LazyGunn wrote:

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)

g.man wrote:

Let's face it, no one gives a flying fuck about kinect, and Microsoft should have been savvy enough to predict that. It was the wrong answer to a problem that never really existed. Nintendo and especially the Wii target completely different demographics to Microsoft and the Xbox brand. It's niche rubbish that should never have seen the light of day, and ironically a year or two on it' s also dated really badly as tech, as do most techy things that really never catch on. shit sandwich g.man