Microsoft: We Think The Future Is Without Console Generations

[Pemalite]

Cerebralbore101 said:

Pemalite said:

They are good ideas in my opinion. Less tech stagnation, consoles more likely able to keep pace with PC gaming.

I would rather not have a repeat of the extended last generation where I felt like poking my eyes out with a hot fire poking iron near the end, the games looked bad.

Up until the PS2, every new console generation was a quantum leap in graphics. Going from the PS1/N64 to the PS2/NGC was like going from modern graphics, to full blown photo-realism. Imagine a new console releases, and they put the game on the T.V. screen and people walk by and they think you are watching a movie, because it looks exactly the same as real life down to every little detail. Modern graphics improvements are small, incremental, and pathetic by comparison. 

Saying that console graphics have to keep up with PC gaming is just as dumb as saying that the SNES needed to keep up with the 3D0, Jagaur, etc.

Please. Today is very different from 15-30 years ago that you are making those comparisons against.

The market is larger, more mature and peoples needs/wants/desires have changed.

And if you want those "big leaps" in image quality, then you will need to wait longer and longer between generations, tech advancement is slowing down and consoles very much rely on PC technology advancement, not to mention that in order to double the image quality of a game... You require orders-of-magnitude more hardware.

Consoles hold back the potential of PC gaming, that cannot be disputed and the PC is the largest gaming platform other than Android and iOS in terms of user numbers.