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Squilliam on 14 June 2009
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Loud_Hot_White_Box said:
Squilliam said:

Huh? Not really. Most people don't care about the difference and most people who appear to care are fanboys. Theres no advantage really having a slightly more powerful system, however there is an advantage with having a considerably more powerful system especially for Microsoft as they can leverage the PC/360 angle better and exclude the PS3 for reasons beyond the difficult PC/PS3 conversions if this upgrade rumour is somewhat legitimate at least. Furthermore theres the angle that the camera is already expensive so it means that current generation games can easily be retrofitted and the extra processing is shifted from the camera to the console.

If you think that an upgraded Xbox 360 would do anything less than be obviously and significantly more powerful than the PS3 you would have to be mistaken.

I don't know, PS3 is usually lead programming platform nowadays, and devs have said they even get more out of their 360 version doing it this way -- where as before, following MS recommendations designed to cripple PS3 versions, 360 versions even suffered a little.

And now the PS3 install base is pretty big, games are selling, and sales of everything will take off when price cuts / slim bundles occur.

Most devs won't give up sales to the PS3 install base.  It's an open question whether they'll jump at the chance to work that hard on the NextBox hardware when the rewards (install base) for it just aren't there.

Developers seem to have no trouble giving up development on the Wii even though its weaker. Microsoft can get developers to jump to the next generation because it already exists on the PC. 10M consoles isn't much on their own, but 10M consoles and whatever PC sales they can get is pretty good. Just as the early Xbox 360 years were all PC/360, early nextbox years can easily be PC/nextbox. Furthermore they can leverage the promising studios in Eastern Europe who can only develop for the PC at this point by giving them an easy window to develop for consoles. Furthermore current developers for consoles can easily take advantage of extra performance with higher frame-rates, better multiplayer, improved visuals etc.



Tease.