Next-next gen consoles, why bother?

[Fragony]

N64 was brilliant at the time.

Ok, the next Wii is going to rock. It gets many a title you wouldn't expect and it's going to be cheap. The controller looks like a tablet, cool stuff with great potential, they showed some great idea's. It's also fully backwards compatible.

#want

[edyzmedieval]

I'm sticking to my PC.

[Graphic]

I'll upgrade from my PS3 when blu rays become obsolete. Its the only reason I own it.

[Fragony]

I'm sticking to my PC.

Wash before you hug it, it's warm there

[lars573]

The N64 was a very good console, it was the best in it's era. What let it down was the mass privacy of Sony's game titles since everyone and their pet dog used to rent a game, copy it via the pc and burn 10 copies of it and give it out.

People who used to have a Play Station all had it "chipped" and they all had pirated games.

Using unfounded generalities are fun! I never knew anyone who had a chipped system. I heard about them of course. The N64 might have been a capable system, but being cart based chased away developers in droves. They were all wanting to put fmv's and CD audio on their games. Things the N64 couldn't do until the end of it's life time, and they were crap quality. That and Sony's attitude about the relationship between themselves and 3rd party companies.

So really then as now it's about software. I liked both, had both. The PS1 with it's audio could give you some much more immersive games than the N64's walls of text and 2 second sound clips.

I'm sticking to my PC.

This attitude was dangerously backward 6 years ago. It's a shameful fossil in two thousand and eleven.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

This attitude was dangerously backward 6 years ago. It's a shameful fossil in two thousand and eleven.

lolwut? Consoles are the shameful fossils.

[lars573]

Wrong.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Wrong.

By what standards are you comparing consoles to PCs and coming to the conclusion that PCs as a whole are fossils compared to consoles?

[a completely inoffensive name]

Wrong.

No you are. The most profitable game in the history of gaming (WoW) is PC based. Steam sales grow higher every year and it doesn't seem like that trend will even slow down in the near future. Modding capabilities drive new gamers to express themselves creatively in ways they could not have done in any other medium.

Consoles are only around because Moore's Law drives the industry to advance faster than people have money to upgrade. Console came about as a cheaper alternative to pesky PC upgrades that were expensive and meant to be simpler than PC gaming. Ironically, now that this generation of consoles has stuck around for so long and will be around for another 3-4 years at minimum, developers are doing more with less hardware wise and the entire point of a console is negated by the fact that my 1 year old casual laptop can run Fallout: New Vegas on ultra high settings perfectly because Gambyro is a 7 year old engine that was not replaced until Skyrim due to the challenges of trying to get something better looking on such old technological hardware.

[Graphic]

^ I think laziness has more to do with Bethesda sticking with Gamebyro than the "challenge" of making something that looks better. The new Fallout games are ugly even by console standards.

PC > Consoles though

[Beskar]

Using unfounded generalities are fun! I never knew anyone who had a chipped system. I heard about them of course.

They are not unfounded, it is pretty much fact, especially here and highly responsible for the success of the playstation 1 system. The disks used to be bootlegged at my school for like a £1 each, everyone swapping and sharing, leading to a mass intake of consoles. Even someones father used to make a real killing from chipping consoles for £10, and supplying the latest games onto people.

Infact, I basically knew no one with legitimately owned games, perhaps one or two were legitimate in a collection of 20+.

[lars573]

Your own personal experience with PS1 and piracy=/=the whole story. I never had a single pirated game, nor did I know of anyone whom had a great number of them. Many I knew had a mount of legit games and not a single stolen one.

[Beskar]

Your own personal experience with PS1 and piracy=/=the whole story. I never had a single pirated game, nor did I know of anyone whom had a great number of them. Many I knew had a mount of legit games and not a single stolen one.

Well, since you are stating it is just "personal experience", you clearly do not know the situation as well as you are attempting to make us believe.

[Furunculus]

This attitude was dangerously backward 6 years ago. It's a shameful fossil in two thousand and eleven.

lol, i'll be sticking with my pc too, bakward or otherwise. :p