[citation][nom]guardianangel42[/nom]You're serious aren't you? I'd laugh but for some strange reason I don't find this particularly funny.Focusing game development on gameplay and the experience as a whole is MASSIVE mistake? So what you're implying is that the only thing new hardware is good for is more realistic graphics? Not better and more complex enemy and NPC AI, not increased NPC count that adds to immersion, not destructible environments.The only thing that matters is graphics because, since all of the above increase the gameplay experience, they don't matter.You also imply that current gameplay styles, including rudimentary shooter experiences, is fine because what really matters is how realistic the explosions look.Now, if you didn't mean any of this, then I'm sorry to say but you suck at communicating because claiming developers focusing on gameplay is a MASSIVE mistake implies you believe all of the above.[/citation]
ok, lets look at the direction they too with their alternative gameplay, and what microsoft did, and what nintendo did.
the move, while good, faild to be good over a long period of time, only produced gimick games, and even when one came along that tried to do more it beat you over the head with "you are playing a move game ZOMG LOOK MOVE AND IT MOVES"
microsoft shoved steel battalion into the kinect... seriously, google that. GOOGLE IT NOW
a game that was a mech sim, that required a 4 button controller 3 peddles and 2 joysticks.
their idea of alternate gaming is to make it move, kinect, or a waggle fest... if they had ANY idea that showed promise, i would be behind it... the wiiu has potential but so far its been crapped away,
you see i dont give a damn about what the graphics look like over all, im ok with ps1 quality so long as the resolution is high enough i don't see jaggies. but when they say media hub and not focusing on graphics, i hear waggle fests possibly no controller and needing to buy a new system for it too... see what scares me the most is if the next system takes off, or if sony somehow kills the ability to support the ps3 if the 4th is a failure, and force people to buy a new system, for ps3 quality games with a worse controller.
hell im also afraid that microsoft is going to do it too. hell they increased the price of xbox live JUST so they could put espn on it...
look, this is what 8 year old hardware that they are potentially JUST putting something powerful enough to run a ps3 game at full 720p or 1080p or hell could just be a ps3 quality that can upscale to 4k.
the only part i give a damn about in games is the texture quality, its the only part of a video game i refuse to compromise on, but look at this nvidia tech demo.
http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQQpCd_vvGU&feature=youtu.be&t=3m58s
that is what a well done tessellation map can do. realistically you could put whatever you want on the console and the pc would just get farther draw distances, thats what i want, but the console needs to be powerfully enough to handle the 30-50% overhead this adds.
that and higher textue detail are really all i want for the pc
and lets go with your example... explosions looking better, to be honest thats all many games have going for them is how pretty they can look, so yea, i want better hardware, not just ps3 with 20% faster hardware (a rumor of what the 360 is is that they are shooting for 20% faster than the wii)
[citation][nom]virtualban[/nom]Agreed!Virtual Reality is the next generation. That will sell. Everything else will stagnate.[/citation]
i want the console to have occulas rift from day one mostly because there is a VERY good chance the average consumer doesn't support it because "3d sucks" arguments, or "i don't want to ware glasses" that i have also heard, if the consoles support it from day one, at the minimum they will sell 500k of them (the kinect sold at least 5 million and it barely works) and 500k would be enough that publishers push support, and that support would make more people but the rift...
my only fear about the rift is if its a pc only thing it may get next to no support... sure there is id, and from what i hear, the rift makes doom 3 scary, valve, which makes how many games a year, and to a lesser extent sony (i think they are trying to make a competitor apposed to pushing support in games) but will that really be enough?