Sony can wait, but Microsoft must announce a new console

[DirtyP2002]

Araknie said:

We all have seen that Sony, with exclusives, can still pull out some power from that marvelous PS3. Beyond it's the perfect example if it's true that the game runs all in real time. They can wait still at least 2 years before the PS4, there's no problem.

Microsoft has a big problem now, has still DVDs. 

You know PS3 has Blue-Ray they can reach 50gb of space if dual-layered and same Nintendo on the WiiU with their original kind of disc that works the same of Blue-Rays.

Now the developers will think twice about doing versions of big huge games like a Rage or a L.A. Noire or a Max Payne on the 360 where 2 out of 3 home consoles in the market requires only one disc. You know production costs.

I think, and i'm sure about this, that Microsoft has a console almost ready they could  show at this E3, but it will be like WiiU in 2011, they can't show a game for now.

So they wait like until they have something, they can show the next console in 3 occasions that i really hope, for them and for the market, they consider: Tokyo Game Show (because it's a chance to gain in a market never pratically considered by Japanese people), the March GDC (great for developers to see something) and E3. (well, duh)

What do you think, it's going to be real and in one of these events? Do you think too they risk to do like SEGA and force the life time of the 360 if they wait over this time?

Let me know.

I lol'd at the production costs of a DVD.

http://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-4-7-DVD-R-100-Pack-Spindle/dp/B001TOD7ME/ref=pd_sim_sbs_pc_1

I, the shabby consumer, can buy 100 DVDs for $17.99. That is 0.18 Cents for a disc for ME. The manufacturer makes money and Amazon makes money when I buy it. Now think what might happen if Rockstar goes to a DVD manufacturer and says "we need about 3 million of these". Amazon makes no money either. So you are looking of additional costs of less than $0.08 per DVD and the software on it sells for $60.

And NO, MS does not charge a fee per disc. That was a rumour which appeared when the translation of an interviewn with iD software was simply wrong. It is still in some people's mind.

http://www.shacknews.com/article/54795/ids-tim-willits-on-rage

 

IF MS releases a new console in 2013, what I really hope, Sony needs to release the PS4 in the same timeframe. They can't handle another messed up launch like the PS3 again.

For the exclsuives you mentioned: I don't want to rub it in your face, but the real world is not anticipating these games as much as the internet tells you. Killzone 3 looked great and sold okay, not more. It is not like people (in the real world, not the internet) stop buying 360s and games for it, because Uncharted lookd so good. In fact, way more people, even on the PS3, prefer Battlefield over Killzone, CoD over Uncharted etc etc. The biggest games for the PS3 next year will be multiplat games and you don't see a lot of people talk about those.