Once you bite the bullet and buy Skynet, how much does it cost to keep it state of the art?

Console friends list probably stops lots of people making the jump to a gaming PC these days.

I'm not a PC elitist but I think it's hard to appreciate consoles as much once you've experienced the freedom and flexibility a PC gives you in doing pretty much whatever you want ontop of having more power.

It does make you appreciate developers like Bungie though for putting stuff like the Forge into Halo. They're essentially detailed mod tools that typically only PC gamers enjoyed.

Liveinadive wrote:

I just prefer console gaming.

Is that to do with the ease of just sitting down and having a straight forward gaming sesh?

For those who haven't actually read the article:

According to the leaked docs, it's $300 at launch, comes with Kinect 2.0 as well as 4G augmented reality glasses, BR player and full on 3D gubbins.

And it's codenamed 'Fortazela'.

Liveinadive wrote:

Bollockoff wrote:

Liveinadive wrote:

I just prefer console gaming.

Is that to do with the ease of just sitting down and having a straight forward gaming sesh?

Yeah I think so, also I sit at a desk all day at work, really dont want to sit at a desk at home too.

Fair play. Different working environment for myself so I guess it's as you say, horses for courses.

I heard it's the size of a shreddy, doesn't connect to a TV and comes with no controller - you just slip it under your tongue and hallucinate the whole gaming experience.

Mouldywarp wrote:

I heard it's the size of a shreddy, doesn't connect to a TV and comes with no controller - you just slip it under your tongue and hallucinate the whole gaming experience.

I'd certainly buy that. I don't know if I could get a shredded wheat under my tongue though. 2 maybe, 3 definitely not.

WorKid wrote:

And 4k support from day one.

Fucking benefit thief.

I'd pay (fairly good) money to see someone manage to port Tribes: Ascend to console.

Tempy wrote:

I imagine that would be impossible to control with a pad.

I could do it!

I want the next Xbox/PS to be the size of WOPR from Wargames and run on diesel. I would need planning permission to install one and the games would come loaded onto a film reel.

It contains the entire internet, is very light and be careful not to crush it, pandemonium will break loose

Probably said this before but I value graphical style / art direction much more than polygon count. There are plenty of PS1 games that I personally think look "better" than, say, any modern Call of Duty just because COD does nothing for me aesthetically. Polygon count going up tends to mean higher costs and therefore less willingness to take risks with visuals. As a result, games are actually becoming uglier for me as they get more sophisticated.

Not necessarily, with higher polygon counts and more sophisticated shader technology and suchlike it's much more viable to have complex procedural geometry forming the visuals, which opens huge options for studios to create very beautiful complex environments for a low cost, nevermind opening entirely new avenues for gameplay. In tandem with stronger cpus, you can have much more complex physical modelling along with that, so even a basic example like water becaomes a myriad of possibilities. And also you have something like dynamic tesselation, that can create complex geometry from a 2D image, offer realtime deformation and suchlike hypothetically 'accessibly', that more powerful hardware does not at all mean more money needed and a narrower band of options for developers - especially as developing tools and techniques are becoming more sophisticated the opportunities opened to indie devopers etcetera are becoming probably more exciting than they've ever been, and with faster internet and more awareness to alternative streams for software increasing,these indie developers now have more ability than ever to get their work into the hands of consumers.

I'm quite excited by next gen to be honest

Also it will let you fly with your mind (needed a joke there to seem less po-faced)