Mazty said:
curl-6 said:
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Thats a contradiction. How can you determine the next iteration of hardware if you are not looking at power?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Anything that is a successor would be next gen because it is by definition following it's predecessor's generation.
Take the Ouya for example. It is a new system being released during the 8th generation of home consoles. But the Ouya is not significantly more powerful than the PS360 nor is it a follow up to a 7th gen machine. It is not a next gen game machine. However, if Ouya sticks around for the next 5-10 years and recieves a follow up for the 9th gen then the Ouya 2 would be next gen and part of (8th gen). The original Xbox didn't follow anything, but it was significatly more powerfull than the Saturn, PSX, and N64 so it was a 6th gen machine.
Anything from MS, Sony, and Nintendo is by default an 8th gen. It has nothing to do with its name. The Xbox 360 Elite was not a follow up it was a revision just like the PS3 Slim and Ugly Slim and the Xbox 360 S. To be a follow up it has to be a completely new machine, but it doesn't have to be 10X more powerful either.
