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pokoko on 22 February 2013
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Kwaidd said:

A good read.  Many important points hit, such as the limits of technology spurring on amazing creativity vs high tech allowing more lazy shiny.  What was technology when electricity or the light bulb or telephone were made possible?  How many years later, and we are excited about a few more polygons etc over what the prev. gen gave us?  I totally get this guys point of view.

A friend of mine asked me yesterday, "what does it offer me over my ps3?"  And really, what does it truly offer thats new and fresh?  I guess, not a lot other than software support over the long term when they decide to drop the not good enough ps3.

Now, I'm not saying there won't be stellar gaming experiences to be enjoyed on the system...because of course there will be.  But, is it really that much better than we have experienced in the past because of greater power?  Or will it be more of the same goodness with a shinier cover because devs will be looking at ways to make the games look better, rather than take what power they had and find new ways to utilize it or find fascinating new ways to design games to make up for the fact that they cannot go any further down the road of pretty?

A good read indeed

I don't really understand this argument, this idea that gaming hardware shouldn't advance.  It doesn't even come close to making sense to me.  Without even trying, I can think of games that wouldn't have been the same or even possible on older hardware.

How would Shadow of the Colossus have played on the SNES?  Journey on the PS1 (it couldn't)?  Would Mario Galaxy have been possible on the NES?  Racing games are obviously better now, RTS games are obviously better on superior hardware.  An entire genre, the FPS, has been improved by leaps and bounds from generation to generation.

All improved hardware does is to give artists more freedom.  How anyone can argue against that, I cannot understand.

And before anyone says that all I care about is graphics, no.  I don't give a rat's fuzzy ass if games never looked better than KZ3 or Uncharted.  I'm a PC gamer but I never even check my settings.  That's not what this is about.