wii 2 confirmed

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padib said:

psrock said:

noname2200 said:

Play4Fun said:

He just makes arguments without taking the market and tech into account.

PS4 will be a powerhouse, 10-20x more powerful than Wii 2. What about development costs? What about not wanting to bleed to much money like they did this gen? How do they put the kind of tech required for that in a box without melting it due to overheating?

 

Obviously I share your concerns, but that doesn't make him a fanboy by any stretch. I think he's wrong about this topic, yes, but he has a history of being reasonable.

Actually, I'm not sure I really think that he is wrong about what Sony and Microsoft will do. I just know that the results will be uglier than this year's NCAA basketball championship game, so I'm really hoping that he's wrong. It certainly doesn't seem like a rational course of action.

If I wrong I will take it like man, but I know  Sony, they don't care much about losing money on consoles. 

All you have to do is look at the NGP. This handheld will have hardware no other machine will have yet. It's as cutting edge as you get. And that's the PSP successor, think of a PS3 successor. 

dude, you don't form a trend on two dots, that's a line. To form a trend you need many cases. If you actually look at the trend since PS, Sony was not cutting edge, rather it was Nintendo, and then Microsoft. E.g.:

N64 >> PS   (64-bit >> 32-bit for most purposes - ignore the Jaguar for a sec :P )

XBOX> GC > PS2 (let's not argue on this one, anyone long enough following the industry long enough knows this one)

surprise

PS3 > XBOX360 > Wii   => AN EXCEPTION (Temporary change of philophy at NIntendo: drastic times call for drastic measures profit suicide at SONY and MS headquarters for a greater mission)

The handhelds are a totally different story (GB/DS was always the least powerful in its generation)

So, to thing PS4 >> P-NES, I think that's not only a stretch, not only does it not reflect the technology trend as pointed by others (Heating, Moore's law, dev costs, etc.), but it doesn't even make sense from a VG-history perspective.

Let's stop arguing this one, it's pointless. We pretty much have a sort of consensus here that the PS4 will be only slightly better than the P-NES. Good enough?

fair enough. You do make a good point except the last one.