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I'm not surprised at all by this. The current systems are quite robust and very easy to update and upgrade via the net. The old systems were only as current as the day they were purchased but with the technology and connectivity we have today that is no longer the case.
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04-21-2011, 04:35 PM | #5 |
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Great- I like getting long life out of my hardware. This should make the consumer happy. It's amazing what they've done with the xbox360. Hopefully, Kinect will be standard on the next one. It won't see a ton of applications until everyone has one.
I imagine the next gen will also have all hard drive-based storage, maybe without a disc drive. Blu Ray drives will be cheap enough by then that they might be included though. If it had one, this and a receiver would be the only two boxes you'd need next to your TV. I'd also be interested to see new ways of rendering graphics more efficiently than drawing polygons and texturing them. I read a year or two ago about a prototype graphics system the worked like a search engine. The world was all mapped out in fine detail with voxels (basically, tiny pixels), and based on your perspective at that moment all the correct pieces of the scene would be pulled down and displayed. So, you have tons of little pixels, but just display the ones necessary to make the image, rather than having to re-render all these tiny polygons for every frame. http://unlimiteddetail.wikia.com/wik...etail_in_Wired Oh yeah- I see 3D being big for the next-gen consoles. This is where the real killer application of 3D will be- gaming...not movies. By 2014 it'll be a fairly small price increase to add 3D to a TV. Can't wait to get my 60" Flatscreen 3d LED for $1k. Last edited by carve; 04-21-2011 at 04:42 PM.. |
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04-21-2011, 04:53 PM | #6 |
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are you kidding? Both consoles are dated as fawk. My iPad2 has the same amount of ram as a ps3.
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04-21-2011, 05:06 PM | #8 |
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Unless you count Angry Birds then all three can compete!
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04-21-2011, 05:13 PM | #10 | |
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That being said, it's amazing what the PS3 can do considering how long ago it was designed. Last edited by ragingclue; 04-21-2011 at 05:24 PM.. |
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04-21-2011, 08:49 PM | #14 |
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Only thing that surprises is the quality of gaming we're getting out of 6yo consoles. When released, the x360 was surprisingly cheap for what it offered hardware wise, and still keeps amazing even though it's relatively weak today.
If apple ever enters the gaming game, I guarantee they'll release new hardware every 1 or 2 years, and make bank off idiots who upgrade their devices every year. |
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Six years ago, your ultimate gaming computer is for sure what now would be considered shit. You can still develop great games for consoles although their age is showing. For the money, it's amazing what the console developers did. I'm a PC gamer at heart, but that's just makes it all the more real exactly how monumental it was what they accomplished with this last gen of consoles. Credit is given where credit is due. |
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04-21-2011, 10:16 PM | #20 |
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Nope, 1080i for many and 1080p for some (native, not upscaled)
Granted, 720p is what current gen consoles target and that's just due to their hardware limitations. As mentioned above, software dev still has developments improving graphics in other ways. Last edited by yakev724; 04-21-2011 at 10:37 PM.. |
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But the xbox can upscale to 1080i, I believe.
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04-21-2011, 10:40 PM | #22 |
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It can't natively do 1080p. It renders in 720p and upscales to 1080.
Well the last time I read about it anyways, they might have updated the firmware or something |
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