Emerging markets like Brazil and India have huge potential for MS, but they universally do not have the infrastructure for always online, unlike the marjority of us now. They cannot afford to ignore these markets this gen.
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I've no real interest in the PS4 or Xbox, but I'm sure one of them will end up replacing the Wii that's in my Son's room at some point. He'll be nine this summer and if this next generation lasts as long as the current one, he'll be 15/16 when the PS4 is looking to be succeeded. And that scares me.Comment
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I'll give them around one year before I decide what I'm doing. I won't be buying anything sooner than that.
Practically all of my favourite games of all time are already on XBLA (tarted up) or VC... I'll be looking purely at exclusives next gen.Comment
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I'll decide when the new consoles arrive and I can base my decision on reality rather than hopes, fears and speculation. But I'll almost certainly buy a Wii U.Comment
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Tbf I probably should have said in the Winter thread that I'd mostly been plugging short and bit titles that I never played before and putting aside for now ones that will take time or I want to properly dig into.
For me, I held off the PS1 and it was great. I plunged on PS2 and didn't regret it. I waited on PS3 and it's been a brill run. With no major shock redirection PS4 just seems and easy buy. Owning one will likely negate most reasons to have the next-Xbox with the exception of Kinect (which improved camera or not is of zero interest) and XB exclusives which are currently in a very eroded state.
It's pretty much on MS's head to prove their relevance to me when they do their announcement and show Kinect hasn't led them down a dead end path. Hopefully they'll have plenty new to show and will also bring back some of the assets they've let go to waste.Comment
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What ones on VC exactly dataDave? (Not a sarky quesiton, I'd sincerely like to know in case I've missed stuff. My VC faves are Adventures of Lolo and Solomon's Key.)Originally posted by dataDave View PostComment
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This generation will be the last that I buy three consoles for. Will probably end up with a WiiU and one of the others. But I will be a late adopter, and will spend the first few years of the next gen cycle picking up cheap PS3 games. I spend so long on my commute that I will always need a handheld fix.Comment
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Are you talking about WiiWare or the Virtual Console? If it's the latter then I shouldn't really have to list them. xDOriginally posted by Golgo View PostComment
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VC, as stated. Wasn't asking you to list. Was just asking in case I might've missed a treat.Last edited by Golgo; 17-03-2013, 07:34.Comment
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I'll no doubt go next-gen at some point, but I doubt at launch (unless Ridge Racer 8 makes an apperance!)
This current gen has been a good indication of how the next-gen will be. No longer are we talking about who much BETTER everything will be, but at what cost.
I am not a fan of going digital distribution only as this is just another word for price-fixing. However I think the overall cost per-game, should you want to get the best out of it will cost you about ?100 per game in the next-gen. They will be selling you a shell of a game on a disc, with massive bolt-ons via digital dist.
Consider the current trend. For example, you have to PAY TO PLAY online on the 360, you then have the main game followed by some sort of season pass or Premium pack, costing around 4000 points (which is real money is another ?34).
I'd be very disappointed in Microsoft if the GOLD account thing carries over to the next-gen. I've hated the way they have intergrated that into just about everything on the box, apart from the iPlayer. Its positioning as a home entertainment hub has been a complete turkey if you don't also pay ?35 subs on-top. Jesus, even the YouTube player doesn't work without it! Do you need a sub on Windows 8 to run the YouTube app? No! Why should you need one on the Xbox? Absurd.
I think a lot of us will be locked out of the next-gen by the mere cost of each game and the mechanism it which to play them. However as the industry has learned, making SE/LE of games by slapping a poster, **** figure or CD inside a massive box and then charging ?15-20 on top to which many will buy, means I am pissing in the wind.
I remember UK SNES games reaching ?69.99 in their time, which was where I switched off and didn't return to gaming for a long time. I was younger then, I am in my forties now, so there may not be a next time in the next-gen!Comment
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I'm really excited by what the next gen tech can bring us, all the streaming stuff looks dead cool on PS4 and I actually look forward to instantly delivered digital titles for games, I would genuinely prefer a digital version of a game over a physical copy on certain occasions, especially as it opens up other "seamless" options that just aren't possible with a disc.
That Unreal 4 demo the other day had me salivating as to how we could expect our games to look in 2 or 3 years time, it is genuinely exciting.
What doesn't excite me right now is that the games that have been shown so far don't show us anything new or even any glimmer of different kinds of experiences over what we have now.
At least moving into the next gen , the big guys are all going to be dipping their toes in the water with new IPs as they get ready to queue them up for another 5 years of sequels, so we will see new and hopefully more risky stuff.
And I know it's very controversial but the built in camera/motion tracking on Ps4 and presumably the new Xbox at least offers that small glimmer of hope that we might see different kinds of experiences beyond the same old same old FPS and Dragon Slashing title, because there are loads of those I haven't played this gen.Comment
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