[quote=“Heretic Agnostic”]
You make good points in general alavaliant, but with that statement you don’t come across very informed for making this specific judgement. XBOX was a fairly slapped together project and MS had little direct involvement in the design anyway, and that’s their single precedent. But on the subject of this generation you should know that X360 is probably the most ironed out modern console ever designed. Unprecedented planning and design evolution has gone into trying to achieve functional parity in all processes. Their “Application-Specific” buzzword really seems to be more than just hype to go by developer reception so far…[/quote]
Hmm on the 360 I’m still holding my judgement. I’ve seem some developers rave about it but at the same time behind all that raw power is they need to write code that rather than being single threaded must now handle several cores in a balanced fassion to use the full power of the system. Some programmers will be able to but many of the smaller developers I doubt will be able to for a while until they get up to speed on how different multithreaded programming can be.
Seems like an interesting gamble from Nintendo to me. Perhaps it’ll work. Perhaps not. At least from what I’ve seen of this new controller of theirs though… well, I don’t like it.
Let us not forget… switching styles doesn’t come too easy. The jump from the small Saturn pads to the nice, big, round, analogue Dreamcast pad was something that took me ages to get used to (or rather I adapted reasonably well but had major difficulty thereafter using the old Saturn pads) …
But this kinda looks like its going even more extreme, though its hard to be sure from such a vague image.
Avoiding graphical confrontation is probably a good gamble as far as I’m concerned… but concentrating on freakyweird peripherals? I’m definitely not so sure there.
Nintendo are getting desperate. That much is for sure.
It might fall to the awesome power of Microsoft to whittle S*ny away now.
… That is of course unless Apple decide at any point to get in on the console business (not that I’m sure why they would… but I bet they’d probably do quite well).
[quote=“SotiCoto”]Nintendo are getting desperate. That much is for sure.
It might fall to the awesome power of Microsoft to whittle S*ny away now.
… That is of course unless Apple decide at any point to get in on the console business (not that I’m sure why they would… but I bet they’d probably do quite well).[/quote]
I dont think Nintendo are desperate, they are very much attempting to differentiate themselves which will pay dividends if it works out.
If Nintendo deliver on the promise of being much cheaper they stand a chance to do well. I think now that DVD players are widespread the whole multimedia functionality of the next gen consoles may be played down a bit. Did the PS2 and Xbox having DVD playback matter? Not for me, for a lot of consumers I think it did. What does the next gen offer? PC media streaming? Blu-Ray? I dont think the mass market will care, only the tech savvy, who buy flashy kit like the X360 and PS3 at premium prices anyhow.
As for Apple being successful in the console business, ever heard of the Pippin? Hahahaa
Well that’s a completely different issue from the comment(s) I was responding to, you appeared to be trying to say the Rev is likely “faster” relative to the other consoles than the numbers alone indicate. BTW you do know that in this coming generation all 3 are using IBM CPU’s don’t you? General code will be processed by PowerPC architecture in all cases so any differences in clock speed can be considered significant at face value.
But for your new argument yeah, it’s kind of obvious, Rev will be a lot simpler for most developers to get to grips with since they’re pretty much saying there’s nothing new in it. And if X360 has 3 CPU cores running faster than the Rev’s single core then even if only one core is being used that still makes it faster. To say nothing of the GPU which is after all where any major differences in visual sophistication will actually arise.