Ail said: 1*You know we're reaching a stage where computing power in consoles is starting to be pretty good and i can see the PS3 lasting longer than what is being predicted in this thread. PS : Consoles are not Ipod. 4*Microsoft and Sony really don't make any cash out of selling them, the cash is from games, so as long as you can design kick ass games on the current consoles there is no incentive for them to replace them early.....( there was last gen for Microsoft because of the Nvidia issue and their market share). This gen however I don't see any of the big 3 in such a bad market position that they would want to say ' these cards sucks, lets shuffle the deck and start over again' |
Actually your arguments can be used also against them. 1. This definately is proved by console sales. The weakest hardware by far is beating the competition combined by weekly basis. 2. This is because of longer development times. The longer the a game takes to develope, the more harder it is to predict what kind of hardware will be available when the game comes out, so the devs need to "play it safe". 3. Who says anything about blowing performance out? You miss the most important part. I said in another thead, that next generation consoles will all propably use single processor CPU, performance around twice what PS3 has. It doesn't matter how powerful for example PS3 is, when it's finally wise to use only 1/3 of it's power because of its complex processor. What the 3 want to do is blow this gen away with lower game development costs (except maybe for Nintendo), since it makes easier profit and less risks. If the game sells a million, why would you spend 20 million to develope it, when you can do it with 10? And besides, new hardware may be cheaper in long term, if it's designed in the right way. In 2011, beating PS360 performance with single RISC isn't going to be a big deal. 4. This was just to fill number 3. They could sell consoles at profit. They could make games cheaper. They could make more money with bigger marketshare. But they don't. Maybe next gen they will?
Ei Kiinasti.
Eikä Japanisti.
Vaan pannaan jalalla koreasti.
Nintendo games sell only on Nintendo system.