Pretty much GOTY graphics awards or just reviews, or graphical comparisons all unanimously agree that UC3 dominates anything on 360 graphically.

there is no room for debate here...

Gears 3 looking better than Uncharted 3? Trying too hard. Gears 3 looks great but not better than uncharted 3.

Look at the darn trailer, its in-engine just like Uncharted 3's cut scenes. Hence, the in-game graphics and cutscenes won't look any different unless you do a in-dept comparison where probably the lighting would look better etc.

what has anything you just said to do with this topic ?

That's just ignorance. UC3 kept the core mechanics, though they've been refined, and- at least in multiplayer- the ability to sprint and toss back thrown grenades is completely new and changes the experience considerably. And it plays NOTHING like Tomb Raider. There are conceptual similarities, and that's it.

And how the hell should you "expect the same game play in The Last of Us?" Sorry, but I doubt UC's gameplay will transfer over to a survival game well.

You expect a lot out of the Nextbox, most of which you probably won't get.

O.o the next xbox may rival current pc games but by the time it comes out, PC will be ahead thats just how the name of the game goes.

Saying Uncharted is a rip of tomb Raider is like saying Gears is a rip off RE4 which is a rip off of Windback, and so fworth and so on.
people comparing games is stupid simple said, diffrent strokes for diffrent fokes.

I never played Tomb Raider, but after Uncharted I went back to play those titles(Angel of Darknes..laughs.) but its all about exspanding your interest, and library. Please grow up, the less fanboys the better.

Naughty Dog split into two teams, one for UC, the other for The Last of Us, saying its going to be the same game play is close and simple minded..I will retract my paragraph if you can show me some gameplay, Epic did Gears, and helped alot on Bulletstorm and polished it as well, outside of character models those are two complete diffrent games. (and yes I know people can fly did Bulletstorm with ALOT of help from Epic Games, just putting that in there.)

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".