Not nessicarily from any particular company, but what kind of technology and specifications do you think will be intergrated in the next generation/interation of consoles?

Some things I think they might intergrate.

-High Capacity Internal Flash Memory

-Quad CPU/GPU/PPU/RAM all-in-one processing chips

-Games written on super compact media perhaps SDXC or a similar physical sized medium

-Bluetooth/Wifi or somethng new and better

-USB 3.0

-HDMI 1.4

-Perhaps an intellegent system that slows/redistrubutes the processors/hardware work load when they reach a certain physical temperatures...

-True 1:1 motion contollers

What other things do you think they will improve upon/reinterate?

Well, 1080p 60 fps will be the standard. Companies won't go to a great improvement for hardware to prevent development costs to rise even more and prevent sales at a loss. The graphical improvement will be something like GC to Wii.

I suppose the Audio and Video output could also be wireless, that would be awsome for moving consoles or even hopping from one display to another around the room.

- Late 2012 release, $400 should be the average launch price of a next-gen console
- Either blu-ray or online distribution
- Full body motion control
- 1080p, 60fps and 3D
- SSD instead of HDD
- CPUs should be around 1TFLOPS
- GPUs around 4TFLOPS
- 4GB - 6GB internal RAM, either GDDR5 or XDR2
- USB 3.0, HDMI 1.4, flash card support, backwards compatibility

Do you guys think they will try anything more advanced than just 3D?

I guess I am not very imaginative as to what else they could do. But, I don't really plan on buying a 3D TV at all (might happen by happenstance but nothing I would actually consider as a factor in the buying process).

I do however, think ALL load times and installs should be reduced to somewhere under 500ms while keeping framerates consistant, I do believe new hardware can do this with proper optimization there just needs to be an industry wide standard.

More ram - 1-4 gigs general and 512-1gig video

4-8x BD rom/ram hybred ( Game saves/DLC  on disc )

Backwards compatibility with REAL Enhancements ( more AA better frame rates better upscaling faster load times )

1024 Ram up front for sure. 1080 p max hd output I think. They are getting diminishing returns there and Wii proved grafix aren't all that. Standard ws and whatever each co. is promoting on motion detection. There must be a faster way to get info from the disks but I haven't done my research.

What would be cool would be voice activation and some basic v-recog. to allow messages by just talking at the box, send in-game pics and vids via live and a voice remote multi-disc tray for the extremely lazy gamer. It should sound like Jen Taylor or Hale and call me handsome. So $3700 cdn. so far. How about a jet-pack iff system controlling a garage door in the attic while I'm at it.

- Late 2012 release, $300 should be the average launch price of a next-gen console
- Blu-ray AND online distribution
- 1080p, 60fps and some 3D support
- SSD instead of HDD
- 2GB - 4GB internal RAM
- USB 3.0, HDMI 1.4, flash card support, backwards compatibility

The only specifications which matter are price between $200 and $400 and power consumption/heat disipation between 25W and 125W. Everything else is pretty much secondary and comes under the term 'efficiency'.

I'm imagining my current PC, taking away all of the freedom of a PC, and there's your next-gen Sony/MS console.

I'm REALLY excited to see what Nintendo does, since Motion Controls were such a success, the sky's the limit for next-gen. I could care less about what Sony and MS do.