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I can't help but shake my head when seeing the current dev kit specs for the next Xbox and whatever they're calling the PS4. I sincerely hope these are just over blown specs or just some fanboy rumors, because there is no way Sony and Microsoft can price those specs within the ball park of affordable. I'm expecting another couple "five hundred and ninety nine US dollars" announcements in the not so distant future if these are finalized specs... Only somewhere in the $800 range...
Yeah, that will be affordable to those of us who have jobs. Sarcasm. I could barely comfortably get a Wii U, I doubt I could ever get one of those as well!
Ugh... not to mention dev costs will go up, making games all the more expensive or filled with crap like required DLC (stuff they take out from the base game and charge you for if you want it back) and what not. I'm really not looking forward to that kind of gaming future...
Not to mention no matter what kind of video chip they put in their consoles, the graphical jump wont be anywhere near as impressive as the jump from the PS2 to PS3 was. From SNES to N64. And so on. The most we'll get is things getting sharper while the edges get less jaggy. The characters wont be any more life-like (hell, I could argue even "realistic" games look like cartoons), when you plug it in your face wont melt from awesome. We'll still have glitches. People humping walls or ragdolls flying through the air. Graphics are not what's important anymore...
What is important is memory, processing, and how indie friendly it is. Not even joking...
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I can't help but shake my head when seeing the current dev kit specs for the next Xbox and whatever they're calling the PS4. I sincerely hope these are just over blown specs or just some fanboy rumors, because there is no way Sony and Microsoft can price those specs within the ball park of affordable. I'm expecting another couple "five hundred and ninety nine US dollars" announcements in the not so distant future if these are finalized specs... Only somewhere in the $800 range...
Yeah, that will be affordable to those of us who have jobs. Sarcasm. I could barely comfortably get a Wii U, I doubt I could ever get one of those as well!
Ugh... not to mention dev costs will go up, making games all the more expensive or filled with crap like required DLC (stuff they take out from the base game and charge you for if you want it back) and what not. I'm really not looking forward to that kind of gaming future...
Not to mention no matter what kind of video chip they put in their consoles, the graphical jump wont be anywhere near as impressive as the jump from the PS2 to PS3 was. From SNES to N64. And so on. The most we'll get is things getting sharper while the edges get less jaggy. The characters wont be any more life-like (hell, I could argue even "realistic" games look like cartoons), when you plug it in your face wont melt from awesome. We'll still have glitches. People humping walls or ragdolls flying through the air. Graphics are not what's important anymore...
What is important is memory, processing, and how indie friendly it is. Not even joking...
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