They are releasing an underpowered machine that already works on borderline-to-obsoletion delivery, when mobile phones are almsot as powerful as you, and they want to stay 10 years with this? well then i guess game market will be throttled down by MS for 10 years. On the bright side, Sony and PC may flourish and leave MS in the dust. (aid i didnt forget nintedo, but nintendo seems to be doing its own thing and not getting into this fighting).
And lets not forget hardware wear. While i do have a 10 year old PC that is still runing (New HDD, GPU and cooler though), its really old from hardware perspective to the point of noone even making parts with such connections anymore, and its power right now is so low it cant play modern flash games or even watch youtube without lag. Same ahrdware staying relevant for 10 years is irrational claim.
TheEvilCheese said:
Any product in this industry staying relevant for 10 years?
PS2 did.
SpAc3man said:
I seem to recall both Sony and Microsoft saying something similar about the PS3 and 360. Although it was more like 13 years.
They may be hopeful but I think developers will start to get a bit impatient in terms of hardware capabilities like they have with the current generation. 7 or 8 years will be my bet.
Thing is, with current consoles the tecnology was different from PC and it took developers some tuning to, but once they did they could force ahrdware to do more much more directly, thus extracting more power. with new consoles the architecture is very similar, so any optimization done for console will also be available for every PC built, say, after 2009 or so. Thus the gap of performance will become limited only to extra programs running in the background (as we know, consoles still are unable to multitask). So while we will see some increase in output, i wouldnt bet on it being a lot.
Evil Smurf said:
What this means is, my computer still won't need an upgrade

Go shitty non future proof consoles
More like what this mean is that gaminig industry, or at least the part that is dominated by consoles (for example strategy games are dominated by PC gamers) will be artificialy stagnated to keep the requirements low enough for consoles to run it.
Ultratwinkie said:
The PS3 had a cell processor for christ sake and it got ousted in 5 years.
Well, theretically PS3 processor is still faster than modern top of the line CPUs. Though, theoretically, as noone has ever came clsoe to utilizing half of that on an actual game.
MinionJoe said:
If anyone here is still getting productive use out of a P4 (without having converted it to a Linux box or something), I'll eat my hat.
Athlon XP, but a healthy alternative to P4 id say. My dad still browses the web with it almost every day. Do you count that productive use? In fact, Mine is older than P4s, made in 2003, 1,4ghz singlecore.
Shdwrnr said:
I can see this being true if they go an all digital and all streaming route in the next 5 years. The hardware doesn't have to match PC specs in 10 years, it just has to be able to stream from the servers that are actually processing the game in 10 years. That is already possible, they just need to build up the infrastructure for a while. Specs of the XBone and PS4 don't matter if none of the actual processing/rendering is happening on that machine.
This is true. however as sad as it is only few countries in the world have the infrastructure to actually do it, and those arent the biggest costumers.
Kalezian said:
Hell, they might have some sort of VR visors like the Rift while Microsoft will still be playing only on laughably old HD TV's.
Funny thing is, Xbox One does not support SDTVs, yet it cannot run HD either
DrOswald said:
Unless things are much worse than I understand and the X1 wont even sell out on day one. That would be embarrassing.
Well from what news we are getting, companies are no longer accepting PS4 preorders because they ran out of stock. Xbox however? preorder 50 if you want. S there will be plenty on the shelves.
Jingle Fett said:
The $600, top of the line, "most powerful console ever made" PS3 made that claim too.
Well, technically PS3 still is most pwoerful console ever made. Problem was when coding for cell processor.