| tripenfall said: What will also be important is the physical medium the consoles use. Will Sony push ahead with Blu Ray technology? Strong rumours suggest the Nextbox will not use discs at all, instead opting for a unique version of memory cards combined with downloadable titles. If the Nextbox games can run faster from this medium that discs it might give them a point of difference. As for now, well it's Zombie U for me..... |
Of course Sony will continue with the BluRay format since they pushed it from the beginning and they want PS to serve as a gaming + multi-media device. They are not going to abandon it. We may see next generation BluRay XL discs that hold 100GB+ of data though.
http://www.cd-info.com/blu-ray/bd-xl/index.html
Whoever started the rumor that Xbox 720 won't use discs but instead will use memory cards is off the mark. Right now the Wii U I believe accesses games at 22 MB/sec. The discs are dirt cheap to make. To beat this access speed, you need faster flash cards and those cost a lot of $. For 45 MB/sec, you'll be paying $30-40 for 32GB. Even at cost, I can't see this being cheaper than $15-20.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=20-171-566
This simply doesn't make sense. If anything, next generation consoles will come with either larger hard drives or allow you to upgrade to an SSD and load the games onto the console directly. Modern SSDs can read and write at 500+ MB/sec. That would be a real advantage. Nintendo botched this opportunity and Sony seems to be the most open to the idea of upgrading your storage in the console to anything you want, assuming you pick the right size of 2.5" drive.
I think PS4 and Xbox next will launch 6 months within each other, and most likely before Holiday 2013. Sony will not want to give MS a 12 months head start again and because they are ditching the Cell for an x86 AMD CPU, the console will be much faster in CPU speed than PS3, while allowing them to be more aggressive with pricing (or alternatively allocate more funds towards the GPU).
