no PS4?

linkin said:
@ ScottALot

Your attempt to convert us PC users have failed, have a taste of your own medicine...

CONVERT!!!



:P
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ummmm you do know Crysis 2 is coming to Xbox, and PS3 as well?
 
Aastii said:
@Twist, aren't emulators legal anyway, so long as you actually own the console + games and get the necessary files (eg the BIOS) from your own device? I know they don't get endorsement from the actual companies that produced the console, so it is all community made so therefore isn't completely without its bugs, but if anything I think it is better that way
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No emulators are legal if you own the systems but they are not smiled upon either. Since technically you can then pirate games so it opens the door for pirating :)
 
I think they are still trying to reach the limit of the PS3. Uncharted 2 looked great. I don't have any complaints there.

They may have lost or broke even on the PS3 console, but licensing and other stuff has to have made them some cash. The PS brand is just too huge for them to give up.

Move is also looking to be the best motion control, which gives them another field to play in. If they can also become a leader in 3D gaming then they will rake in more cash.

What has hurt PC gaming for me is the resale of games. I like that I can buy a used PS3 game for 40 bucks and probably sell it for 40 bucks when I'm done in a month or two. With PC games these days you tend to be stuck, or at least it's a risk that the number of installs hasn't been reached yet for the serial key.
 
Consoles are very expensive to make, something David Reeves, former deputy president of SCE worldwide, knows all too well. Now COO of Capcom, he talks about a beautiful vision of the future, where companies like Sony and Microsoft work together to make consoles.

"When you're on the first-party side, you realize how really, really expensive it is to develop a platform. Whether it's PS3, or Xbox 360 or even Wii, they cost millions - maybe not billions, but absolutely millions,” said Reeves. “You don't know when to put that stake in the ground of technology and move on. You know, say 'that's enough'.”

"Eventually, it may just become so expensive to develop that Microsoft and Sony say, 'Okay, let's get together.' I'd say it's between 10 and 15 years away,” noted Reeves. “That's how long I think it will take. I don't think it will be the next console cycle, but probably the next cycle after that, where you might have something platform-agnostic.”

Of course, the gaming industry is in flux right now and it might not be Sony and Microsoft. "But it might be different players, of course,” noted Reeves. “It might be Google getting together with, dare I say, Microsoft, or Google with somebody else."
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http://www.thealistdaily.com/news/david-reeves-talks-combined-sonymicrosoft-console/

i found that pretty interesting.. nothing concrete obviously, but i think it sounds like a great marketing and financial idea. why not monopolize the console gaming market?
 
The downside is with no competition Droogie your gonna pay for it in the end. When there is only 1 console out they can charge anything they want :P
 
Aastii said:
That is cloud gaming, that is nothing like my invention
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i know, its better.you dont got to buy upgrades.the hardware is at the main center where they render it for you and you just play it on your t.v/computer screen.I read an article a while back about computer hardware upgrades might go obsolete.as in there will be one main computer that renders everything and it will stream it to your screens.
 
tech savvy said:
i know, its better.you dont got to buy upgrades.the hardware is at the main center where they render it for you and you just play it on your t.v/computer screen.I read an article a while back about computer hardware upgrades might go obsolete.as in there will be one main computer that renders everything and it will stream it to your screens.
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It won't catch on any time soon because computers aren't powerful enough and most people don't have fast enough internet.

It also won't catch on because people like their own computer if you get me. And another reason that it won't catch on (My invention will massively help with this, in fact it would probably be the best way to do it) is because you need a PC, there isn't a console version of it yet so far as I know, and most gamers are console gamers (xbox, PS3 and wii combined), not PC
 
Aastii said:
It won't catch on any time soon because computers aren't powerful enough and most people don't have fast enough internet.

It also won't catch on because people like their own computer if you get me. And another reason that it won't catch on (My invention will massively help with this, in fact it would probably be the best way to do it) is because you need a PC, there isn't a console version of it yet so far as I know, and most gamers are console gamers (xbox, PS3 and wii combined), not PC
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your missing my point here.games in the future want be on consoles it will be streamed to your t.v,no hardware needed.i would rather play all the games through one source instead of three different ones(ps3,xbox360,wii).im thinking it will be more like the internet is the console,where all the games are played together though one source via internet.no more buying 1,2,3 or even 4 consoles to play all the games you want to play.theoretically speaking.
 
tech savvy said:
your missing my point here.games in the future want be on consoles it will be streamed to your t.v,no hardware needed.i would rather play all the games through one source instead of three different ones(ps3,xbox360,wii).im thinking it will be more like the internet is the console,where all the games are played together though one source via internet.no more buying 1,2,3 or even 4 consoles to play all the games you want to play.theoretically speaking.
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I understand what you are getting at, but you would still need hardware, you can't just have it streamed straight to you.

With TV now, not games, just TV, you can get cable, you can get just terestrial (idk if you have something like that over there), but you still need an arial, and your TV still has to have the necessary hardware to decode the signal it is getting. Even with TV, the hardware doesn't stay the same.

Cable boxes now are much, much different, have more features, are more efficient than they were 10 years ago, terestrial TV isn't an analogue signal any more, it is digital, we now have 3D channels starting to creep in and I have no doubt that in another 5-10 years time, we will have lots of different things.

Now, even with all of these changes, people are still out there with 5+ year old TV sets, and to take advantage of some of these updates in technology, they will need to splash out on a new set, however if I were to design, create and market my invention, you would be able to buy a TV which utilises it, and then you could keep the same TV until that TV dies, because everything would be on this card. It wouldn't be the cost of a new TV, or a new digi box, or getting a new line put in, it would be the price for the PCB, and that is it.

The only time it wouldn't work is if something came out that radically changed the design of TV's, like they go holographic or something, but there is no way around getting upgrades then, there isn't a way to bypass buying new hardware to do that
 
Just to put my 2 cents in lol, I think the PS3 will be still be around for at least another 10 years. Look at the situation today, they are still making games for the PS2, which is a 10 year old system in itself.
 
PS3 is making huge profits now,along with PSN

PS4 has been hinted by SCE to be in planning stages

Not to mention the PS3 is about to overtake the xbox 360 in global sales. Sony are doing just fine. OP reads way to much negativity.
 
tech savvy said:
your missing my point here.games in the future want be on consoles it will be streamed to your t.v,no hardware needed.i would rather play all the games through one source instead of three different ones(ps3,xbox360,wii).im thinking it will be more like the internet is the console,where all the games are played together though one source via internet.no more buying 1,2,3 or even 4 consoles to play all the games you want to play.theoretically speaking.
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I don't like the fact I pay them money and wont own any of my games or consoles. Personally I hope that day is far far far away.
 
Twist86 said:
I don't like the fact I pay them money and wont own any of my games or consoles. Personally I hope that day is far far far away.
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What?lol. it will be like steam, you buy the games and it will stay with you.they will be registered to your online account,as in, you login and choose a game you want to play(that you already purchased online).
 
I dunno. It would be somewhat typical management stupidity and short-sightedness of them to go "sales were bad, therefore consoles are dead, let's not do them any more" when the reason PS3 started off so bad was that it was simply ridiculously expensive and no one would buy it, because of another case of typical management shortsightedness and overconfidence (i.e. "herr derr were gods lets throw in really expensive components price it at $1000 and call it a day theyll buy it fo sho and sell their parents stuff if they have to").
 
tech savvy said:
What?lol. it will be like steam, you buy the games and it will stay with you.they will be registered to your online account,as in, you login and choose a game you want to play(that you already purchased online).
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No most of them you pay subscription per month and you get access to all of their games, you don't own the games
 
Aastii said:
I understand what you are getting at, but you would still need hardware, you can't just have it streamed straight to you.

With TV now, not games, just TV, you can get cable, you can get just terestrial (idk if you have something like that over there), but you still need an arial, and your TV still has to have the necessary hardware to decode the signal it is getting. Even with TV, the hardware doesn't stay the same.

Cable boxes now are much, much different, have more features, are more efficient than they were 10 years ago, terestrial TV isn't an analogue signal any more, it is digital, we now have 3D channels starting to creep in and I have no doubt that in another 5-10 years time, we will have lots of different things.

Now, even with all of these changes, people are still out there with 5+ year old TV sets, and to take advantage of some of these updates in technology, they will need to splash out on a new set, however if I were to design, create and market my invention, you would be able to buy a TV which utilises it, and then you could keep the same TV until that TV dies, because everything would be on this card. It wouldn't be the cost of a new TV, or a new digi box, or getting a new line put in, it would be the price for the PCB, and that is it.

The only time it wouldn't work is if something came out that radically changed the design of TV's, like they go holographic or something, but there is no way around getting upgrades then, there isn't a way to bypass buying new hardware to do that
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Aastii said:
No most of them you pay subscription per month and you get access to all of their games, you don't own the games
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With OnLive, you don't own the game, technically, but you can pay for a Full Play pass and have unlimited access to the game, without paying any monthly subscription fee. It works over the internet using your current PC/Mac hardware, or you can buy a STB and plug it into your TV. I suppose it's a good idea for those that want to play the latest games without having to pay for an expensive PC upgrade. They claim no high end hardware is required; everything is rendered at their data centers and transmitted over broadband.

An interesting concept but I dunno if it will take off or make console/PC gaming obsolete.
 
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Well i'd like to take a baseball bat to my xbox 360, that would convert it into somethin usefull(a $300 stress reliever). 1 year and going on my forth pice of junk console. I sware microsoft hates their costmers. Because if they didnt their os wouldnt have so many registry problems and their consoles wouldnt have hardware failyer every time you stuck a game in it. You would think gamers would take it on themselves to come togeather and creat a systainable gamming system. For anyone looking to buy a 360 google it.
 
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