Miyamoto: We're Not Interested In High End Specs (Hardware)

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CarcharodonKraz said:

bowserthedog said:

OdinHades said:
Nobody cares about High-End tech anymore and that's why PS4 and X1 also aren't mindblowingly powerful. We have reached graphics that are just good enough. They are not limitating games anymore in any possible way. A developer today can do anything he can think of in a game. So the problem isn't hardware anymore, it's just imagination. You need the right ideas. Designers will do the good looking, but even for that, you don't need a supercomputer anymore.

The only people who really care about physically correct hairs on the balls of their character or some stupid reflection at a place nobody is ever looking at, are those Master Race PC people, as they like to call themselves. If you have fun with that, fine by me. But I really don't care anymore.

They had the same processing power increase we get almost every new gen. Roughly 10x.  But PS4 is more popular mostly due to having won the processing power war against Xbox One.   And PC seems to be as popular as ever and again this is due to the fact that sony and microsoft took too long to come out with new systems and people started buying pcs and some of them haven't looked back.

Processing power doesn't help Nintendo though because at this point nobody would be confident to buy a nintendo console to play cross platform games because they haven't got the lions share of cross platform games since super nintendo. So for Nintendo going bleeding edge is not going to be that important.

weird.

A. this "processing war" you speak of had next to nothing to do with ps4's success.  Pricepoint and consumer freedom is what made them so popular.  The processing power isn't even THAT big of a difference.  Most regular consumer's aren't going to notice.  Remember, probably about 50% of gamers are still having their parents buy their consoles.  Their parents don't usually know a processor from a hole in the ground.  What they do know is that on system was $100 more and all that it adds is a camera.  Oh you don't live in an area that has broadband internet available?  well, then your not getting an xbox one.  

B. I may just have a misconception of the popularity of modern pc gaming, but if there are more people playing non-pirated copies of fallout 4 on pc then either xb1 or ps4 then i would be absolutely dumbfounded.

strangely i agree with most of your conclusions, just not how you obtained them.  

i think i just broke ferguson's rule.

I'm not suggesting that more people are buying fallout 4 on pc than on consoles. Piracy isn't really a factor here.  We are having a discussion about whether specs matter and i'm saying the do and pc gaming is much better now then a year into the ps3. Steam alone has 60 million regularily active users. Even Microsoft recongizes this and is baking a kinds of pc gaming cookies into windows 10 to make sure people are buying windows 10.

My understanding is the ps4's gpu is about 50% more capable than the one in xbox One.  Remember xbox actually has the more advantageous price. Sony may have a lot of exclusives but they aren't selling that well. I could see someone buying a ps4 for exclusives once there is a Gran Tourismo, Uncharted, God of War ect but not for the mediocre collection of exclusives they have to date. Yeah some of them are quite good like Bloodborne but the ones which have mass market appeal haven't been that stellar.

All I know is I went ps4 this gen and I was hardcore xbox before Don Mattrick showed up. Xbox just wasn't speaking my language. Kinect and lower specs than ps4 just didn't work for me. Personally I prefer Microsoft's exclusives compared with Sony. I don't find Sony's style that appealing as Sony seems to be focusing more on games with a lot of story but thin on substance wheras Microsoft exclusives tend to be more gameplay focused experiences like Halo and Gears. But Microsoft still lost me with their lower specs and focus on kinect. I already have to buy a gimmick every gen just to play my Nintendo games when I buy a second console i certainly don't expect to be buying something else with a forced gimmick. Graphics aren't everything but when i'm playing a game i want it to be the best version of the game.