Agreed

oh, i have no doubt about that ps4 will have more of everything, the question is though, will it pack enough of a punch so that wii u wont be getting good ports? the wii got gimped bastard versions, but will wii u suffer the same fate? or will it only have less impressive graphics?

Sony do have a lot to gain but it really depends on how forward thinking they can be. Part of the reason Microsoft have done so well this gen is because they pushed online early and had a very good infrastructure in place. We can see with the Wii why Ninetndo did so well. Sony ended up playing catch up in both areas whilst Blu-Ray and Cell didn't really give them the edge they hoped for. Unfortunately, I don't see much forward thinking in Vita, they seem to be clinging to old ideas instead of truly competing with tablets and mobiles.

It's not all negative though as I think the Gaikai aquisition is going to play a big part of their strategy next gen. Maybe not immediately but a couple of years in it should start taking off, especially if they can spread it to a wide range of devices.

I don't think there's going to be a PS4 until 2015.  I'm just posting it now because I want to have a record of it when I refer back to this post years from now.

i always thought 2014,it's interesting you think 2015 i wonder if any agree with you,i'd think microsoft could finish sony off if they put out a decent console a year before sony this time round

I think Nintendo have been a bit more intelligent with the WiiU so it should still get half-decent ports regardless of power. They've got a decent enough GPU with modern shader architecture that will make porting a bit easier. If the Wii had a GPU with programmable shaders then I think we would have seen more ports even with the mass power differences.

The main question will be if the CPU will be enough for said ports (this will effect certain genres more than others) or if the RAM will not detrimentally affect RAM heavy games that the likes of Bethesda will want to make. We've already had the lead programmer of 4A complain about the WiiU CPU and that's about game being developed for 360/PS3.

So I think it will depend on the developer and the way they set their engine up but it'll probably require developers a lot of work to port games to WiiU if rumours about the other consoles are to be believed. PS4 and Next Xbox on the other hand will likely share ports fairly easily if the X86 and RAM rumours prove to be true. 

Hard to put it better than this.

It is really the fault of blu-ray and the cell being so expensive originally that got sony in this position. I do think Yoshida overseeing things more is a step in the right direction because he is a lot more realistic then Kutaragi was. Sony are in the worst position by potentially being last to market again. But that can also give them an advantage as they learn what microsoft's strategy is going forward. They also have more expirience and have had two sluggish launches to learn from.

When companies talk of improvements in Next gen tech, graphics are but one key component of achieving these goals. People fail to look at the bigger picture. Improvements in tech will bring bigger worlds, more complex A.I. , Dynamic environments, higher and smoother average Frames/Second all the while improving the visual fidelity within these worlds.

Take for example a FPS game that dynamically changes the time of day to match your locale, or even the weather. U3 level graphics in a Skyrim sized world at 60FPS and full day/night cycle and weather cycle that mimmicks your locale. Yeah, and that's ideas off the top of my head. The possibilities would be enourmous.

Hehe, nice idea, but looking at DayZ mod, where you have just that, your local time, lot of folks were connecting to servers across the pond just to avoid always playing at night (which in that game can really be frustrating).