Originally posted by: BenSkywalker
and PS3 is not a success for Sony > so i SPECULATE [like with r700] that there will NOT be a PS4 ..
Year over year PS3 sales are up 98% in the US(its' relatively speaking weakest market) it is tracking ahead of the 360 and PS2 for installed based over time on market and it is DEMOLISHING the revenue stream the PS2 generated in the same timeframe. The PS3 has buried HDDVD is pacing to surpass the 360 in installed base world wide by the end of this year(after being a year late to the market, by way of comparison the XBox dealing with the same situation was utterly demolished due to the same gap) and is currently on track to easily best everything but the Wii this generation.
Given the fact that sales wise, PC gaming is very, very near death- I would think that people would want to see the consoles at least do well so there is some hope at ports for the PC at least. Let's face it, the sales on the PC are far too low to warrant $30Million budget games- they aren't uncommon on the console side.
For your comments on DX10.1(lol) games choking the consoles and resulting in their failure- The PS2 couldn't handle all of the DX6 features and still stomped the PC in a rather dominating fashion right through the DX9 era. In terms of the market gamers>>>tech whores
I have every system as I refuse to miss a game because of some extreme nonsensical tech bigotry, but I am very unusual on these boards as I still care more about the games then the team red v green flames.
nVidia and AMD have the console makers over a barrel? You can't say you honestly believe that? Want to see what would happen to them if the three console manufacturers all decided to adopt Intel's new rendering technique and pump billions of dollars into game development based on that rendering technique? Intel would damn near give away their graphics solutions for a chance at that. They would be handing over the overwhelming majority of the gaming market in a single move. nV and AMD aren't so stupid. Sony already showed they could pimp slap the R300 core with a Voodoo1 class graphics chip when it came to generating revenue.