December '05 - December '10 = Half a decade. Simple mathematics.
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360 was released at the end of '06 so I could say it is 2007 and add 5 years - thats 2012.
PS2 released 5 years after PS1 and PS2 has been out for 7 years now.
Wrong. I'm definitely right. December 2nd 2005.
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Think it came out December 2nd 2005 or there abouts, so 2010 december is correct
edit... beat me to it
End of 2005, remember the month well.
Your mixing your dates up with the PS3, the PS3 came out at the end of 06 the X360 was a year before that.
Sony have planned for the PS3 to be around in one guise or another for 10 years - now I guess for 6-7 of those its going to be the premium choice
That means roughly 5 -6 years after initial release the devs should have something in their hands....
That means roughly 5 -6 years after initial release the devs should have something in their hands....
Ms should whack another console out for sure. It would be a great blow for sony, they couldnt even claim the awesome power of the cell any more. They wont though for a couple of years though because it would upset developers too much. Hopefully when they do they will as said keep the hardware 100% compatible. Id love to sit in one of their R&D meetings about the "720"
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I think Sony will have the new playstation out by 2011/12, the new xbox maybe a year before, but i reckon the Wii 2 will be out a lot sooner than both of them. Sony mentioned the PS3 having a 10 yrs life span doesnt mean 10 years before the PS4, be like the PS2 is now, and thats still going to be around for another couple of years. For some reason I think the PS4 will have a cell cluster to do all the GFX/CPU work, good thing about the cell is thats its designed to be used as a multi CPU environment and is now being implemented in many super computers in such a way. This may also make it slightly easier for developers to work on the PS4 as they will be used to the cell by then although not as a cluster. IBM already have the cell running at 6GHZ so 8 cells running at 6Ghz would be a pretty powerful machine.
Still think we'll see a new DS and new PSP before any of the next gen consoles though, depending on how well sales are going.
Still think we'll see a new DS and new PSP before any of the next gen consoles though, depending on how well sales are going.
I expect the Wii to be the first to be updated, December 2010 in US/Japan. Will move to HD and will have gfx power inline with its competitors. Probably fully compatible with Wii games and peripherals, but will have some new interaction capabilities. Like some of the youtunbe vidies where a small headmounted wiimote type thing is used to control direction.
Microsoft have always been vocal on releasing 3 consoles from day one, then seeing how it goes. They took a massive piece of the market with the Xbox360, without reliability issues on the XBox3 then they will take a bigger chunk.
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Do game developers really need to up the graphics and art even more?? I really do think we will be hitting a limit soon with graphics.
Really what more can you get from fps? and how can game studios afford to keep up. Expectations are getting ridiculously high.
Really what more can you get from fps? and how can game studios afford to keep up. Expectations are getting ridiculously high.
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There are still huge limitations on todays games graphically. Dont forget that to render something like a car completely flawlessly would take a top end workstation a fair few hours maybe even days....per frame!
We are a long way off perfect decades easily
I would say 2011 in general. I think Microsoft and Sony will release their consoles much closer to each other next time around. I have no idea what Nintendo will do, they are very different when it comes to what they want to aim for. I would much rather they try to push more and more in the new consoles of what the current consoles can do, such as Gears of War-esque graphics in extremely large and open areas.