You people want MOAR Power in 8th Gen consoles, but........

[Gilgamesh]

IamAwsome said:

....but can the industry really survive it? 

- Yes

Everyone in the PS3/360 camp says the Wii U isn't poweful enough. How powerful do you expect the PS4/X3ox to be??? If Nintendo takes a loss on the so called "underpowered" Wii U, than what makes you think Sony and MS will be able to release consoles with MOAR power, and even remotely turn some sort of profit? 

- The Wii U is the same amount of power of PS360 if not a little bit better, why would we want a console that puts out the same looking games that we been playing for the last 6 years? We expect the PS4/720 to be more power then the PS360 atleast 3 - 4 times like it has been every gen. Nintendoes loss is because of the tablet controller, and I'm expecting a $399 - $499 price for both PS4 and X720, which is acceptable these days.

The base Wii U is $299, and they profit with 1-2 games sold, so that puts the production price at around $325 (and no the GamePad doesn't eat up most of the cost). If consoles are as powerful as you people want, we could be looking at $400-$500 launch prices if they don't sell at a loss. 

- Clearly the gamepad is costing a lot of money since the PS360 has similar specs and are profiting at $199 - $250.

Oh, and 4k will NOT happen next gen. just saying :).

- 8th gen? No very doubtful, I don't think anyone is expecting this?

Development costs are rising, and we lost a lot of devs this gen. What makes y'all think they'll survive with costs tripling? We'll just have more Call of Duty, Assassin's Creed, and Madden, and less innovation. Lightbbox Interactive, Eat Sleep Play, and Superbot Entertainment were all founded in the middle of this gen. They all released games last year that didn't sell. After that they faced major layoffs, and make iOS games now. THQ went belly up, and poor Vigil got left in the cold. Now we have publishers like EA and Square Enix consistently posting losses. If big publishers are losing money now, how will they survive next gen? 

- That's the name of the game, happens every generation, the only thing about the 7th genration is the big recession hit hard on a lot of companies. Cost won't triple, they may double at the most. Also there is cheaper alternatives to making games like the mini games on Xbox live and PSN like Journey, Flower, Limbo etc. Smaller gaming companies can start there if they're successful then they can make bigger games.

The answer?: They WON'T

- You don't know that.

If development costs rise more next gen like Epic says, bigger publishers will have to merge, and smaller publishers will either turn to iOS development, or shut down altogether, like THQ and Atari. Everyone wants an insanely powerful PS4, but for the good of the industry, it's not necessary. 

- Companies are preparing for this, do you really think they don't know that things get bigger and better every gen? A lot of companies now are complaining how the 7th gen is going on so long and they want the 8th gen to start, if they were all so scared of the new generation why would they want it to come so bad?