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mibuokami on 26 July 2009
Mummelmann said:
mibuokami said:
I find it puzzling that a new console would launch a mere year after the Natal / PS Dildo inniative (assuming it will hit 2010). MS especially seems to be pushing Natal as the 'next step in gaming evolution' so it would probably be a bitter pill for it to arrive a mere year before the next Xbox. Perhaps it will be forward compatible with next gen console?

MS and Sony motion controls are still in their infancy and will be tack-on's if they're ever implemented at all this gen. I think they'd rather release a refined version of them for the next generation where they can start from scratch and tailor make software, hardware, accessories and dev kits for it. (Pluss, I don't think we'll see a next gen console till late 2011/early 2012).

PS: Lol @ PS Dildo! That's exactly what I thought when I saw it!

To introduce such a major add-on to the hardware profile this late into the console's life cycle (2010 will mean 4-5 year depending on the console) is pure folly if they plan to cut this short (ie standard life cycle), the money spent on RD, production line not to mention potential consumer backlash would be bad in so many ways. I don't expect a next gen console from MS/Sony until 2012 at the earliest.

As for Nintendo, now there's a difficult question... firstly they're in the black from the start and their hardware iteration sees the most need / minimal fuss for upgrade. On the other hand, considering the target audience of the Wii which I believe by a majority aren't overly concern with graphic (if they were they'd have gotten a HD console!) I can't see them proceeding ASAP either.

If fact, I believe Nintendo's next console needs to be just as revolutionary as the Wii to capture the same momentum the Wii did and that takes time to plan and develop. I am extremely doubtful that all they'd do is make a 'HD Wii' like so many people assume would happen... We'll see though.

And yea the since Sony never bother to give the damn thing a name, I've dubbed it moniker of PS Dildo, heck it even glows lol XD




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Mr Khan on 26 July 2009
Alterego-X said:
mibuokami said:
I find it puzzling that a new console would launch a mere year after the Natal / PS Dildo inniative (assuming it will hit 2010). MS especially seems to be pushing Natal as the 'next step in gaming evolution' so it would probably be a bitter pill for it to arrive a mere year before the next Xbox. Perhaps it will be forward compatible with next gen console?

Even on the day they were announced, I suspected that both motion controls are supposed to be released with the next generation only. 

 

Just look at Sony's PurleWand! It was obvious from the presentation's amateurishness, that they didn't plan to show it, it was just an escape plan in case Microsoft shows something too. So they grabbed some PS4 controller prototype, and bluffed. 

Microsofts presentation was more planned, but it was still weird with no release date, no actual games, no price, and no free hands-on demo. I could be wrong, and maybe they honestly only prepare for a peripheral launch that is as big as a new console's, but as you said, it just doesn't make sense to release it that late in the generation. 

 

If I would have to choose, the 2011 release of the next generation is much more probable, than the launch of NATAL in 2010.  

This is a very good point. I mean, Sony themselves admitted the the device was still in prototype mode. No reason to make that claim unless they were <b>really</b> early in the cycle. Plus the fact that the tech demos had next to no presentation values.

 

Natal i'm less sure about, but your idea is readily applicable. And it adds to my own theory that Microsoft should know that, as an add-on, Natal will be incapable of really giving them a fighting edge against Nintendo. Instead, it will merely confuse the market further, especially if they continue to sell any non-Natal units (which i think they would, for fear of alienating the "hardcore")



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sinha on 26 July 2009

I don't see how this means next generation systems from Sony and Nintendo will be released by 2011-2012, if anything it just means new systems from Sony and Nintendo will NOT be released until 2011-2012 at the earliest.



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