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I predict that both Microsoft and Sony will release new consoles with costs ranging from $400-$500 while at the same time introducing further price cuts for the PS3/360.
This will have the double effect of targetting both the price conscious consumer and casuals as well as the tech enthusiasts and loyalists.

Nintendo will still do ok but their success will be far more modest this time round.



 

 

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ethomaz said:
Sony and Microsoft already have a console on pair with Wii U... so why are they release another?

No sense... the PS4/720 will be a lot better than current gen... I can see 10x with the latest rumors.

Ok, everybody thinks they are goint to be a trillion times more powerful, now play along... What do you think can happen if they are just on par or slightly better than the Wii U? The world would end? cat and dogs living together? hell will freeze over? Nintendo will win? average Joe will not notice? innovation will come as Kinect 2.0 and next Move?

This is an imagination exercise, go wild and have fun.



flagstaad said:

Ok, everybody thinks they are goint to be a trillion times more powerful, now play along... What do you think can happen if they are just on par or slightly better than the Wii U? The world would end? cat and dogs living together? hell will freeze over? Nintendo will win? average Joe will not notice? innovation will come as Kinect 2.0 and next Move?

This is an imagination exercise, go wild and have fun.

Half of the gamers buyers this gen will not buy a new hardware.

PS4 + 720 + Wii U will do less than 100 million units together.



Nirvana_Nut85 said:
NobleTeam360 said:
I extremely doubt it. The 720 and PS4 will probably be 5 to 10 times more powerful than the Wii U.


Highly doubtful. At best were looking at 2-4 times more powerful if we go by the speculated rumours for each system.


Lies all lies it has to be a lie. 



ethomaz said:

flagstaad said:

Ok, everybody thinks they are goint to be a trillion times more powerful, now play along... What do you think can happen if they are just on par or slightly better than the Wii U? The world would end? cat and dogs living together? hell will freeze over? Nintendo will win? average Joe will not notice? innovation will come as Kinect 2.0 and next Move?

This is an imagination exercise, go wild and have fun.

Half of the gamers buyers this gen will not buy a new hardware.

PS4 + 720 + Wii U will do less than 100 million units together.

I'm not sure if I read this correctly... You think the whole home console market will skrink to less than 100m units in the 8th gen?



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on par?...not gonna happen.



DanneSandin said:

I'm not sure if I read this correctly... You think the whole home console market will skrink to less than 100m units in the 8th gen?

If the PS4 and 720 have the same power than Wii U/PS3/360??? I'm sure if not more.



flagstaad said:
ethomaz said:
Sony and Microsoft already have a console on pair with Wii U... so why are they release another?

No sense... the PS4/720 will be a lot better than current gen... I can see 10x with the latest rumors.

Ok, everybody thinks they are goint to be a trillion times more powerful, now play along... What do you think can happen if they are just on par or slightly better than the Wii U? The world would end? cat and dogs living together? hell will freeze over? Nintendo will win? average Joe will not notice? innovation will come as Kinect 2.0 and next Move?

This is an imagination exercise, go wild and have fun.

Nintendo would win and many gamers would migrate to PC. I would be one of them.





 

 

Branko2166 said:

Nintendo would win and many gamers would migrate to PC. I would be one of them.

This...

Wii U: 60 million
PS4: 20 million
720: 20 million

All the others games migrated to handhelds, phones or PC.



HappySqurriel said:
I think people expecting a big jump in image quality from Sony and Microsoft are going to be disappointed ...

First off, neither Sony or Microsoft are going to be willing (or in Sony's case able) to take the same kind of losses with their next systems that they took with the PS3 and XBox 360. I could be wrong but I suspect that both Sony and Microsoft are going to have losses that are in the $50 to $100 range (or lower) rather than the $150 to $200+ that they had in the previous generation.

Secondly, I think both Sony and Microsoft will be looking to enhance gameplay using a new user-interface/controller (something like Kinect or a touch-screen controller), which will likely add $50 to $100 to the manufacturing cost of the system.

Finally, they will want to keep the price of the system to consumers at a reasonable level ($400) to encourage people to buy it.

When you add these three things together, compared to the XBox 360 at launch their next system has to have a $200+ reduction in manufacturing cost, and the next Playstation has to have a $400+ reduction in manufacturing cost compared to the PS3, which will translate into a very large step back in how advanced these systems are.

If the XBox 360 or PS3 were launched with similar constraints I would expect that they would have had about 1/4 or 1/2 their current processing power. At 480p these systems would be able to maintain the improvements people associate with these consoles, but at HD resolutions the visual improvement would be far more modest. In a similar fashion, at 720p the PS4 and "XBox 720" will likely have many visual improvements but will not be able to improve visuals signficiantly while rendering at 1080p@60fps

Say either of MS or Sony takes a $100 hit on every sold console (more likely that MS will/can do so) and has some sort of new interface controler that costs $50-100 and launches at $400, the actual cost for the console would be somewhere around $400-450 - wouldn't that be enough of a leap compared to Wii U's total cost of $250 (excluding the pad)?

I agree with you though, it won't be a massive leap, but I'm just curious as to if my question above would put PS720 ahead in regards of power making the Wii U look like next gen...



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