NJ5 said:
1- There are strong indications that Nintendo is going for a reasonably powerful system by today's standards (unlike they did with the Wii). 2- The next Playstation / Xbox will probably come out just a year after Project Cafe, that's not enough to make hardware much more powerful. 3- During the ongoing console generation, Sony and Microsoft learned that they can't launch a system with high-end components and still expect to make a profit. So it's quite likely that PS4/X3's hardware will cost almost the same to make as Cafe's. It's likely that Sony/MS's next consoles will be more powerful than Nintendo's, but with similar production cost and just a 1-year technological advantage the difference shouldn't be anywhere near Wii vs PS3/360. |
1,As i said again "If it will be" inferior not "it will be".If they will put GPU more powerful than GTX 580 than it will be whole other story.but i don't believe they will make high-end console with controlers containing HD Touch screen cause it would blow the price through the roof.
2.yes if Cafe will be powerful for 2012 standards and not 2007 standards(like Wii and specifications from 5 year back)
3.Sony have to go high end.that's their reputation as company and they are beeing recognized as a high end stuff company.But they will never spend 2 bilions $ again to develop their own CPU or GPU they will just go for high end 3rd party CPU and GPU.MS was profitable on hardware from day one and X360 have very similiar power as PS3.
So it depends on Nintendo and it's Cafe.If Nintendo will go high end than they will be on par with PS4/X3.If not they will have problem.even if they will have 2 problems:
1.they do not have exclusives for gamers who play GOW,GT,Halo,Forza,Killzone etc.
2.for 3rd parties it's better to make games for 130mln(as of Cafe start) audiance(PS3 and X360 combined)
than for 2mln audiance of Cafe so it will have difficult first year and the kickstart won't give them nothing.
