Which next generation video game system will you buy?

Nintendo all the way!

 

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Nintendo Revolution is the way to go.
Why?
Because updating hardware for graphics and better processor speed isn't going anywhere.
We'll reach realism pretty fast with this trend. But before that we'll reach another barrier: human capacity.
Hundreds of instances of complex AI with realistic models and textures are all very nice, but are we capable of actually making it?
Let's say we are. It'd be a horribly long and tedious process. So you can imagine development time + production costs sky-rocketing.
A result of this would be the death of small companies.
Only big developers will be able to create affordable and good-looking games.
Final results:
-less original games
-less games in general
-high prices

I really don't want that happening. Therefore, research into different aspects such as virtual reality and interactivity are far more interesting. I wouldn't mind playing some "inferior" graphic games, but with high realism because of interactivity.

 

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I want to get a Revolution but I am afraid it will go the way of the Virtual Boy.

 

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Development of a successful game is a horribly long and tedious process and production costs are sky-rocketing. Game developers are being bought out or pushed out by the larger publishers which has already resulted in less originality and less games in general. Game prices have always been steep. I remember paying $60-$90(AUS) in the late seventies for Atari game cartridges and it could be argued that the dollar has been de-valued since then making games these days very expensive indeed.

 

Well yes. And it's only getting worse.

 

It about time one of these consols sprouted a VR head set. I used my first VR head set in 1991 and tech has come a long way since then.

 

Indeed. I think the golden age of gaming was when the Amiga was in it's prime, there was an extreme amount of games available and individual developers could code an entire game on their own. I think what is really lacking these days is a simple language\IDE purely designed for game development. Anyone should be able develop a game and learn how to program at the same time as many have learnt website development. Of course an individual is unlikely to compete with the large publishers but I believe it'd make for a reasonable flow of originality in games.

I used the LifeSavers VR system in 1993 and thought it was great and if you asked me at the time I would've predicted that by now we'd have been spending most of our gaming time in VR environments. I'm surprised few seemed interested in VR

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That's strictly a console to console issue you mention. Back then there were no PC to console and vice versa ports. These days, there are lots of games that go for both PC and console and if a game is good enough, the other system will ask for that other game to be made for them. Because of that, PC companies have a huge share in consoles now and most of the PC companies don't like the PS3 because they have to come up with their own code which costs multi-millions of dollars to come up with before the game even starts whereas with the XBox 360, it's more PC code friendly and they can hop right into it saving millions of dollars. Yes, the developers go where the money is and that coding issue IS a huge reason for them to prefer the Xbox 360 over the PS3.

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Edit: Browsing this forum again and seeing this thread, it just hit me. The PS3 is also having major backwards compatability problems so you won't be able to play all your old PSX and PS2 games on the PS3. Another MAJOR flaw against it.