MS: 'We want to be first again with Xbox 3'

[Solidsnake3000]

Well They shouldn't make a new Xbox so soon What will happen to us regular 360 members will we be discarded like the original Xbox users. Hmm..... I think they should just order people to send back their xbox's and llike put a HD DVD drive in them so programer can have more space and they won't have to worry about piracy because HD DVD is dead so they would be the only one who has them.

[osgeld]

the 360 has a dumbed down version of a ati 9800, the ps3 has a pimped out nvidia 7900gtx, nearly 2x as fast and a full generation ahead

[paul3100]

Hmm i had/have a 7900gtx but after just over a year it started to go belly up

I think 5 years sounds right for a games console considering the speed of technology, i think the ps2 is beginning to look not much better than the ps1 for graphics since seeing all these new 3D gen games.

We could trade our last gen consoles in and get a 3D of the price and then sony/MS/N could sell the last gen to 3D world country's and continue selling and making games for them and make loads of £££$$$

paul

[jdnation]

I believe the PS3 will last a good 10 years.

Even NVidia has gone on record expecting that hardware powerful enough to power photorealism is expected to be reached in 10 years which would be the right time to release PS4.

Sony has invested a lot into the PS3 and they'll be sure to try and bank on it for the longest time.

The PSOne was supported for 11 years. The PS2 is still going pretty strong. Sure another system is out but the point is the old system is still being supported.

As for backwards compatability. Sony have learned the hard way over the PS3. In order to save costs there will be no old hardware in PS4 to play old games, however all BC from here on out will be software emulated. Sony have already reported been hiring programmers who can work on solutions to emulate PSOne, PS2 AND PS3 games. No doubt starting this now and steadily working on it will make it useful to implement into PS4 right out the gate, not to mention that it'll be handy for digitally distributing the titles as well which would be more handy 10 years from now when high speed bandwidth and internet usage increases and cheaper high storage memory is available.

[mcdougall57]

I believe the PS3 will last a good 10 years.

Even NVidia has gone on record expecting that hardware powerful enough to power photorealism is expected to be reached in 10 years which would be the right time to release PS4.

photo realism is out now have a gander at this:-

http://www.viddler.com/explore/engadget/videos/27/

I know crappy quality video but this is what I would expect to be consumer grade in 10 years at the current slowdown of processor speed gain.