wow, i just had to sign up to correct some of the ignorance shown on this forum.
Firstly the 360(and PS3 for that matter) are both already well out of date. The hardware in these machines is poor at best by todays standards. PCs have already gone through 3 generations of graphics hardware (nVidia's 8,9 and 200 series and ATi's HD2K, 3K and 4K). In fact console hardware wasnt even top of the line when it came out. Not to mention severe improvements in processors and memory, the PS3 and 360 are falling far behind the times.
munx13 said:
That's nice to hear. Consoles will be more affordable.
Maybe this will also hold down developers from pushing the already expensive PC hardware too much as well.
PC hardware isnt expensive, you pay more to get the latest technology. Just like when a new console is released. Are you suggesting from this statement that you would like the 360 to last forever, and that no-one should bother to push the limits of technolgy and improve it?
FloodOne said:
Onmi said:
Abedeus said:
Yeah, but PS3's main point of sell is graphics. In 5 years, PCs will be strong enough to emulate PS3 without much trouble. Hell, in two years we will have much better graphics AND fluid gameplay.
Right.
And how far along is the PS3 emulator?
That's what I thought.
Pffft, you need a top end computer just to emulate ps2 hardware.
A PC that emulates the 360 and ps3 may be two years off, but will cost about a thousand dollars to get running. Why not buy a 360 and ps3 for $600, and have $400 left for games and controllers?
Do you people even know what emulation is? Its creating software to "fake" a hardware configuration and reprogram a game to work on a different hardware. So not only do you have to have hardware good enough to run the game, but you also have to have a computer powerful enough to constantly change coding sequences, encode and decode data, etc. In order to do this at any sort of speed you need a damn powerful computer. Quit trying to make out that somehow because a PC cant emulate a console it isnt as powerful, I would love to see someone try (and fail) to get a gameboy game to run on a 360, no chance!
As for not bothering with emulation and getting a console, the point of emulators isnt to play PS3 or 360 games on todays PC hardware, the idea is to play these games on your PC in 3 or 4 years time. When your 360 has passed away and no new games are coming out, you can play the old classics on your PC without having to try to search ebay for an xbox that still works!
And for whoever said for the PS3's selling point being graphical power, are you mad? I would argue that MS putting asside an extra cache of graphical memory for dedicated AA is a much smarter move than pinning all your hopes on a "powerful" processor. In my opinion my 360 often outshines my PS3 graphicly with cross platform games.
On a more positive note some of you are using your brains, a 10 year life cycle simply means 10 years of support (support being the key word). So we will be seeing another console well before then, and the sooner the better.
