PS4 Prediction Thread

[zarx]

PlaystaionGamer said:

zarx said:

PlaystaionGamer said:

zarx said:

PlaystaionGamer said:

the WiiU is not even close to twice as powerful as the PS3. so no.. once again with will be Playstation/Bbox as the power systems while the WiiU will be last gen tech. same as what happened with Wii :)

All indications from devs and what we know from the confirmed details 2x the PS3 is likely, possibly more by the time that hardware is final. Sorry to break it to you but the PS3 is not some mystical alien tech box and in 2012 2* more powerful is extreamly conservative. Plenty of devs have said they managed to get multiplatform games up and running at PS360 level in a few months keep in mind that the PS360 versions have had years for developers to optomise for those platforms. The exta RAM alone will be huge for performance let alone the 3+ generation newer GPU and Power 7 CPU.

Dont be rude to me in your posts, i dont reply to cocky people on the internet. 

im fully aware of the PS3's power and the reality of what power the WiiU will have, thanks :) 

I'm sorry, I am in a weired mood today and it's like 2 A.M. 

But if you were fully aware you would know that the Wii U is likely 2* more powerful than the PS3 and that, that is a puny jump in the scheme of things and something Sony would not do. 

thats ok :D 

i know it may seem like an odd prediction and may seem 'low' BUT Sony spent soo much money making the PS3 and it cost so much to launch and get in homes that it cost them billions that they have only recently started to get back. They watched Nintendo release a system with last gen graphics and power take a huge chunk of the market and grab massive profits. Sony is only in this for profits and there is no way they will release the PS4 under the same conditions they did the PS3. 2 PS3's is still a powerful system.. just not compared to what some computers are right now. i just think they will try to get away with having as little of a power leap as possible. 

But Nintendo pulled off something magical with motion control, something like that just doesn't come around that often . I don't think Sony is argant enough to belive that they could pull that off especially while placing themselves in direct competition with the Wii U. All they would really be doing is giving Nintendo an advantage by allowing them to continue to get ports. The only way that would work is if Microsoft went for a big leap and Sony decided that keeping multiplatform games away from the next xbox is more important than keeping up with tech and providing their core base with a reason to upgrade. I mean think about it imagine if PS4 games looked and played like PS3 games exept they were in 1080p. Would you go out and buy a PS4? Why? 

Sony have no real choice but to make a large leap in power. If they don't they might as well not release a new console. As for cost Sony have been involved in R & D for the PS4 since the PS3 launched, they are not going to make a new custom CPU architecture this time round. And they won't have to lose as much per unit sold at launch as this generation has already gone on far longer than usual and even off the shelf parts are already 8x as powerful as the PS3 so by 2013/14 it really won't be an issue.