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PS4 and Xbox 720 Will Mark the End of Console Cycles

March 15, 2011 in Blog comments 8

David Jaffe is at it again. He's become notorious for making some of the boldest predictions for the future of the video game landscape. Check out the newest prediction and the reasons he gives for them. Cheers!

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    Daweii Mar 16, 11
    I doubt they will really. I mean this past week at GDC we saw PC graphics take yet another step up.. When you consider that the dream is Hollywood CGI visuals in real-time, consoles and PC will not stop until Pixar can make a film and port the tie in game with the exact same visuals as the film.
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      HisServant77 Mar 16, 11
      I'm with you on that. Not only that, but I mean come now . . . gamers will never die, and gamers have specific wants and desires, and won't settle for JUST games from the iphone and so forth. His focus is on gameplay only. But we all know gamers wouldn't sacrifice everything else for that alone.

      I think console gaming will continue on until the end of time However, I DO think the only major change we'll see is the possibility of a conglomeration of the gaming companies. The gaming companies may very well merge and work together to begin developing consoles that are too busy competing against PC gaming, to worry about competing amongst each other.
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    Xeros the Slayer Mar 16, 11
    I think rather than the consoles dying like that, this will be more like the last time we see dedicated gaming systems since they're turning into home multi-media centers.
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      Seproth Mar 16, 11
      I think you're right about that. Rather the death of them as we know it. Where they become too much a center of all entertainment rather than just a game machine.

      I do think that they will really start extending the cycles a lot more, they already have really, but even more so.
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        Xeros the Slayer Mar 16, 11
        I think they should extend them at this point, we've hit a level of graphic fidelity that's great even if its not hollywood level cg and games cost enough to develop as it is without hitting some kind of next generation level. The longer you wait it out this gen, the more affordable it will become and the more diversity you'll see as that happens.

        Sure there will be those that complain(mostly looking at the PC crowd and the "consoles dumb down games" ideology) but you can't please everyone.
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      Shinobi_razor Mar 18, 11
      so 1 game system that plays any games, the way a DVD player plays any movie regardless of the production company?
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        Hideo1 Mar 18, 11
        Well that would never happen, since Msoft, Ninty and Sony won't allow it; exclusives are pretty much the only thing separating them.

        I think was Xeros means is instead of getting a DVD player, a music system, a Blu-ray player and a gaming system, people will just get them in one package in the way PS3's were meant to be sold but which never really took off.
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          Shinobi_razor Mar 22, 11
          yes i can see that, in fact theres really no way for that NOT to happen. its almost that way now as it is with PS3 and 360. i believe Hulu is bringing an app out for the consoles too so that adds watching TV to the list of things you can do.

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