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Kasz216 on 25 February 2010
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BW_JP said:
Kasz216 said:
As for the generation lasting another 5 years... I wonder if it will.

The biggest problem facing all three consoles is the lack of ram. Without using more ram to do things differently you gotta wonder if the game companies will bring the needed level of innovation to keep up the consoles another 5 years.

More ram would allow more gameplay innovations with AI and such... then again that feels like it's hardly been utilized on the HD consoles. AI on HD consoles doesn't really seem much more complex then Wii titles... and just doesn't seem anymore complex in most games.

have you played Killzone2? there's some pretty impressive AI there. in any case, I have only developed for the 360, I don't know about the PS3, but the ram is not such an issue. I would assume the ps3 has 10 folds the amount of resources available over the ps3 though due to being able to stream AI to an SPU instrad of using ram. 

The ps3 has things right honestly, blu-ray, big hard drives by design, free online services, hardware that is complex--but vastly superior to its competitiors.. It will last another 5 years. for sure. Anything better than the ps3 will suffer the same fate the ps3 started out with.

Combine this with built in support for 3D gaming and you've got a console that could launch in a year-and still give high end PCs a run for their money.

add in a motion controller that is vastly superior to the wiimote, but use the same "design sense" and you gain multi-plats in japan, you take casual games and make them multi-plat, suddenly the PS3 looks like a much more attractive choice to the general consumer because they are not getting their wiis for nintendo games anyway, they are getting them for the exercise tools like wii-fit and wii sports resort. If the PS3 can do all this, and it will, better, with HD graphics and free online with 3d gaming and 3d blu-ray movie watching.. why buy a wii?


The 360 is no baby either, It's very powerful and I don't think it needs any changes it sits in the position technology wise where it wants to be. its friendly, open to developers, supports the most robust online service and has the biggest american install base for real games (not wii fit stuff)

Graphics tech is too expensive. the cell is a phenomenal piece of gaming hardware. I wish all systems were like this.  

I'm just going on about what i've heard multiplatform Sega Developers complain about when people ask them what they think about the generation lasting 10 years.


As for the rest of your post... it honsetly sounds like wishful thinking more then anything else.

 

Keep in mind, in the US 42% of people who own 360s and PS3's own Wiis.  To claim the base isn't also on the Wii and may actually be larger if exploited is silly.