Nintendo might be a disadvantage with development next generation

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rajendra82 said:

shams said:
I think Ninty will have an *advantage* - as the "code upgrade" path from Wii to WiiHD is pretty obvious.

What will a PS4 or XBOXNEXT game look like? How hard will it be to make something that looks *significantly* better than a 360/PS3 game? Very, very, VERY hard. They played the "high-res" card this generation.

Ninty gets to play it next generation.

We have all seen GPUs and CPUs for PC evolve quite significantly over the past few years.  PC GPUs and CPUs today are far more advanced than what is in the consoles.  How hard is it to have a system with an eight core processor, a DirectX10 GPU, a few GB of fast RAM, and a big hard drive.  Couple it with a fast Blue Ray Drive and voila, NextBox 720.

Yes, the technology has advanced, but how much better are the games going to look?  That is the real question.  Games look so good right now that the next step up is going to be photorealism, and I just don't see that happening next gen.

Nintendo will likely be making the biggest leap forward next gen, while Microsoft and Sony do everything they can to keep their hardware costs down.