What would you guys rather have?

More Power and NO Backwards compatibility?
or
20% Less power BUT with Backwards compatibility?

It will be exciting to see what Actually happens when these consoles are revealed. Anything could happen next gen.

Ps1- Impressive, Ps2-Excellent, PS3-good, Orbis-?. I'm hyped for 2013-14 period.

Btw, What is Romour?

Rumour*

s1- Impressive, Ps2-Excellent, PS3-good, Orbis- alright. I'm not hyped for 2013-14 period.

More power, no question.

I have a 60GB PS3, I've never played a PS2 game on it.

same here... BC is over rated... way over rated!

I'm not sure about this rumour...

No backward compatibility would be bad. There are a lot of games and remakes this generation. Not supporting that will encourage another round of remakes which I don't think a lot of people would buy. The reason people bought remakes this gen is mostly for trophies. It is important (to many people) not to lose your trophy history.

Going with a faster chipset will increase the price and they have to make sure the rest of the machine supports the chipset. Both price and the ability of the rest of the physical architecture to support the Cell processor were an issue this generation for Sony. Consumers had a hard time justifying the first PS3 prices and once the price became reasonable some devts were still struggling with how to take advantage of the Cell processor.

The used game comments will only be bad if the other console vendors don't do something similar. Also, the online tying to a tag is better as long as this means that unlimited downloads are available. The new protections may deter some gamers from entering the generation, but they will be forced to move as devts start to avoid making new games for the previous consoles.

The article makes no mention of the things I think will be most important next gen which are:

- Are they sticking with blu-ray or going to something else or a new blu-ray standard with even more space?
- Is there going to be internal storage and if so how much and what type (SSD or 3.5" HD, or 2.5" HD)?
- Are they sticking with Move as a casual input device or going with something else?
- What will the network be like in the next generation of Sony consoles?

I am sorry, but if you think Sony would win anything with a $350 you are insane. I don´t even think Nintendo would be able to launch a 2013 console for that price and win the generation, and Nintendo has the Marios of the world, meaning games that sell regardless of hardware.

One of the big reasons, GT, Uncharted, God of War, Killzone sell is because they are impressive performing games, they are more then just fun to play.

It is not that difficult to understand. Nintendo - Mascots, Ms - Kinect, Sony - Impressive looking/performing software

If Sony drops the ball and makes a console with similar performance as MS, I am telling you right now, Sony will get manhandled by Kinect 2.0, and first party studios will not be able to push the console because MS will have similar hardware to work with.

I still don´t think you understand that an U4 game running on a $350 hardware machine would not impress anybody but you (apparently) in the year 2013 (that is the selling point of Sony machines), unless as I said before, they invent a new gimmick or LBP (apparently they are pushing it with the karting game) goes Boom.

Sony needs the hardware to differentiate themselves (you can hate the fact that they depend so much on it, but banking on a cheap console would be a 100x bigger gamble for Sony then going with a power hungrier machine, of course not going over the top).