Console Upgrades haven't worked (The Sega 32X, CD, and the N64DD for example), so no, I wouldn't.
Upgradeable Consoles.
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In my vision installing RAM would be like changing cartridges on a Nintendo DS and installing an new GPU would be like changing games on a NES. I believe that the Angry Video Game Nerd has this amazing act of daredevilism down to less than 3 seconds. It would be simple and non-scary, your games would just look better and load faster.notyouraveragejoe said:
It scares me too. Like a ghost. ahhhhhh. Sorry, I thought I saw a ghost, but it was just my computer. ahhhhhh, hardware.rokkolpo said:
As it stands, console games are made specifically for the specs on the console. In many cases, upgrading wouldn't really affect much other than load times.
Yes.Marq said:
Surely you are not telling me that consoles don't already have a ridiculous design. Also:
Imagine this 20 years later.
I don't see how this effects anything, except you would get new warranty for new hardware. Your console might be out of warranty but your brand new GPU still has 2 years left.
nn mate.
Why the fuck would you do that? I can see faster load times for some games, but if a game was built for a certain speed, amount of RAM, graphic quality, etc, giving it more RAM won't do shit, and if the game is built with the upgrade in mind, then it's just worse off for the guys that never bought it. PC gaming can be quite complex for this precise reason, and since with consoles you don't have to worry about stats, it just makes it better, doesn't it? Any PS2 game will play the same way in any PS2, and the simplicity of that is part of the reason people like it.
this has already happened with the n64, you could exchange the ram to double size (8mb instead of 4)Hateren47 said:
and that would improve the graphics for fps games like turok or perfect dark.
alot of games supported it and majoras mask and donkey kong 64 required it but alot of them supported it like you said
There are 61 games that supported the expansion pack counted them from the wikipedia page
The entire point of consoles is that they are a cheaper, standardised and simpler alternative to PCs as a gaming platform. They're for people that do not have the money or inclination to buy and maintain a gaming PC. That's how I see it anyway, so upgradable consoles just seem like a waste of time to me.
I think its an awesome idea that I have thought about many times myself. My only issue would be if games started requiring system requirements.
Surely you are just trolling now. If by chance you are not, please let me know when you figure out the point you're trying to make. I said the systems in my vision (project X1080, PS4 and the Hoo) would still be simpler than Windows (as in a full blown PC you build your self) and then I lost you.heavymedicombo said:
Remember the Sega CD? The 32X? Yeah, upgradable consoles usually don't work out too well.
Standardization is one of the selling points of consoles; it makes game development quite a bit easier.
Standardization is one of the selling points of consoles; it makes game development quite a bit easier.
The point of a console is to keep hardware standards consistent across developers. It keeps console development easy, allowing devs to optimize for one specific level of detail instead of dozens of variations in-between. They're able to depend on one specific polygon count being the magic number they have to shoot for with any particular asset, give or take. They're able to depend on a specific resolution for textures being the maximum resolution. For these reasons we can generally count on console games to be reliable and release schedules are frequent enough that devs can release products often and make some money but long enough that they can put some quality into a title... usually. There's always some exceptions, but we know they deserve to be banished to Hades for their incompetence because, as I say, the hardware is standardized and they have no excuse for not knowing how to deal with it.
You're proposing that we remove this consistency. This is a bad idea.
You're proposing that we remove this consistency. This is a bad idea.
Don't mind me, I'll just be right here in my pond, playing on non-faulty hardware with other small-fries who found that they didn't have to play on a console that breaks every few months and costs $60/year to play online.LordCuthberton said: