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So the last batch of Next Generation consoles have revealed themselves and shown us al sorts of great thing s that weren't possible on older machines.
More characters can be shown on screen. We have internet deathmatches, a complete demise of slowdown and a new age a reliability (apart from the Xbox :-D)
What I'd like to know is how things will advance from here.
More powerful machines might be able to create better graphics and put in more realism but apart from trivial details like that, the industry can't go forward much further.
Gone are the days of pixellation that made the 32bit age ugly. The graphics might get better but not noticably. Despite a HUGE difference in power, the PS2 games look not much different from DC ones.
There won't be another generation of consoles for atleast 6 years now and I can't imagine any radical improvements either.
Personally, I think that the next generation of consoles will ignor the need for a TV.
This has started already. The PSOne has a screen of it's own and handhelds have nearly reached the 3D 32-64bit stage.
Another way that this could happen is that games will be played using holograms (an idea that I've mentioned hundreds of times but has been ignored every single damn time!) where the console shows the game's characters as holograms on your very own floor.
Having a micro machines racing round your living room or have 2 characters beating ech other up on your own settee.
Borrower sized people for you to take pot shots at with a light gun or have earoplane dogfights around the light bulb.
I know that there are flaws like you'd have to have your entire living room in the computer's memory to it knew that if a character ran into your sofa it would have to hit it instead of going through it but it's the next step forward.
Either way, with the likes of me and Grix producing games in 5 or 6 years, you can certainly garauntee a bright future :-)
More characters can be shown on screen. We have internet deathmatches, a complete demise of slowdown and a new age a reliability (apart from the Xbox :-D)
What I'd like to know is how things will advance from here.
More powerful machines might be able to create better graphics and put in more realism but apart from trivial details like that, the industry can't go forward much further.
Gone are the days of pixellation that made the 32bit age ugly. The graphics might get better but not noticably. Despite a HUGE difference in power, the PS2 games look not much different from DC ones.
There won't be another generation of consoles for atleast 6 years now and I can't imagine any radical improvements either.
Personally, I think that the next generation of consoles will ignor the need for a TV.
This has started already. The PSOne has a screen of it's own and handhelds have nearly reached the 3D 32-64bit stage.
Another way that this could happen is that games will be played using holograms (an idea that I've mentioned hundreds of times but has been ignored every single damn time!) where the console shows the game's characters as holograms on your very own floor.
Having a micro machines racing round your living room or have 2 characters beating ech other up on your own settee.
Borrower sized people for you to take pot shots at with a light gun or have earoplane dogfights around the light bulb.
I know that there are flaws like you'd have to have your entire living room in the computer's memory to it knew that if a character ran into your sofa it would have to hit it instead of going through it but it's the next step forward.
Either way, with the likes of me and Grix producing games in 5 or 6 years, you can certainly garauntee a bright future :-)
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You could do AI on the PS2 more or less as well as you could on the PS3.
The next generation won't have very big improvements.
The next generation won't have very big improvements.
Immense power does not only have to creat good graphics, you know. These days on the PS2, developers are looking to produce better artificial intelligence. Now that would be a good game!
So the last batch of Next Generation consoles have revealed themselves and shown us al sorts of great thing s that weren't possible on older machines.
More characters can be shown on screen. We have internet deathmatches, a complete demise of slowdown and a new age a reliability (apart from the Xbox :-D)
What I'd like to know is how things will advance from here.
More powerful machines might be able to create better graphics and put in more realism but apart from trivial details like that, the industry can't go forward much further.
Gone are the days of pixellation that made the 32bit age ugly. The graphics might get better but not noticably. Despite a HUGE difference in power, the PS2 games look not much different from DC ones.
There won't be another generation of consoles for atleast 6 years now and I can't imagine any radical improvements either.
Personally, I think that the next generation of consoles will ignor the need for a TV.
This has started already. The PSOne has a screen of it's own and handhelds have nearly reached the 3D 32-64bit stage.
Another way that this could happen is that games will be played using holograms (an idea that I've mentioned hundreds of times but has been ignored every single damn time!) where the console shows the game's characters as holograms on your very own floor.
Having a micro machines racing round your living room or have 2 characters beating ech other up on your own settee.
Borrower sized people for you to take pot shots at with a light gun or have earoplane dogfights around the light bulb.
I know that there are flaws like you'd have to have your entire living room in the computer's memory to it knew that if a character ran into your sofa it would have to hit it instead of going through it but it's the next step forward.
Either way, with the likes of me and Grix producing games in 5 or 6 years, you can certainly garauntee a bright future :-)
More characters can be shown on screen. We have internet deathmatches, a complete demise of slowdown and a new age a reliability (apart from the Xbox :-D)
What I'd like to know is how things will advance from here.
More powerful machines might be able to create better graphics and put in more realism but apart from trivial details like that, the industry can't go forward much further.
Gone are the days of pixellation that made the 32bit age ugly. The graphics might get better but not noticably. Despite a HUGE difference in power, the PS2 games look not much different from DC ones.
There won't be another generation of consoles for atleast 6 years now and I can't imagine any radical improvements either.
Personally, I think that the next generation of consoles will ignor the need for a TV.
This has started already. The PSOne has a screen of it's own and handhelds have nearly reached the 3D 32-64bit stage.
Another way that this could happen is that games will be played using holograms (an idea that I've mentioned hundreds of times but has been ignored every single damn time!) where the console shows the game's characters as holograms on your very own floor.
Having a micro machines racing round your living room or have 2 characters beating ech other up on your own settee.
Borrower sized people for you to take pot shots at with a light gun or have earoplane dogfights around the light bulb.
I know that there are flaws like you'd have to have your entire living room in the computer's memory to it knew that if a character ran into your sofa it would have to hit it instead of going through it but it's the next step forward.
Either way, with the likes of me and Grix producing games in 5 or 6 years, you can certainly garauntee a bright future :-)
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