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The next generation of consoles are just round the corner. Excited? Genuinly excited? Developers are fast running out of ideas for consoles. How powerful can a system get before people get bored with it? By the time PS3 & Xbox 2 arrive, the ideas for new and unique games will have all but died. So. Where will we go then? PC games will probably go the way of consoles. I think the answer lies in handhelds.
Up until now handhelds have sort of taken a back seat to home consoles. But only now are developers realising the true potential of portable consoles. Imagine the possbibilities... I think gamers are going to have to come to terms with the fact that consoles are dying. And developers can only come up with so many ideas before turning towards new things. Handhelds, I think, are the future of gaming.
Up until now handhelds have sort of taken a back seat to home consoles. But only now are developers realising the true potential of portable consoles. Imagine the possbibilities... I think gamers are going to have to come to terms with the fact that consoles are dying. And developers can only come up with so many ideas before turning towards new things. Handhelds, I think, are the future of gaming.
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The next generation of consoles are just round the corner. Excited? Genuinly excited? Developers are fast running out of ideas for consoles. How powerful can a system get before people get bored with it? By the time PS3 & Xbox 2 arrive, the ideas for new and unique games will have all but died. So. Where will we go then? PC games will probably go the way of consoles. I think the answer lies in handhelds.
Up until now handhelds have sort of taken a back seat to home consoles. But only now are developers realising the true potential of portable consoles. Imagine the possbibilities... I think gamers are going to have to come to terms with the fact that consoles are dying. And developers can only come up with so many ideas before turning towards new things. Handhelds, I think, are the future of gaming.
Up until now handhelds have sort of taken a back seat to home consoles. But only now are developers realising the true potential of portable consoles. Imagine the possbibilities... I think gamers are going to have to come to terms with the fact that consoles are dying. And developers can only come up with so many ideas before turning towards new things. Handhelds, I think, are the future of gaming.
I value your opinion, but I do not think handhelds will be the future for gaming. Consoles or voice activated screens or holographic images projected into a room or space may possibly be where we are heading.
Holograms just aren't going to happen, and voice-activated screens? Where the hell did that come from, and what does it matter?
No, like Ninty's been saying (and it's pretty obvious) - eventually, console's are going to hit a barrier where better graphics just aren't possible any more. And where do you go from there?
I doubt PS4 could really improve that much over PS3, or any of the next-gen consoles.
Handheld will eventually come up to speed - look at the leap from GBA to DS, it's bloody massive, bigger than any recent technological gaming leaps. The same'll happen, until handhelds can perform exactly as the top-spec consoles and easily sail on past.
No, like Ninty's been saying (and it's pretty obvious) - eventually, console's are going to hit a barrier where better graphics just aren't possible any more. And where do you go from there?
I doubt PS4 could really improve that much over PS3, or any of the next-gen consoles.
Handheld will eventually come up to speed - look at the leap from GBA to DS, it's bloody massive, bigger than any recent technological gaming leaps. The same'll happen, until handhelds can perform exactly as the top-spec consoles and easily sail on past.
Yes, handheld is the future, unfortuantly. I prefer home consoles and I hope there around for alot longer.
I prefer playing on a big tv.
I prefer playong consoles on a big TV but I love handheld for long journeys.
FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> Holograms just aren't going to happen, and voice-activated screens?
> Where the hell did that come from, and what does it matter?
>
> No, like Ninty's been saying (and it's pretty obvious) - eventually,
> console's are going to hit a barrier where better graphics just
> aren't possible any more. And where do you go from there?
> I doubt PS4 could really improve that much over PS3, or any of the
> next-gen consoles.
>
> Handheld will eventually come up to speed - look at the leap from GBA
> to DS, it's bloody massive, bigger than any recent technological
> gaming leaps. The same'll happen, until handhelds can perform exactly
> as the top-spec consoles and easily sail on past.
You say we will eventually reach a limit, but people said the earth was flat at one point... Dont know if you have been to America but there games arcades are a lot better than what we have here in the UK. They have 3D goggle games, you are actually on a platform and that is why it is only possible to have arcade machines of it but 3D is definatly the way forward i feel, although i feel this could be even past the PS4 era.
> Holograms just aren't going to happen, and voice-activated screens?
> Where the hell did that come from, and what does it matter?
>
> No, like Ninty's been saying (and it's pretty obvious) - eventually,
> console's are going to hit a barrier where better graphics just
> aren't possible any more. And where do you go from there?
> I doubt PS4 could really improve that much over PS3, or any of the
> next-gen consoles.
>
> Handheld will eventually come up to speed - look at the leap from GBA
> to DS, it's bloody massive, bigger than any recent technological
> gaming leaps. The same'll happen, until handhelds can perform exactly
> as the top-spec consoles and easily sail on past.
You say we will eventually reach a limit, but people said the earth was flat at one point... Dont know if you have been to America but there games arcades are a lot better than what we have here in the UK. They have 3D goggle games, you are actually on a platform and that is why it is only possible to have arcade machines of it but 3D is definatly the way forward i feel, although i feel this could be even past the PS4 era.
Hedfix wrote:
> I prefer playing on a big tv.
Linking up via an adapter to a TV would be easily possible....
And you unplug the device to take on the go...
Online a standard.
Eventually Handheld gaming would be as good as home systems, and these home systems will become obsolete.
> I prefer playing on a big tv.
Linking up via an adapter to a TV would be easily possible....
And you unplug the device to take on the go...
Online a standard.
Eventually Handheld gaming would be as good as home systems, and these home systems will become obsolete.
PSP will at last offer real performance to the handheld market. Developers will quickly start making PSP versions of games like MGS, GT4, GTA, Quake, and so on. And with games like that on PSP, which look like proper games (not the 2d p!ss poor stuff on the GBA), most people will never look back. There will be some that must have their Nintendo, no matter what, but there will be less of them as times goes by.
I think the DS handheld will be limited to 128Mb, but the PSP will hold upto 1.6Gb. So those games for PSP like MGS will never make it onto DS without being transformed into some thing very basic. A bit like that XBox game that also launched for GBA (cant remember the name), it was turned into a 2d platform game.
And will the next GBA use the same 128Mb memory as the DS? If it does, or is similar, it also will be very limited compared with PSP.
And will the next GBA use the same 128Mb memory as the DS? If it does, or is similar, it also will be very limited compared with PSP.
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