By "both sides", do you mean Sony and Microsoft? Personally, I wouldn't be so sure of that. There are two things that I'm fairly certain of: First, if they wanted to get into an arms race, both consoles wouldn't share such similar hardware. Two, if changes are requested, they're probably going to be requested unigquely by either Sony or Microsoft to set their console apart.
I mean AMD and Microsoft or AMD and Sony. I don't think AMD will be telling who is doing what, but I would think each other have quite a bit of information about each others respective consoles.
Well, the development teams can't really be a small group of people. You've got to have pretty decent amount of folks involved, starts with the managing board as it's a big decision to make, the heads of the financial departments to calculate whether it's paying off and, of course, the R&D department. Maybe even the marketing department.
You make it sound like you think it's like someone building a PC for themselves, making his mind up to pick a different graphics card over what he initially wanted. Doesn't it occur to you that this is a bit bigger?
There is most likely a lot of people behind making the next consoles happen. However certain things will be kept top secret internally and the Playstation conference also showed this being the case.
And there's a very distinct possibility that they'd have to start over with the development of the cooling solutions, have to re-evaluate the power consumption and so on and so forth.
They would know what they are developing for. Even if they made last minute changes that weren't even in their plan, Sony is not some small company that can't react to something as relatively simple as this.
We're how far away from release? Less than a year? And how long has the console been in development for? The last three years? More? What do you think has Sony been doing for the biggest part of the development cycle? Do you honestly think that it takes years on end to develop a console if you can just twist it around a year prior to release?
They aren't using 3 year old technology. They have their known targets I am sure internally, good thing for both Microsoft and Sony is working with AMD, they can leave finalisations of hardware quite late and still be able to make it to market in time.
Sounds like you're just trying to come up with reasons as to why you might get what you want.
They might keep things as they are, I am just hoping they have something extra as it is most likely going to be another long generation.
Lost out? Sony and MS were probalby just unwilling to pay the price NVIDIA asked. NVIDIA, as a company, is in much better shape than AMD is - and that's been the case for years.
Clearly they lost out, they couldn't match what AMD could deliver. They were probably only a small consideration by Microsoft and Sony given they are behind in GPU department in the area Microsoft and Sony were probably looking for. Intel on the other hand has a process node advantage which was probably looked at but most likely too expensive compared to what AMD could deliver, overall very efficient SoC, and flexibility of having one company do most of the hardware.
Absolutely but look back through some general next gen thread and GT6 threads, a lot of people were certain a PS4 could be powerful enough for 4k games. It was pretty funny.
Why do you think that is not the case now? I am quite confident we will see some 4K games for PS4 in near future just using the one console. What I think would be better though is like some games PS3 multi-monitor feature, if there was a way on using two PS4s to do 4K gaming instead of developers lowering peak graphics quality to make 4K possible on one console.
Personally speaking, I'm not interested in the nextbox despite not knowing much about it. I have two reasons: 1. The fact that it will almost definitely not be released in Japan and 2. The rrod debacle.
As for my first reason, this is purely a location based problem and not really a criticism of the console itself. The whole rrod debacle really soured things for me though. I was about to buy a 360 when original reports on the rrod surfaced and decided to hold off. I decided to wait on a revised system that would have fixed the problem. Though the reliability has improved, the rrod hasn't been eradicated and as a result, I haven't bought a 360. At this point, it's so late in the generation that I wouldn't bother unless Microsoft released a new 360 that was dirt cheap. I know that the ps3 isn't 100% reliable but it is far better in that regard.
So those are my reasons. Neither really have anything to do with the nextbox, so it's not a criticism of the console itself. I will still keep an eye on things but unless a sudden return to Europe or North America is on the cards for me, I'll be sticking with playstation. I like a lot of what Sony are doing with the ps4 although I have no doubt that microsoft's next console will be similarly impressive.
They should be making a cheaper Xbox 360, hopefully they make one that doesn't destroy game discs if you move console. I wonder if Sony will combat this by making a new smaller and cheaper to manufacture a slimmer PS3 too. I don't think it is looking that good for the Wii U.
It will be interesting to see what is happening regarding next Xbox in terms of power. New development kit seems to have been made and this time having 2 APUs so if this is true, probably challenge PS4 in top graphics level.
It's like you have something against me, always checking my posts to write something negative to me. At least I'm not always mr. negative everytime.
