the current systems are the trial and error phase. The next xbox and ps will utilize their respected motion controls more fluently.

I am actually thinking sony will take the move even further. Incorporating mini pseye's in their tv's would allow for the move to basically replace the traditional remote and be more direct in controlling onscreen selections.

That is something MS couldnt do considering they dont make tv's.

i love to just sit back and play without moving nothing but my thumbs...

the future should be about moving less no more...

like playing games with your mind.... so i wont have to move my fingers anymore ..

you are right about the classic controller for the wii. Realistically it wasnt meant for current games but as the name implies. "Classic" as in those on the VC.

I do like the simplistic yet semi versatile nature of the wii remote. Aside from the straight up point at the screen you can turn it in the hands and play somewhat traditional gameplay in newer titles.

If sony were to (gasp) abandon the existing controller for more move control then they would need to adopt a similar style in that you could hold the move differently to relate to the game at hand. I would doubt they'd give that up though.

That controller is as much a staple to the PS brand as Mario is to nintendo. It gets better but never really looses its original feel.

Yup, for good or for bad, Dual Shock is staying.

I love my PS3 controller but truth be told, it could use some general shape smoothing (not much, but get rid of angular edges and could be a little bigger), concave analog stick pads and concave L2/R2 buttons (I don't like the slim trigger design on 360 controller either, but at least those are concave, if they were double the wide it would feel great already).

Contractual agreements are not the same as “gentlemen” agreements. If you think that they work with their distributors a month before production then their entire business model is trash. They work with companies like nvidia constantly for building the graphics cards they need. They work with companies that build motherboards years in advance. This is what proper business planning does.

They are not buying components on a whim like a consumer. So again, considering the ram isn’t a singular module and is integrated into the motherboard I highly doubt they wouldn’t have a final schematic that they are supposed to be building around.

If they are delaying production another 3 years then it’s obvious again this is an after though project and is just trying to be responsive to their bad execution they had the last 14 years.

It also isn’t far fetched to use their failure to produce first party titles the last 7 years including the highly anticipated games I mentioned all being cancelled. That they would continue to you know… lie

Yeah with FSR 5 they should be able to offer a much cheaper version of Helix.

Series S is what has killed Xbox Series so... Will they dare?

The factors are largely external. Covid and Russia-Ukraine war causing inflation led to the first price increase in 2022.

Then we get Trump's tariffs increasing hardware prices, AI boom causing a RAM crisis, war on Iran causing a worldwide fuel crisis which impacts the cost of everything.

Gaming doesn't exist in a vacuum. The last few years have been a shitshow and lot of it was definitely avoidable.

LucasRuinedChildhood,

For sure. No disagreement on the external factors doing a lot of this. Where I have to gently push back however is on two fronts:

1. The pandemic definitely caused some issues: asynchronous development was a big issue and really complicated timelines and affected game quality. At the same time, when it comes to price hikes, it's really difficult to know what was genuine necessity and what was taking consumers for a ride. The pandemic brought about "stag-flation" which was increasing prices and stagnant wages, which was a problem caused by supply chain constraints. There was also "Greed-flation", where companies that were slightly affected or had no issues took advantage of the situation and squeezed everyone citing supply chain issues when there were none.

2. It's definitely true that the tariffs, AI boom, and RAM crisis were all things enabled by tech broligarchs throwing money at this caricature of a world leader, one of them being Satya Nadella. I don't think Sony and Nintendo have contributed much to this problem if at all, but Microsoft's Nadella I feel was instrumental in causing every one of those issues. Microsoft as a company contributed to both candidates (though they gave Harris 4x as much if I recall), but Nadella was all in on letting AI run wild. He paid for unregulated AI, and got a war that's not a war (even though Trump called it that at least five times on television) that screwed up helium access. So for me, I feel that one of the players in the gaming industry is a key architect of these issues, and for that reason I struggle a bit to think of it as "external".