wii 2 confirmed

[psrock]

noname2200 said:

psrock said:

noname2200 said:

psrock said:

I will bet you right now the next PS3 will be at least 10-20x more powerful than the Wii2. 

*whistle*

Will the next Playstation also have new dev tools that make development cost about 10% of what it would otherwise? Because if not, Sony would essentially be pricing devs out of the market! Lord knows many have shown they can't survive in the current environment, and I shudder to think how much worse it'll be if you're right.

And yet , people complain about that for the last 5 years, and dev looked at the Wii which is the easiest and cheapest to develop for and ignored it. All Sony has to dos is stick to blu-ray, it wa sthe reason the lost so much money, but prices have going down drasticly and GPU has exploded in a matter of years. The consoles are way behind the PC because its up to date even with a cheap GPU. All Sony needs to do is upgrade its memory and GPU and see a huge gap grows between it and the Wii2.

Right. But that's not what I asked. The question wasn't "can Sony do that?" It's "won't Sony just price devs out of its system if it does that?" It's true what you said about 3rd parties and the Wii. It's also true that profits are generally poor this generation. And it's true that, as I said to epicberserk, this is the first generation where PC games by and large have limited themselves to what's doable on the HD consoles, in spite of the consles being "way behind," as you put it.

I'm not saying you're not right, and that Sony will not chuck moar power into the PS4. I'm just wondering aloud what the results of that will be. Unless something comes up that drastically reduces dev prices, my money's on "disaster."

Not only will they but developers are already asking for it. How many developers have complained they wish either the PS3 or 360  were more powerful because they acheive what they really wanted to.