vhs quality imagaes instead of super crisp images.
Can't believe people are falling into that trap.
That's how I see it too. It gives games a much longer tail end in sales.
You launch on console and PC. Two to three later the same game will be running on tablets/portables, and one to two years later than that it will be running on phones.
3) GPU technology is progressing rapidly. If poor graphics technology is put into the PS4 and the next XBox it will become outdated extremely quickly. When I say poor, I mean anything less than the best single GPU that Nvidia or ATI has to offer today.
- Power usage. I think the systems will both consume around 300 to 350 watts each, and probably will not come in small cases. I think they may be slightly larger than the PS3 and the XBox 360, and will have complex cooling solutions.
A custom 680GTX at 20NM might only consume 200 watts and the other 150 watts could be divided up between two cell processors and everything else.
A custom 680GTX at 20NM might only consume 200 watts and the other 150 watts could be divided up between two cell processors and everything else.