HEAD LINE from 2011:

Nintendo, after lagging behind in the hardware specs, but killing in sales will blow away the completion with it's Holographic Laser disk centered system, with its full 700Gigbytes of space on a single disk, and Hyperthreaded Quad Core, with 13(?)Gigs of ram...called the "ScrwU"

Square Unix Complains "That's all? looks like a 2 disk set for FF:VCXII: The Curse of the Uncaring Gamers. BUY IT!!"

PS3 sales remain steady, despite the lack of a price drop, as Sony remains in receivership of the Japaneses government.

Microsoft replies: "So? Who Cares WEEEEEEEE" as they roll in piles of Windows 7 money.



You Time theaving reporter Haggy

Next gen all consoles will use the power glove

Oh dear, I spoke too soon.

Bruceongaming has seen the future, and it is 3D

http://www.bruceongames.com/2009/05/15/i-have-seen-the-future-of-gaming-and-it-is-3d/

So that's that settled then.

Maybe.

Next gen will be very similar to this one - just with more emphasis on DLC and I suspect it will be using slightly modified PC parts around the class of 8800gt and X3 720 to make 1080p@30 fps possible.

@Zlejedi:

Maybe, but I find it hard to believe this will make enough of a difference to tempt large numbers of people into a new purchase (unlike the step between SD and HD) - which would leave developers with a real quandary about which platforms to develop for.

Full out 3D seems too expensive, what with the need of special TVs or projectors. I'm really hoping for head tracking to take off, it's the good enough version of 3D. Obviously there will be graphics updated, but I hope it's not the whole focus of buying a new machine.

I suspect it has something to do with the internet. Look at last generation: Nintendo was all over experimenting with peripherals and alternative controlling methods. Now, they are doing all kinds of things with Wi-Fi Connection.

Don't know what's going to happen exactly, but I think Nintendo is going to do something revolutionairy with the internet.

For Sony and Microsoft? They can either keep ignoring Nintendo and keep attacking each other, which would mean that their next consoles would be their last, or they would do something like the Wii, whichwould probably keep them alive, but in a very minor position.

Good point, MazeMe, I had forgotten that. But I'd guess that something good with the internet could easily be done on the current console - so I don't see that it would push anything special to trigger a new generation.

So, I'm tentatively concluding that unless Sony and MS push into the Wii space somehow we'll have a long wait.

Perhaps the only thing that could do that big time with enough volume is if Sony focussed more on the PS2, but wouldn't that be sort of shooting themselves in the foot?

I can't see MS succeeding in doing that - so probably it'll be a two-way technology battle of some sort.

 Its good to see that someone shares my insight into the future. Consoles and PC's will merge into other electronics like TVs and they will use an ONLIVE type of service with remote servers. I bet my House on it. It may not be next gen but its coming

Well another alternative would be PC like upgrade:

Put two cells into PS4 , upgrade gpu or add another chip for SLI like configuration, similar way for Microsoft and if done properly this could give 100% BC and result in games working on X360 and X720 at the same time.

PC games can support multiple resolution there's no reason why MS can't make it same way for Xbox games with say Gears 3 running 720p on X360 and 1080p at Xbox 720.

So it wouldn't be revolution scenario like previous gens but more of a evolution like pc gaming.