Wii 2, Xbox 720 and PS4 pricing strategies.

[scottie]

Oyvoyvoyv said:

scottie said:

NinjaBlade360 said:
wii2 300$ i think that they will have hd in there next console and a hard drive

xbox720 a 250 and 400$ sku

ps4 300 and 400$ i think that sony will learn from there past mistake with the ps3 and release a cheaper console

 

If Ninty put a conventional harddrive in the Wii2 it would be the 2nd case of a downgrade between generations. (the first being the harddrive in the xbox, and lack thereof in the core 360)

 

A flash drive has many advantages over a harddrive, such as

faster read/write speed (game data saves and loads faster)

Is quieter

More energy efficient

 

Ninty will stick with a flash drive, maybe 4 gb or so

Okay, most people won't give a damn about that.

 

The Wii makes tons of noice (remember the N64? Couldn't hear it at all).

Its loading times are greatly inferior (longer) than they were on the GC and Ps2.

Who the heck cares about the energy efficency anyway? I mean, it's the difference of 2 lightbulbs.

 

While that doesn't prove a lot, your arguments pro Flash are pretty mediocre. Considering how much bigger games get, 4gb in 2012 would be equavalient to 512 mb flash in 2006 (pretty much).

 

I'm not even gonna predict what Nintendo does, because they're an odd mix of super-conservative and very innovative, but your arguments don't really disprove NinjaBlade's.

 

My Wii doesn't make tons of noise - but obviously a disc based console will make more than a cartridge based one

 

That loading time you refer to is loading of a level, not loading of a save file. Two completely seperate things

I do, and I think other people do too

 

And yeah, that's why I predicted 4 gb - Using Moore's Law with a time period of doubling every 18 months (as has been seen for flash memory)