| Joelcool7 said: Shinobi I am truly confused. You think my approach of Sony releasing a powerful but cheap console avoiding direct competition with Nintendo and MS is a had approach. But you also suggest Sony investing a ton in innovating is also bad. You also suggest Sony is in a lose lose situation. As for running Samaritan the engine will require 10x the power of the 360 and neither WiiU and likely next box will be able to run it in that form. Sony could run the engine at its default requirements and that alongside the lack of Kinect and a tablet would have the hardcore classic gaming market secure. Then Sony could put a Mic on The Dual Shock giving it voice controls similar to Kinect. Sony could add a small touch pad on the rear of the controller like the one on Vita. Sony could innovate the current Dual Shock adding unique features. Thus giving Sony a unique controller and the hardcore classic market. Sony will not get anywhere trying to take on Nintendo or Microsoft directly. A tablet would he foolish and a Kinect like EyeToy. Sony's best chance is to avoid a direct conflict by ensuring its platform is unique. While Microsoft puts a touch screen on their controller and Nintendo uses a tablet Sony releases a super powered Dual Shock. By the way this is far from short sighted. Directly competing with Microsoft and Nintendo has failed with PS3 and PSP. Sony has realized they can't compete in a direct conflict with both PSOne and PS2 Sony not only had a technological edge (CD and DVD) they had a head start (Early launch) plus their cheaper Dec costs gave them a huge third party support advantage. But PS3 proved when you remove the cheap Dec costs and head start the console just doesn't have much of a chance. Selling it at a loss shows again that they can't go that route again. Your right that Unreal4 cannot save the PS4 on its own, the higher Dec costs could adversely effect the console. |
How much more powerfull are you talking here? We already know the ball park of where Wii U and Next box will fall in terms of performance, and those specs are pretty powerfull already. how much higher can Sony really go in? It woudlnt make sense to go for such a route the advancements will be negligable. How would they even market that? With the samaritan demo i suppose? Wont work imo. The market for poeple who get gidy over insane graphics is not profitable. If sony just target them its suicide.
I said they dont need to invest a ton to be innovative. And ive explained perfectly well why i think they are in a lose lose situation.
Bottom line: If sony dont try to compete they will become irrelevent, yet if they do try to compete its risky, especially given their financial position.
