[GregoryRasputin]

Originally Posted by japsander s. pc / nintendo / sony / microsoft all do well. there is no "better". there is only personal preference otherwise the "better" console would be the only one selling and the other companies would be dust

There is a problem with not being a fanboy of one specific console, it costs you so much more, because you buy all the consoles >.<

[AlexBaka]

Originally Posted by firepixiedarien How it has been with us ever since 1997 when Tifa Lockhart graced us with her lovely huge knockers. It's the controller.

Found it quite uncomfortable while playing recent DMC. Especially when u need to push R2/L2+R1 simultaniously

[razblade77]

Originally Posted by japsander who cares as long as the experience is good **** specs!!! if you "really" care for specs then you wouldnt own a console, you would own a high end gaming pc and you would not be gracing these console forums. pc / nintendo / sony / microsoft all do well. there is no "better". there is only personal preference otherwise the "better" console would be the only one selling and the other companies would be dust i will wait til i play firsthand before casting my judgement on any console. likey = buy it no likey = no buy even consoles that are high spec can flop

if specs dont matter whats the point of new consoles, why dont we just stick with our current conosles then?

[japsander]

Originally Posted by razblade77 if specs dont matter whats the point of new consoles, why dont we just stick with our current conosles then?

easy. new features/functionality and the fact that new games are exclusively on new systems.
its not all about cpu/gfx but implementation and immersion. the projector for the new xbox looks awesome and the augmented display alleged for both new systems look awesome too. graphics wise, new systems cant be that much better as pc isnt that big a leap in graphics and we all know that consoles wont match a gaming pc

personally i DO stick to what i have even after devs stop creating games for the system but that doesnt stop me buying new systems to play the new games too

i wont however diss a console due to its lower spec and choose the one with most power like many do because sometimes the more powerful systems are worse than the inferior ones

like i said, personal preference and nobody can deny that nintendo do extremely well, even though their hardware is assumed to be a generation behind proving that beyond a doubt, its not all about which console has the biggest dick

[firepixiedarien]

Originally Posted by japsander easy. new features/functionality and the fact that new games are exclusively on new systems.

But the new functionality is because of better specs.

[japsander]

Originally Posted by firepixiedarien But the new functionality is because of better specs.

dont be pedantic lol.

i think you know exactly what i mean.

so you are saying that the one with most powerful spec is the "only" one that is good and any with lower spec have inherently failed?

look at wii-u specs for example. inferior by comparison specwise but has new functionality/features

compare psmove to kinect. which is better specwise and which is better functionality wise (personal preference)

if specs were all that mattered like i said then consoles would not exist as they are inferior to pc's potential specs

my point (which is ignored AGAIN) is that the most powerful is not always best. whichever gives the best experience is best. for me, thats ALL consoles

specs are important as obviously they are needed to drive the system but they are not the thing that makes a console succeed or fail and not the thing that decides which console i buy hence the "F**K specs!" statement

im what you might call an anti-fanboy. a rarity these days. so rare in fact that there is no official commonly known term for it that i know of

[rocknard]

Better specs= better inmmersion, better integration with the pj's, and more.

I think a girl on psx is not same that a girl on ps3. "Realistic" and "credible".

I need to learn more english xDD

[VIRGIN KLM]

Originally Posted by ICECOLDKILLAH 8 CPU cores running at 1.6 gigahertz (GHz) i hope this is only in idle...

Yeah, exactly what popped out of my head reading this but still 1,6 GHz is damn slow even for today's standars for idle, If I were Microsoft wouldn't go anything less than 2,2/2,6GHz-ish if I wanted my console to not struggle to keep up with the competition and make the hardware look weak in less that 1,5 year from the launch. Simply put, putting in 2013 1,6GHz in a gaming console would limmit it's lifecyrcle to not more than a couple of years, if that, plus I doubt Microsoft will make again a new XBOX than soon.

EDIT: Adding to what I said above, they (Sony and Microsoft) must have learnt their lesson with not investing to future Specs-wise. We live in a period where you need to give an extra resource space that bugs and development issues will take advantage of, especially now that we have the new species of "boredom developers" (*cough* Bethesda*cough*) that they don't even bother ironing out their faulty (if not absent) optimizations.

[firepixiedarien]

Originally Posted by japsander so you are saying that the one with most powerful spec is the "only" one that is good and any with lower spec have inherently failed?

No, I thought you and some other people were saying,

"Better specs is not needed, at all."


But what you guys are actually saying is:

"Better specs is always good...if it's fully taken advantage of."

for example, PS4 having a 32-core CPU, but games developed for it only max out at using 16 of those cores. So there's nothing wrong if the better specs are always fully taken advantage of right?

[DClipp]

Meh, I'm sure Windows 9 will play Durango games anyway