The forum - no longer nintendo biased?

[oli2]

I won't speak for others but i certainly have a stupidity bias...

I have stopped to post on many fora (including this one) because i have the feeling that most subjects can't be dealt respectfully and without fanboyism from most posters.
These subjects include :
- 3D technology now
- Future 3D technology
- Present and future sales.
- Actual and future games, and their impact on sales.

That limits what can be said on consoles don't you think ?

What is my view on the current market ?

1) Wii 's success will confirm itself : even if i am not as optimistic as John Lucas on this console 's fate, it seem obvious to me that Nintendo will meet its goal for this fiscal year (ie 20M by March 2008)
2) HD gaming has difficulties to come to mainsteam levels, given its price ... As the HD video content has.
3) The day current HD consoles come to mainstream price, their 3D performances will seem terribly outdated by PC (see below)
4) Since when "hardcore" gaming exists on console ? IMO hardcore gaming is reserved to PC.

What annoys me the most is the im-modesty and short-sightened views that most fanbo*s have :
- They keep on placing "technology" and "sales" in the same sentences, when speaking on how the market will move.
- They speak about technology, spouting words they don't have a clue what they mean, as if they were worldwide experts...
- They put brand loyalty in front of any other view : their brand of choice cannot fail or miss-act, and other brands cannot succeed.
- When speaking about game coding, they think and imply that programming is some sort of "magical". Sorry, but the bad news are distributed parallel programming is very (very) complicated.

Just to come back rapidly to my 3) :
By late 2008 or early 2009, a little company named Intel intend to invest in the market of 3D gaming with massive multicore CPUs.
It is ATM unclear how many online cores will be provided (a prototype with 80 of them has been demonstrated), but a thing is clear : these CPU will be able to perform real-time raytracing !

How do want your little PS3 or Xbox360 to compete with such monsters ?