Stroopy121 Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 So the next gen consoles are starting to gather rumours....No second hand games.Emphasis to lean heavily towards kinect/gesture control (allegedly to include lip-reading?!)Estimated release dates from Fall 2013 to 2015..?Anyone excited about this? Or are you in the same boat as me, wanting gesture control to go fuck itself..?xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 I think gesture control is a fad that will likely fuck off soon enough, much like 3D movies. The technology isn't good enough yet. Half the time they don't work and you end up waving your arms around like Mr Tickle trying to get into the options menu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FOX Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 No second hand games?!?!?!?!?!?!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stroopy121 Posted January 27, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 No second hand games?!?!?!?!?!?!?That's what I thought. The rumour is they're gonna move towards a PC style system where a game as an activation code for your console or your live account, or something. Bullshit as fuck!xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaaakkkeee Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 Sounds shit to be fair but I'll end up getting one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 That's what I thought. The rumour is they're gonna move towards a PC style system where a game as an activation code for your console or your live account, or something. Bullshit as fuck!xxYou know what I hate? When you're playing a game and half the stuff in it is locked, and the only way to unlock it is to go to XBox Live and pay to download the extra content. Fuck you! I already paid £40 for the game! I shouldn't have to pay more to get the rest of the game! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaaakkkeee Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 So what, if you download the games, will they bother putting in a bluray/dvd player? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stroopy121 Posted January 27, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 So what, if you download the games, will they bother putting in a bluray/dvd player?Plan is to put a blu-ray in and still have physical discs too if you want them. All just rumours though. I think the "Official Announcements" are coming in summer.xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaaakkkeee Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 To be honest, what's the point? Really? Ps3 is fine. Does everything I'd ask of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keeno Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 Next gen starts this year. Nintendo have confirmed the Wii U will be released in Japan/US and Europe before the year is over. So I'd expect it to be out in Japan around September/October and here in December. Latest I heard was that the next xbox is 6x more powerful than the current one.... but only 20% more powerful than the wii u. How they reached those figures I know not but it would be interesting to see if it pans out like that. Nintendo have always had modestly spec'd machines so they get a profit on selling hardware from day 1 so either they are going to have a much pricier console than the wii was at launch (the tablet controller hints at that) or PS4 and xbox 720 are really going to have to bring something different to the table than just raw power. Microsoft and Sony always start their hardware as a loss leader and only make profit on revised consoles so to justify their typically higher prices they need to perform far beyond what the Wii U can offer or do something different. Microsoft have hinted at integrating kinect into at it but I can't remember Sony saying anything about move. At the moment it looks like the next batch of consoles are going to be way behind current high end PC performance.I've heard the second hand rumour but hopefully it's not true. They've already gone far enough with the whole passes for online multiplayer scheme and making people who rent or buy a game second hand buy a pass to access those features/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 To be honest, what's the point? Really? Ps3 is fine. Does everything I'd ask of it.That's probably what a few Mega Drive owners thought too.They're probably going to need to bring out a new Playstation sooner or later anyway, y'know, since it has no games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scootray Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 Surely they're not going to call it Xbox 720? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaaakkkeee Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 I just read what you were quoting, Stroopy. It honestly looks like they're going "right, we'll get a blu-ray player 'cause that's what ps3 has. and we'll do the no 2nd hand thing so we get more monies. Shit.. We need something new... umm... KINECT 2"Better graphics shmetter graphics. I don't really want to pay through the nose for something that looks slightly more real. If I wanted real I'd open the curtains and look outside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moose Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 They should call it Xbox 1BILLION.I'm getting too old for new generation consoles. 360 does me fine. Enough of this gesture control too. Just geez us a remote. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keeno Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 I just read what you were quoting, Stroopy.It honestly looks like they're going "right, we'll get a blu-ray player 'cause that's what ps3 has. and we'll do the no 2nd hand thing so we get more monies. Shit.. We need something new... umm... KINECT 2"Better graphics shmetter graphics. I don't really want to pay through the nose for something that looks slightly more real. If I wanted real I'd open the curtains and look outside.They need to use blu-rays because of the capacity of one. The current DVD's used by the xbox are 9.5GB or something like that and a blu-ray is up near 50gb for a dual layer disc. This generation it wasn't much of a problem because most of the space on a blu-ray if used for anything was just to leave audio uncompressed and for rendered cutscenes like those in Final Fantasy games. Next gen games will use more space and I'd imagine Microsoft would want to offer 5.1 and high quality audio on the disc as well. Lets not forget the Xbox was launched about a year before the PS3 and was over £100 cheaper when it launched so it may well have been a cost cutting measure as much as 'let's offer the best we can'.I'm not liking the 'integrated media center' direction that Microsoft are taking. They started it with the new dashboard update and building kinect into machines would be daft unless they offer a machine without it. I'm all about buttons and analogue sticks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scootray Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 As long as it plays decent games I don't give a fuck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 As a long as "decent game" doesn't mean "stand infront of the telly and ponce about like a fanny". Kinect is bent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaaakkkeee Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 It's okay for parties. But I mean, unless Bill Gates is having parties every single day then I have no idea what the fuck Microsoft think they're doing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 Surely they're not going to call it Xbox 720?That's what I thought. What's next-next gen? XBox 1440?Of course then by starting it with 7, they'll be three ahead of Playstation, which according to legend is where the 360 name came from in the first place. The idea was that if they brought out XBox 2 at the same time as PS3, people would think it was inferior because it's 1 less.They should make one that goes up to 11. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 Parties are for pints of wine. If you have to play a game at a party, it's 4 player Mario Kart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Android Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 Don't really understand why they bothered making nay consoles after the N64. All unnecessary imo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 Don't really understand why they bothered making nay consoles after the N64. All unnecessary imo.So the whole world could recover from that aborted inbred foetus of a controller. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Android Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 Best controller ever you pint drinking evra loving jerk! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keeno Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 The n64 controller wasn't that bad at all. This was much worse to hold and way uglier.This is what it was based on I would imagine although I never played on one..... I only had the original sega saturn controller which was just a curvier mega drive controller. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatboy Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 I'm sure soda's massive man hands make the n64 controller uncomfortable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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