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Mazty on 05 February 2013
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curl-6 said:
Mazty said:

Thats a contradiction. How can you determine the next iteration of hardware if you are not looking at power?

 

Because the Wii U is the successor to the Wii, which was 7th gen, and was the successor to the GCN, which was 6th gen.


So then a successor is determined just by the name? If you ignore the hardware then how are you determining what is a successor? How is the 360 elite not the 360's successor if you are ignoring hardware? 

 

kain_kusanagi said:
Mazty said:

How though are you linking 1 & 2? They seem very far removed from one another. You're saying the PS4 could be technically inferior to the PS3, but a new console, say Console X made by Apple would have to be a considerable upgrade from the best of the last gen to be considered next gen.

I'd say that consoles simply need to adhere to point 2 otherwise it's just an off-shoot of the current gen, no different from things like Move, Eyetoy and Kinect. 

Move and Kinect are current gen addons and are not stand alone consoles.

It doesn't matter to me if Sony was stupid enough to releases a PS4 less powerfull than the PS3. It would be the follow up and therefor next gen. It is however, completely unlikely to happen.

Still my point stands - why then would a new entry to the generation have to be a significant improvement over the 360, yet MS could release something as powerful as a Furbie?