| Crono141 said: The PS1 to PS2 difference was, lets be honest, more polygons, higher res textures. SNES to NES: more sprites, more colors, higher res. Tech was much more limiting back then than it is now. And I don't know the "finances", but I do know the market and in this economy no one is going to buy a console that costs over 400 dollars. At least, not enough to get yourself an install base. What is the difference betwee Wii and WiiU? High definition, more polygons, higher res textures, better shader effects. Whats going to be the difference between PS3 and PS4? The models on PS3 games already look spectacular, so increasing the polygon count isn't going to buy you much more visual fidelity. Increasing the texture resolution? Its already in HD, anything higher is a waste of resources since TVs can't display anything higher. Better shader tech? Yeah, that's probably about it. You'll get the edges of eye candy to improve, and little else. Unless they want to bring everything into 4k. In which case cost is going to go well beyond 400 dollars, software development costs (already measured in the 10s of millions) is going to skyrocket, and most devs will decide it isn't worth the effort for the added costs. Just more units they have to sell in order to be profitable. You see, it doesn't matter if PS4 or Durango come out with something 20X more powerful than the WiiU. Developers aren't going to commit the kind of resources it would need to in order to take advantage of that hardware, because at the end of the day you wouldn't even be able to tell the difference in the living room. Nintendo has made the smart move. And I think Sony and Microsoft will follow suit. |
This is a great post. It summarizes exactly what I've been telling oniyide and pezus in other threads the past couple of week. If and when PS4 is reveiled to not be a huge generational leap like they're expecting, I really want to see if the two of them suddenly do an about face and embrace this new strategy of minimal next-gen leaps all of a sudden. Will be interesting to see.
