Why PS4 won't be cutting edge, and neither will Xbox3 - or Why Nintendo might win next gen

[DanneSandin]

HoloDust said:

DanneSandin said:

Well, developers are contradicting themselves really. They say that Wii U isn't powerful enough, and at the same time many studios have closed this gen due to high costs developing a game. If PS720 is a major leap tech wise, developing costs will double. Now, how will that effect developing games? That's another reason why next gen won't be a similar leap as PS3 from PS2 was.

@bold - really doubt that, that's just Epic selling their engine. Most of cost and design philosophy for HD transition has already been done in this gen, next-gen will simply have more power and even more cost-effective tools (real-time everything, as demonstrated in UE4 demo videos).

For example, look at modded PC Skyrim screenshots, with mods that are done by community, and compare that to PS360 shots:

http://kotaku.com/5961994/what-skyrim-looks-like-when-youre-running-100-mods-at-once

Quite impressive, and not that much more costly (I'm sure Bethesda could've done it themself, if they wanted, but since they don;t care for PC anymore....).

You think that Wii U will be able to play games looking like that? =(