IGN: Xbox 720 Will Be Six Times as Powerful as Current Gen

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ultraslick said:

Excellent Post.

@OP, I do want at least 1 of the 3 consoles to be "overpowered"- something which provides a seemingly limitless resource for creating beautiful games for years and years.

If Microsoft is making a console with specs so close to the wiiU, then to me- that is a selling point for Nintendo. This makes me consider the WiiU more.

Same here. I expect the Xbox 720 to be at *least* 10 times more powerful than the X360.  Even just that at 1080P will improve aliasing, shadows, etc.  Skyrim is Great, but it doesn't look as good as say, Cameron's "Avatar" in 1080P on Blu-ray.  The X360 is the best of PC’s in 2004, nearly 10 years later, I expect more.

And, as others have said, I think 4K television will be much more common in a couple of years.  So I think they should consider what people are going to be watching 5 years from now.  And 1080p 3D will be a rather common feature on many TV’s in the next 5 years.  And speaking of Gears of War 3, have you seen it in 3D?  (It’s amazing) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsIJgVrbKq4

Plus, if the X720 is only 20% more powerful than the WiiU then what will distinguish it?  That much power difference is not very significant and hardly noticeable.  It’s much less than the difference from 720p and 1080p.  And if they both run all 3rd party games, then it’s just Halo vs Mario, and Blance Board Wiimotes vs Kinect.

Plus, if the Kinect 2.0 has anything similar to the new HD camera requirement on Window 8, then it will need more power to crunch that information, and more improved speech recognition.

I hope this is a false rumor, people need a great reason to get a new consol and if the blur between the WiiU and the X720 is so small, even though one will come out a year later; I think it will hurt the Xbox