[ViperMM]

Originally Posted by poorguy Jeffe simply means that all consoles have reached ...

I disagree that no more can be added. First and foremost to that 3d is still in it's infancy. Hologram projection is far from end-user marketable. After Hologram touchable holograms like the holodeck on Star Trek.
/me wants to bang the Spice girls
Those are only video based technologies now take into account sound next.
After sound try and work out better AI.
Etc.
EDIT: to clarify by better AI I mean full human brain emulation for each and every emulated human.

[Annelies]

Originally Posted by ViperMM Annelies y u no irc anymoar

I dunno. I just haven't felt like going in. Is my nick still registered? O_o

[poorguy]

Originally Posted by ViperMM I disagree that no more can be added. First and foremost to that 3d is still in it's infancy. Hologram projection is far from end-user marketable. After Hologram touchable holograms like the holodeck on Star Trek. /me wants to bang the Spice girls Those are only video based technologies now take into account sound next. After sound try and work out better AI. Etc. EDIT: to clarify by better AI I mean full human brain emulation for each and every emulated human.

I stand corrected. U had me at 3D the AI clarification. There still is a lot of level playing field left there. But I don't have high hopes on hologram technology. And what possible developments in sound..???

[ViperMM]

Originally Posted by poorguy I stand corrected. U had me at 3D the AI clarification. There still is a lot of level playing field left there. But I don't have high hopes on hologram technology. And what possible developments in sound..???

Sound... smaller and many many many more speakers.. heck 5-7.1 is pretty standard these days. As you see on the leaked Orbis specs 11.1. Heck I would actually like to see surround sound come right out of the TV. They could do this by shooting sound across the room and bouncing it off walls.


Okay, I have just realized this guy is right. 2012 Mayan prophecy. xD Okay, Okay last bit is trolling I still think he's wrong.

[poorguy]

Originally Posted by ViperMM Sound... smaller and many many many more speakers.. heck 5-7.1 is pretty standard these days. As you see on the leaked Orbis specs 11.1. Heck I would actually like to see surround sound come right out of the TV. They could do this by shooting sound across the room and bouncing it off walls. Okay, I have just realized this guy is right. 2012 Mayan prophecy. xD Okay, Okay last bit is trolling I still think he's wrong.

Come on... "Mayan prophecy"... And its simple I suppose.. the louder the better, right????

[Cheesethief]

I would rather not give full authority of my paid for merchandise to some company holding servers hostage.

How would I play when the internet was down? Not at all. Cloud gaming sounds like the future, but it is one I would rather not be in.

Also, how would gaming companies make people buy new hardware when the people already know that processing is being taken care of by a remote server?

[WalangAlam]

PC needs vc, mobo, mem upgrades to catch up with the latest games which cost much. I never upgraded my x360 and ps3 yet I'm still happy with their graphics.

If those handhelds, smartphones, ipads, etc have 32" to 59" display then I will go mobile. Nothing beats playing in a wide screen.

[Annelies]

Originally Posted by WalangAlam PC needs vc, mobo, mem upgrades to catch up with the latest games which cost much. I never upgraded my x360 and ps3 yet I'm still happy with their graphics. If those handhelds, smartphones, ipads, etc have 32" to 59" display then I will go mobile. Nothing beats playing in a wide screen.

An $800 gaming PC would suffice your gaming needs from now all the way until the end of the next gaming generation. That is only $200 more than what the PS3 costed at launch and it runs laps around it.

[SuperDre]

Originally Posted by KMM This guy has balls, and i believe in what he said. It will all go to the PC, way more powerful, a thousand times better graphics, "cheaper" you dont get RSOD or YLOD

No, it WON't go to the PC, it will go to cloudgaming, which requires nothing but a simple display and a controller, even the PS3 or xbox360 can be used for cloudgaming..
And sorry, but PC's also get RSOD or YLOD, I've already had 2 graphicscards overheat due to bad cooling, I've seen soooo many defect motherboards, memoryunits go bad, or HDD's/SSD's crash..

I too think the nextgen consoles are the last consoles, everything will just go cloudgaming through your TV (samsung is already putting it into their TV's). Also for publishers cloudgaming is much MUCH more interesting as it isn't possible to pirate the specific games anymore, also for gamers it's interesting as they get a netflix like account, so you can play any game which the service has (which will continue to grow exponential and also contain retro games) for a specifc ammount per month.. Ofcourse it will take some time before this will actually take off for mainstream due to the need of a good internet connection.. I think in about 10 years we'll all game through services like GaiKai and OnLive (next to the old games on our old consoles)..

[japsander]

this is bull**** IMO

there is still a vast amount of areas with little to no access to high speed internet access and that is not going to change anytime soon as suppliers are too busy speeding up access to existing fiber networks and ignoring those millions still on copper wire connections.
in major cities/towns 50mb broadband
villages and rural towns = up to 8mb adsl lol (avg 1-4mb) look for example how much of the uk is rural lol and providers have no interest in upgrading them as their main profit comes from cities where they have competition.

in UK there is no consideration even for LLU unless 1000 residential properties in the area want it. many exchanges only cater for 500-1000 so they are never up for a change

its all well and good someone with unlimited bandwidth and hyperspeed internet making these claims because they see it through rose tinted glasses.

there is no way the manufacturers will purposely throw away sales from these people. to do so is suicide.

if we all had nice connections with no limits then i would agree but playing gakai / onlive on standard adsl connections is like playing ps2/xbox 1 again. i was in the gakai beta program and even when my connection reached an all time high of 4.5mb adsl (not download speed) with a ping of 50 the experience was very disappointing and i am considered to have a good quality broadband connection for rural. even now, the experience is no better.

are the manufacturers going to state that all those in rural areas are not permitted to game? i think not.