As reported by Fudzilla, industry insiders have confirmed that the release of next generation consoles will begin in the year 2012. Due to the current economic conditions, both Sony and Microsoft have made the decision to delay the release of new hardware by at least two years."Games still look good on both Playstation and Xbox, but Wii could definitely use some sort of facelift, especially when it comes to graphics. ATI and Nvidia will fight for the GPU dominance while IBM has a good chance to win the CPU deal. If Intel ever makes [Larrabee] work, it will also try to go after the console GPU design but we are very confident that they have very little chance for success. Maybe they will team up with someone and make their own console, it would not surprise us."
In contrast to these rumors, however, Michael Pachter, gaming research analyst for Wedbush Morgan Securities, has stated that the next generation of consoles will not arrive before 2013, if at all.
Thank you to Neowin member Ci7 for the news tip.
I'd like to second that. Except that I have yet to see anything to support any of those statements. It just makes sense that they only mean't to imply that the 10 year lifecycle of the consoles was just for those consoles alone. They can still release new consoles too. It's not likely that we'll see something anytime soon but you never know. Just because we're not hearing or seeing anything about it doesn't mean it isn't happening somewhere.
It wouldn't be hard, move all the chips to 45nm, put the CPU and GPU on the same die to save board space. Replace the tray DVD drives with thinner slot ones ala laptops, then the last step would be to work out how to use the HDD drives with the new design. Or scrap those and go with a new one that would fit better.
Actually, Microsoft also said this.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/360-...ecycle-says-kim
I'm gonna have to agree with Pachter, 2013 seems to be the right date. I think these new controllers will extend the life of the new consoles for quite some time. I don't agree about their never being another generation again, however. That's pretty absurd. 512MB of unified memory simply isn't enough for games by 2015, lol.
The PS2 game out five years after the PS1, but the PS1 had a "ten year life cycle" because they continued making and selling them right up until the eve of the PS3 launch. This is what is meant by a ten year life cycle.
Yeah, I have to say that I've played games on the PC, but for me the experience you get when you are playing on a console is 10 times better. I think it comes down to preference obviously, but I much prefer a console personally.
If you do decide to get one, I had both a PS3 and an XBox 360. I got rid of the PS3 recently as I never really played it. I really think the XBox 360 is a much better console IMO. (Please no flames, it's my opinion).
aint no way NEW console systems will come out, revised systems YES, but new from the ground up HELL NO
aint no way NEW console systems will come out, revised systems YES, but new from the ground up HELL NO
Agreed, no way this is accurate. There's plenty of years left in game development on both consoles. Just another story to stir the pot.
They have already redesigned the internals several times to deal with the 54+% failure rate, AKA "Red Ring of Death"
Just saying.
Look, it may very well be 2012 but thats the sort of time frame I think most reasonable people had in their head all along anyway.
Especially in times like this when the economy is unstable & people are panicking about spending too much money.
Especially in times like this when the economy is unstable & people are panicking about spending too much money.
Yes, it would be a foolish time to release a product like this. No one would be able to buy it, and then when things improve your competition releases something better. They'd be screwed...
yeaaay, and then they would have to emulate powerpc code to be backwards compatible :p
just like xbox 360 has to emulate x86 code to be backwards compatible :p
let me tell you; don't think we will see an architectural change in the next generation consoles.
(ok, maybe sony, because "it's supposed to be hard to program for the PS3"-style bull****)
So basically look for a die shrink 360 slim with a possibly integrated 'Project Natal' built in depending on how Natal is connected to the 360. And a new console from Nintendo with support for 1080p and a Hard Drive and geared towards online play.
My $.02
Would be pretty crazy, but it could happen. Wii HD is a bit of a wild card, everyone knows it's in the works but who knows what shape it will take. Capcom was ready to go ahead and implement controls similar to RE4 Wii in RE5 with the new motion controls. If it gains wide acceptance, it could fuel desire for the Wii HD. If Nintendo follows up with an evolution of its motion controls or some other surprise, who knows what could happen. It would still have the Classic Controller as well, and the system would be overall better than the 360/PS3.
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How do you quantify something like this? How did you you measure it?
This is a discussion on Major Nelson clarifies too: No new console, we're not even halfway through this cycle within the Xbox 360 forums,
why was this posted again on neowin ?
this is the 2nd time and the answer is the same
Major Nelson clarifies too: No new console, we're not even halfway through this cycle
This is a discussion on Major Nelson clarifies too: No new console, we're not even halfway through this cycle within the Xbox 360 forums
I bet will be released sometime around 2013 - 2015
see what i did there ?
Realistically, only Wii will release a new console. And it won't be expensive, possibly HD. But don't expect Wii to battle hardware with PS3 and 360, because that is not their consumer base.
A few games have succeeded in doing this. To do so they had to host the game experience on their own servers though, so the cost may be considered prohibitive. I know that at least some of those games also required you to pay the publisher an annual fee for the online play service, which I'm sure was to cover this cost. Off the top of my head, I think two games that did this were Phantasy Star Universe and the one Final Fantasy game. I'm pretty sure about those two. But then you had extra fees for the service as well...
I agree though that that would be amazing, but in order for that to happen Microsoft and Sony would have to work something out, and I just don't see that happening.
Wow. What a ridiculous statement... Of course there'll be another console at some point... LMAO
Microsoft Said in a public statement no new 360 anytime soon why was this topic not pruned by a admin thigns are really going downhill at neowin .
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