You really have no idea.
A certain store relies on it's pre-owned sales because the markup on them is like 500%.
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You really have no idea.
A certain store relies on it's pre-owned sales because the markup on them is like 500%.
1080p 3D
Blu-ray
Major integration with windows phone & windows (*)
More advanced kinect
Much bigger focus on digital distribution (*)
The starred items are the ones that I think are definitely going to happen. Microsoft is loosing marketshare in both areas and anything that will keep people on their 'ecosystem' is something that they will most certainly include
Blu-ray
Major integration with windows phone & windows (*)
More advanced kinect
Much bigger focus on digital distribution (*)
The starred items are the ones that I think are definitely going to happen. Microsoft is loosing marketshare in both areas and anything that will keep people on their 'ecosystem' is something that they will most certainly include
Plenty of shops will sell consoles. Supermarkets, electrical shops. Catalogue shops. It's easy enough to buy a tv from a shop that doesn't sell coronation street. Easy to buy a cooker from a shop that doesn't sell chips. Etc etc.
I never said it was mate, but its not for me. I collect games as well as play them. I cannot do that with digital distribution only which is exactly the reason I'm not interested.
My current wishlist...
1. More Powerful - This is pretty much a given - but it should be much more powerful than the 360.
2. Smaller Power Supply than the 360
3. Small Console altogether
4. Blu-Ray
5. Focus on Digital Distribution
6. Backwards Compatibility
I also hope they don't focus too much on the motion controls - Unless they are perfect and as fast as a human is, I'm not interested
I'm also equally uninterested in 3D - Which is what I fear the most...
1. More Powerful - This is pretty much a given - but it should be much more powerful than the 360.
2. Smaller Power Supply than the 360
3. Small Console altogether
4. Blu-Ray
5. Focus on Digital Distribution
6. Backwards Compatibility
I also hope they don't focus too much on the motion controls - Unless they are perfect and as fast as a human is, I'm not interested
I'm also equally uninterested in 3D - Which is what I fear the most...
I'm sure that Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo won't lose too much sleep if these types of store go under.
Have you noticed that high street stores are closing down and being replace by big supermarkets that sell just about everything? I'll put my house on it that these stores will sell consoles without games.
mame - absolutely agree with everything you said
SonicUK - "which craft" wasn't aimed at you in particular mate, but i do feel optical media as had it's day just like Vinyl, VHS and Floppies before it. We can't progress if we stand still!
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Virgin Media users can download during the day, my cut off is at 4pm when things start to get capped. (if I go over 3.5Gb that is)
Its about how you implement it.
look at the disaster that was the download only PSP go.
But then look at the rise of Android and iOS devices as gaming platforms. They are download only and they've taken off ! games like Angry birds are hugely profitable for the developers.
It can work, but would only work if implemented correctly. Trying to charge subscription for the same content as you get on the xbox 360 for example, wouldn't work.
Aye but again, iPad is mobile - you can take it round to your Nan's and download stuff from her connection and the size is typically <100MB. If the PS3 is pushing 50GB now, the next-gen file sizes will be even bigger.
My guess would be they stick with Blu-ray. I'm sure the capacity has reached (and gone beyond) quad-layer 100GB which is good enough for next-gen games and still ample for high definition and 3D movies. In the next-gen, the Blu-ray drive speed should be a lot faster - enough to stream data off without installation. Or they could even have some kind of Blu-ray hybrid where the important data is cached off to onboard 8GB of memory and the rest of the data is streamed as necessary.
Wouldn't be surprised to see HDDs go the way of the dodo and let users add their own external removeable drives (possibly using the new Intel Light Peak bus) when they want to download stuff from PSN/XBLA.
My guess would be they stick with Blu-ray. I'm sure the capacity has reached (and gone beyond) quad-layer 100GB which is good enough for next-gen games and still ample for high definition and 3D movies. In the next-gen, the Blu-ray drive speed should be a lot faster - enough to stream data off without installation. Or they could even have some kind of Blu-ray hybrid where the important data is cached off to onboard 8GB of memory and the rest of the data is streamed as necessary.
Wouldn't be surprised to see HDDs go the way of the dodo and let users add their own external removeable drives (possibly using the new Intel Light Peak bus) when they want to download stuff from PSN/XBLA.
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This +1000
The current generation is a dissapointment due to the fact this res is very underused.
They really to up the grunt. 1080p with 4xaa on most games please
Not as much as the amount of sales they'd lose as a result of not being able to sell physical copies in retail locations.
There's barely any profit on the consoles. It's why many retailers declined to stock the PSP Go; if they can't sell the games, why sell the console? I work on the entertainment/electrical section for Sainsbury's, and there's always a push to sell consoles/bundles cheap so people will buy the games and accessories as well, and keep coming back for them. If you remove games from the equation, there's much less profit to be made.
The cooker and chips comparison is void because it's always been the case with games consoles that the profit is in the games and accessories; it's not the same sort of thing at all.
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Shame the features already there are not available for all countries. Makes me so annoyed..
Apart from hardware upgrades I would like to see:
- Re-chargeable controllers.
- Backwards Compatibility
- Blu-ray or at least make it so installing games with multiple dics, you only have to use one.
- Less focus on motion controls :/
And I hope there will be more exclusives
What am i ment to be looking at here!??
1080p deffo
bluray
3d tv support
builtin wifi (i know)
backwards comptability
My biggest wish would be for microsoft to open its licence on periperals so we can get a lot better tech involved, but we know this will never happen.
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Sorry image is a bit small. The caption on that screenshot reads as follows:
'Microsoft XBOX
Confidential/ Collaboration with Microsoft's IEB design group investigating future user experiences and hardware for 2015. "Works samples only permissable in person." ' (March 2011)
From the designer, Ben Peterson's site : Source
Of course, just a rumour at the moment.