The gaming industry moves fast. The Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 original style consoles are old to us gamers now. It’s all about the new style 250GB Xbox 360, and the super slim Playstation 3. However it would seem that the next generation of these consoles will be with us as late as 2014. But is this too early?
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While the Wii U introduced some new and exciting features, People are still wanting that extra boost in power to be able to play grander games. It's not so much that the graphics will be that much better, although native 1080p/60fps would be much appreciated. But the increase in power will allow for larger scale games with bigger environments, more physics being handled and better effects and lighting.
However, since the Wii U does not double or triple the power of the existing consoles, an argument can be made by the manufacturers that there is no real rush to get the next gen machines out. Since the games that the 360 and PS3 will put out can be comparable to what the Wii U will be able to handle, They can make the argument that now is not the time.
I am still sure we will see at least one of the consoles by early 2014 at the latest. More likely 2013 holiday season.
It's easy to be impressed with something when you don't what is actually possible.
What would Red Dead Redemption look like with 4gb ram and a new gpu/cpu? I can't wait to see next gen batman!
That's just my opinion however, and if you don't see the benefit in anything I have mentioned, then so be it.
Could you imagine putting up an Xbox 360 launch title like Gun against a Wii U launch game like Assassin's Creed 3?
Give the Wii U some time and we know it will only get better. It'll just depend on how significantly more powerful the other two next-gen machines will be to determine if the Wii U will hold up. But I think with the Nintendo 1st party titles finally appearing in HD, we should be in for a real treat regardless.
The way I see it is this , It's very Simple.
Nintendo isn't interested in Pushing tech TOOO far at the expense of their own company Cough Ps3 Cough. They probably think Sony are retarded for selling the PS3 at a $200 loss , that's just not plausable for Nintendo.
It looks like Nintendo is thinking ''as long as we can demonstrate a clear leap in graphics albeit a smaller one than competition and add in some innovative new ways to play , And make it as good as possible without losing money on the device.
Rge 3DS for example demonstrates a clear graphical leap over the PSP and is 3D , has two screens , Gyroscope , AR etc.
Resident evil on 3DS destorys the PsP's graphics , but not quite as much as the vita destroys the PSP' graphics.
The wiiu is to ps3 what the 3S is to PSP. A clear generation ahead.
I'd say the cloud will start helping out. I hope they don't stream the entire game but instead just use the cloud to run the physics, animations, and etc. so we want notice latency because technically we would still be running the game locally. If that's possible to do that is.
Either way it's time for next gen. It's also time for every game to run at 1080p at 60fps. I hate 30fps that's why I play CoD honestly. Far Cry 3 is an amazing game but the low frame rate and screen tearing drive me crazy. All this want exist next gen. So all I can say is yea we're ready for next gen we've been ready for quite some time.
And that is exactly why there needs to be next-gen right now. The current gen is just maxed out.
Yep that is pretty much what I was trying to get across with this article.
New consoles are needed and Assassins creed 3 is a perfect example of why. People who say last of us could argue otherwise forget that the game is using uncharted's engine; I don't think it will look that much better than uncharted. I don't know about Beyond because it looks freakin awesome.
We need new consoles for game play, graphics, and everything between.
Agreed PS4 for release Dec 2013...but IMO Sony shouldn't waste too much resources on Vita individually, but should instead market both PS3/Vita cross play functionality to counter the Wii U casual market.
With the PS4 looming and PS3 still relevant...I can't see how Sony can afford what you're suggesting.
Sadly, Vita missed the boat...Sony should have marketed the hell out of this powerful device day one, instead of this 'Damage Limitation' system they have in place. It's still too early to call the Vita's fate, but it stinks of PSP failures to capture significant third party support.
Many will probably disagree, but I always thought after PSP, Sony should have left the portable market and concentrated on making the PlayStation games catalogue available to as many devices as possible. Given that tablets/smart phones have now exceeded or at least on par with Vita technically....
Vita was very short sighted of Sony....
PS3 - out since 2006
So no, it isn't too early.
If the PS4 comes out at Christmas, the PS3 will be 7 years old, and when the next Xbox comes out at Christmas the 360 will be 8 years old. Assuming they do release at Christmas of course.
NO. No no no no no nooooooooo.
Yes the consoles are still capable of nice graphics (TLOU, MGSGZ), its not just about graphics it's about performance I mean the fact that most games this gen struggle with maintaining 30fps in basic HD justifies that, I mean the latter was supposed to be a standard for this gen
As for people keep harping on it won't as big a jump from the ps2-ps3 okay fine, but at the same time it won't be a micro jump like the gamecube to the wii.
It's 7-8 years of graphics cards and cpu advancements with a very significant increase in the amount of available ram. Yes it wont have a $600 gpu in it, but it wont have a similar low end underclocked cheapass pos chip like the one nintendo put in the wiiu.
Which wasn't really a big talking point until the wiiu was ripped apart during a teardown and it's components documented.
About a next gen zelda game like the e3 trailer from 2-3 yrs ago, yes it looked sweet but you nintendo guys need to be a little more reasonable in regards to your expectations.
This is nintendo we are talking about here not ms or sony, they are known for pushing out beautifully detailed graphical games.
Nintendo makes highly stylised games, not realistic looking games typically, likely the best looking detailed game will be either metroid or zelda.
When nintendo does finally show actual game footage of a next gen mario, zelda you can't discuss it's graphics only the gameplay. Since nintendo fans always like to remind us only graphics whores care about the graphics.
its beyond time for new consoles, they cannot come out soon enough
heck we needed new consoles for battlefield 3, playing with only 11 other people on your team and the awful screen tears, the slowdown, the jaggies......personally, even though i bought it on 360 just to play with my little cousins(own it on pc day one) it was near unplayable, the lag and slowdown were the worst