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enditall727 on 15 November 2011
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VetteDude said:
enditall727 said:
HappySqurriel said:
After Microsft releases their next system, and Nintendo releases the Wii U, there will only be a limited time where the PS3 is viable as a platform for game development. Essentially, third party publishers need to release their games to the PS3, XBox 360 and PC to get the sales to justify the high development costs of these games. While developers will continue to support the HD consoles until the next generation platforms are well established, if the Wii U and Next XBox have similar enough performance and developers can target the PC at the same time within 12 to 18 months developers may be able to target 50+ Million gamers on next-generation consoles; and with the userbase of current generation consoles falling, developers would rapidly be moving away from these platforms.


let's say that these developers do move away from the hd consoles

ps3 will still have the Vita keeping it alive for A LONG time because soon many PSVita games will be shared with ps3 with that cross platform play thing or whatever it's called

AND

the Wii U technology wont be that much bigger than ps3's. you can even see that all Wii U will be getting are ps3 and 360 games/slightly upgraded ports so when the new generation kicks this 1 out the door ps3 could also still be filled with life because it wouldn't take much time to make a Wii U game for the ps3 :)

ps3 isn't going anywhere anytime soon next gen ;)

You're delusional. I'm a huge PS3 fan, its the only HD console I own. But c'mon, it'll die as soon as the NextBox comes out. First off, the BluRay drive in it is anemic, 2x sucks in 2011 technology. The Cell is basically a single core CPU, not cutting it. The 6 SPU's are only used by Sony 1st and 2nd party and the big 3rd party titles. It's tough to develop for and takes a while to learn. Sure it give great return when you DO use it, but most developers don't want to learn and what makes you think they will learn when the NextBox is out?

Next, the GPU sucks. Its an Nvidia 7800. In the time since PS3 has been out, Nvidia has made the 8xxx, 9xxx, GTX 2xxx, GTX 4xx, and GTX 5xx series of GPU's. It doesn't have unified shaders like the 360 and ALL PC GPU's have now. It uses GDDR3, not the newer and faster GDDR5, and its on a 128-bit bus, not a 256 which cuts down on the VRAM bandwidth. It only has 256MB of VRAM. It can't render games in 1080p because the textures are too big.

EVEN if it cannabilizes the main RAM, it still isn't enough, it only has 256MB of that as well. Most PC's are shipping with 4GB of RAM now. When the GPU uses the CPU RAM, the CPU is now bottlenecked. The good news is that the RAM is XDR which is just phenomenally fast, but expensive.

Heck, the PS3 doesn't even have 802.11n yet.


You're delusional. I'm a huge PS3 fan, its the only HD console I own

umm.. and what exactly is this supposed to mean? Are you supposed to be gaining points by claiming this? Am i supposed to give you an award or something?? I dont care how "huge" of a fan you are to ps3. Hell, i wouldn't give a damn if ps3 was the 1st console you ever started gaming on so what was the point in even mentioning this? -_-

But c'mon, it'll die as soon as the NextBox comes out.

*FACEPALM!* SMGDH -_-!

..(sigh).. Im not even going to bother with reading the rest of your comment now

good day sir