[citation][nom]caedenv[/nom]I predict that the WiiU will be ok, but not a great boost (unless there are some real games). But the X360 and PS3 are not going to last another 3-4 years before a hardware refresh. They are already way behind the times of what people expect in the high def world, and people will lose interest unless they come up with something in the next year or two.[/citation]
no, thats only people who care about graphics over everything else in a game, they are a vocal bunch, but i don't think a majority of people share their vision of needing 4 300$ graphics cards to play a game, and need to revamp that setup every 6 months to be able to continue gaming.
the wiiu will be interesting to say the least, because i can imagine it being the way we play fpses from now on, i can imagine the while game being played on tablet attached to a gun... heres hoping someone does this right...
right now, unless you have a very physics centric game, the consoles can handle it
[citation][nom]omninmo[/nom]hmmmmmm I think rising smartphone CPU/GPU power, and improvements to conectivity will eventually kill dedicated consoles, but still enough time for one more generation..phones already have HDMI outputs and decent power in them, as soon as someone crams wireless HDMI or some other way to render games on a TV with no wires, and powerful quad-core mobile chips a couple generations ahead of us with some decent GPU punch start coming out with this, it's game over for consoles...i think.. let's hope not, as I've allways enjoyed my gaming on dedicated PCs/consoles[/citation]
me and allot of people will never use a smart phone as anything but a phone, because when the battery dies, you cant make calls.
what i forsee is smartphones getting scaled back, or at least stunted in their growth.
people will start to carry 2 devices, a phone, and a everything else. that way the everything else dies, you still have the phone. with how small they are getting, this isnt hard to forsee, and if it only has to be a phone... you can see them getting allot smaller, or more portable, to the point that 2 devices is nothing.
but it is entirely possible that next console cycle, from microsoft and sony, you will see a 10 inch tablet and a docking station for it to hook up to tvs, considering that by 2013, tablets will equal consoles in power, they may take the generation off of increasing the power, move over to a new form factor, where its a tablet and all, it has that app space, but it also has the AAA disc through a dock, and controllers through it too, this way they could move to a 2 year cycle of developing, and sell the systems cheaper at a 300-400$ price point, and kill off the ipad in the process... think of it, if they had the app support, which they would, and the faimaly has even 1 kid, why wouldnt they chose a padstation or an xpad over the ipad?
i mean they make a cut of every game sold, and app sold, they could sell at a slight loss or break even and still pull profit, even at a 2 year cycle.
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