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I'm sure you've all noticed.
The Playstation and Saturn revolutionised gaming by standardising 3D graphics.
Nintendo took this further by standardising 3D gameplay.
The Playstation was largely more powerful than the Saturn, the N64 was largely more powerful than the Playstation but after that it slowed down a fair bit...
Although the Dreamcast was obviously more powerful than the Playstation/N64, it didn't quite blow them away the way new consoles normally do.
When the PS2 came out, the difference shrank further, with Dreamcast games actually looking BETTER than many PS2 games.
And now with the Xbox and Gamecube, although each has different specs, if you look at the actual games, you can barely notice a significant difference.
The Xbox, Gamecube and PS2 have surpased all the old limitations of the last generation's hardware and the only limitations seen so far are so superficial (e.g. the graphics don't look QUITE photorealistic), they're not really worth worrying about or buying a new machine for.
That's why you could be thinking that there wouldn't be a proper next generation for quite some time.
Shigsy seemed to think so to, stating that the Gamecube would last 8 years.
So this is the end of the line for devellopment?
The next generation will completely fail to impress?
Well maybe not...
Not with new evidence...
I read the New Scientist the other day.
Apparently, by combining the strengths of various semi conductors, IBM have managed to make a 110 Ghz CPU.
That's more or less 100 times as powerful as modern processors!
What is the PS2 a hundred times as powerful as?
Those old 25 Mhz 386's that couldn't manage 3D graphics properly?
Implement this new technology into graphics/sound chips, it seems that there's about to be a boom in power.
The PC will be the first to taste this power but it will be expensive and few games will support the new expensive-not-widely-owned hardware.
The Playstation 3 will be the first to use it properly, combining state of the art power with a standard userbase, allowing devellopers to take advantage of it.
And I expect that Nintendo and Microsoft will follow with their own power boxes.
I know it's nothing to get overly excited about yet, especially as we haven't got into this generation with the GC and Xbox yet to be released over here, but it is nice to know that there IS a future...
The Playstation and Saturn revolutionised gaming by standardising 3D graphics.
Nintendo took this further by standardising 3D gameplay.
The Playstation was largely more powerful than the Saturn, the N64 was largely more powerful than the Playstation but after that it slowed down a fair bit...
Although the Dreamcast was obviously more powerful than the Playstation/N64, it didn't quite blow them away the way new consoles normally do.
When the PS2 came out, the difference shrank further, with Dreamcast games actually looking BETTER than many PS2 games.
And now with the Xbox and Gamecube, although each has different specs, if you look at the actual games, you can barely notice a significant difference.
The Xbox, Gamecube and PS2 have surpased all the old limitations of the last generation's hardware and the only limitations seen so far are so superficial (e.g. the graphics don't look QUITE photorealistic), they're not really worth worrying about or buying a new machine for.
That's why you could be thinking that there wouldn't be a proper next generation for quite some time.
Shigsy seemed to think so to, stating that the Gamecube would last 8 years.
So this is the end of the line for devellopment?
The next generation will completely fail to impress?
Well maybe not...
Not with new evidence...
I read the New Scientist the other day.
Apparently, by combining the strengths of various semi conductors, IBM have managed to make a 110 Ghz CPU.
That's more or less 100 times as powerful as modern processors!
What is the PS2 a hundred times as powerful as?
Those old 25 Mhz 386's that couldn't manage 3D graphics properly?
Implement this new technology into graphics/sound chips, it seems that there's about to be a boom in power.
The PC will be the first to taste this power but it will be expensive and few games will support the new expensive-not-widely-owned hardware.
The Playstation 3 will be the first to use it properly, combining state of the art power with a standard userbase, allowing devellopers to take advantage of it.
And I expect that Nintendo and Microsoft will follow with their own power boxes.
I know it's nothing to get overly excited about yet, especially as we haven't got into this generation with the GC and Xbox yet to be released over here, but it is nice to know that there IS a future...
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You only have to check out the likes of Moore's law to see that things are going to get a lot better. The way technology advances is quite scary at the moment amd will no doubt get even faster. I think in about 10 years the differences betweem consoles then and now will be unbelievable but that is what most would expect. In computing you tend to find things improve and get better all the time and it dosn't look like changing for a long time.
I had no dounts about there 'not' being a next-generation, and maybe even several more to come afterwards!
All you have to do is look at the rate that technology is moving at, and you made some good points about that in your post. A good post too, and I also think we'll soon be seeing more develoments on the handheld side of things.
All you have to do is look at the rate that technology is moving at, and you made some good points about that in your post. A good post too, and I also think we'll soon be seeing more develoments on the handheld side of things.
I'm sure you've all noticed.
The Playstation and Saturn revolutionised gaming by standardising 3D graphics.
Nintendo took this further by standardising 3D gameplay.
The Playstation was largely more powerful than the Saturn, the N64 was largely more powerful than the Playstation but after that it slowed down a fair bit...
Although the Dreamcast was obviously more powerful than the Playstation/N64, it didn't quite blow them away the way new consoles normally do.
When the PS2 came out, the difference shrank further, with Dreamcast games actually looking BETTER than many PS2 games.
And now with the Xbox and Gamecube, although each has different specs, if you look at the actual games, you can barely notice a significant difference.
The Xbox, Gamecube and PS2 have surpased all the old limitations of the last generation's hardware and the only limitations seen so far are so superficial (e.g. the graphics don't look QUITE photorealistic), they're not really worth worrying about or buying a new machine for.
That's why you could be thinking that there wouldn't be a proper next generation for quite some time.
Shigsy seemed to think so to, stating that the Gamecube would last 8 years.
So this is the end of the line for devellopment?
The next generation will completely fail to impress?
Well maybe not...
Not with new evidence...
I read the New Scientist the other day.
Apparently, by combining the strengths of various semi conductors, IBM have managed to make a 110 Ghz CPU.
That's more or less 100 times as powerful as modern processors!
What is the PS2 a hundred times as powerful as?
Those old 25 Mhz 386's that couldn't manage 3D graphics properly?
Implement this new technology into graphics/sound chips, it seems that there's about to be a boom in power.
The PC will be the first to taste this power but it will be expensive and few games will support the new expensive-not-widely-owned hardware.
The Playstation 3 will be the first to use it properly, combining state of the art power with a standard userbase, allowing devellopers to take advantage of it.
And I expect that Nintendo and Microsoft will follow with their own power boxes.
I know it's nothing to get overly excited about yet, especially as we haven't got into this generation with the GC and Xbox yet to be released over here, but it is nice to know that there IS a future...
The Playstation and Saturn revolutionised gaming by standardising 3D graphics.
Nintendo took this further by standardising 3D gameplay.
The Playstation was largely more powerful than the Saturn, the N64 was largely more powerful than the Playstation but after that it slowed down a fair bit...
Although the Dreamcast was obviously more powerful than the Playstation/N64, it didn't quite blow them away the way new consoles normally do.
When the PS2 came out, the difference shrank further, with Dreamcast games actually looking BETTER than many PS2 games.
And now with the Xbox and Gamecube, although each has different specs, if you look at the actual games, you can barely notice a significant difference.
The Xbox, Gamecube and PS2 have surpased all the old limitations of the last generation's hardware and the only limitations seen so far are so superficial (e.g. the graphics don't look QUITE photorealistic), they're not really worth worrying about or buying a new machine for.
That's why you could be thinking that there wouldn't be a proper next generation for quite some time.
Shigsy seemed to think so to, stating that the Gamecube would last 8 years.
So this is the end of the line for devellopment?
The next generation will completely fail to impress?
Well maybe not...
Not with new evidence...
I read the New Scientist the other day.
Apparently, by combining the strengths of various semi conductors, IBM have managed to make a 110 Ghz CPU.
That's more or less 100 times as powerful as modern processors!
What is the PS2 a hundred times as powerful as?
Those old 25 Mhz 386's that couldn't manage 3D graphics properly?
Implement this new technology into graphics/sound chips, it seems that there's about to be a boom in power.
The PC will be the first to taste this power but it will be expensive and few games will support the new expensive-not-widely-owned hardware.
The Playstation 3 will be the first to use it properly, combining state of the art power with a standard userbase, allowing devellopers to take advantage of it.
And I expect that Nintendo and Microsoft will follow with their own power boxes.
I know it's nothing to get overly excited about yet, especially as we haven't got into this generation with the GC and Xbox yet to be released over here, but it is nice to know that there IS a future...
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