Prediction - PS3-PS4 and X360-XOne last big performance spec leap

[vivster]

fatslob-:O said:

vivster said:

I disagree. Why would you want to have just one big jump when you could just as well have regular steady improvements. People who don't want to pay money can still wait but it's overall better if we had steady new hardware releases every 2 years. Just letting people rot on their century old hardware isn't the best solution.

And with gradual improvements on hardware over the years backwards compatibility is basically guaranteed. 

The problem with steady improvements is that devs are too stubborn to take advantage of them, just one update is enough to keep them busy and crazy fragmentation isn't ideal either like we see with the N64 and it's expansion pak ... 

Plus you can just wait for the games to also improve with one big jump too if the devs decide to do a retroactive update ... 

We all want generational leaps every year but we can't have them cause transistor technology is progressing too damn slow!

They will have to learn to deal with that shit eventually. I don't see why they cannot do this when mobile and PC developers do this all the time. Consoles aren't special anymore. They use the same hardware as PCs and smartphones and they also have the same issues with digital downloads and patches and bugs and games running like shit. They have long lost their special status.

I also think that developers are proud enough to push their games with new hardware when more power is available. Games already run like shit on weaker consoles so why not just be honest upfront and admit that people will have a worse time on weaker hardware because games were made for stronger hardware.

The only reason why there isn't regularly new hardware is that console manufacturers are greedy and there is no competition to motivate them to release competitive hardware.