I don't know if you remember this, but when the 360 launched, a comparable graphics card for a PC was an ATI X1900, which was a $600 graphics card.
So I'm not too worried about next gen consoles being able to run BF3 in 1080P at 60 FPS since they are still a couple years off. I would assume a $600 graphics card in late 2013 would be able to do that.
1080P will probably happen, but all games running 60 FPS? Not a chance. Devs will always want to do more and more, and many of them will decided that it's worth dropping the framerate to 30 FPS in favor of being able to have more enemies on screen, better graphics, larger environments, better physics (which is something I would bet we will see massive improvements upon next gen).
The point is, next gen consoles will be very powerful, but developers will still have boundar...
@Shadow Flare
I don't consider Kinect and similar gimmicks to be gaming.
You didn't read this very carefully did you?
"It will reportedly offer a "pared down" system to be released as cheaply as possible, and positioned more along the lines of a set-top box..."
A "pared down" system. A separate cheaper version to be a set-top box. In other words, there will be a gaming one which will be more expensive and be able to do everything and one that will be cheap and be able to Netflix and non-gaming rel...
Ah yes. A nice close competition. This should be fun!
Nothing but flame bait. Bungie and Epic both being in the top 5 worst developer is honestly hilarious.
He didn't even do his research as other people said, and then he tried to cover it up by deleting Halo Wars from his article.
I too have been a fan of Halo for a long time. Since 2003 actually. I'm just about as hardcore of a Halo fan as they come.
Do you remember how ridiculously good Halo 2 looked in it's teaser trailer? How about Halo 3? How about Reach in it's world premier trailer? As you may remember, they were all on the games' engines, but none of them looked anywhere near as good as their trailers.
Halo 2's teaser
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I have no idea where people get this idea that Halo 4 would be made for the next gen Xbox. They very clearly announced it for the Xbox 360 when it was first announced. How hard is that to understand?
I do not dislike the any of the Playstation consoles, I just can't stand the fanboys. And I personally like Xbox better, but I don't go on every Playstation related article just to tear it down.
@stvn_k26
After looking at your post, I don't know whether I should laugh or cry. I honestly feel bad for you.
Playstation fanboys are interesting creatures. Any time anything other than a Sony product is praised for any reason they feel the need to tear it down. I'd rather talk to a PC elitist fanboy all day than a Playstation fanboy.
I would also like to point out that I started out console gaming on the PS1, then got a PS2, and now I do Xbox 360 and PC gaming. After playing Halo in 2003 on my neighbors Xbox, I decided to change brands for the following console generation.
"most important, least successful.
you can't have both! what a stupid site"
Ever heard of Call of Duty? Yeah, it's the best selling franchise of all time. And we all know that Call of Duty 4 was the only good one since 2007.
"1 it brought gaming to the masses" Consoles in general brought gaming to the masses, not just the PS2.
"2 it had the best controller ever made" Actually, that contr...
2 GB of RAM is already nothing, in fact, it has been nothing for a while.
RAM is not expensive.
I can't believe that people are honestly saying that 2GB of RAM is enough. Battlefield 3 with textures on ultra uses over 4GB of RAM by itself. Do you people really want RAM to be a bottleneck at the time of the system's launch?
4GB bare minimum, 8 would be best. RAM is cheap, there is no excuse for having only 2GB of RAM.
Halo Wars was a completely different genre from a company that was shut down not long ago.
ODST's storyline and Halo Reach as a whole show that Bungie's heart is not in Halo anymore.
343's head guy is Frank O'Connor, who is very passionate about creating a Halo experience that lives up to the name Halo. He was heavily involved with the first 2 Halo games and contributed to Halo 3 as well.
As a hardcore Halo fan since 2003, I ...
I honestly think it's hilarious that anybody would think that it would be powered by an ARM CPU. That's the most ludicrous thing I've heard in a while.
And why would it be any smaller than a 360? I can guarantee that it's CPU(s) will be generating a lot of heat, and having a small case will not help that issue. We don't need another round of RROD issues. There's no need for a home console to be extremely compact anyway.
Also, why would...
"This is Microsoft so I wouldn't be surprised if the 720 is powered by a fetus."
I don't think you realize that at the time of the 360's launch, a triple core processor with hyperthreading was pretty much insane. The Xbox Original was also the most powerful console on the market in it's time. It actually cost MS about $700 or $800 to make each 360 when they first came out, and they were selling them for $400.
I want to play the campaign, and maybe the multiplayer for about 2 weeks. After that, everyone will have figured out where the best camping spots are, and will have found every exploit/glitch to ruin the game for everyone else.
Good thing Skyrim is coming out this week, else I might have caved in and bought MW3.
I've got an Asus G73JH, it gets the job done pretty well. It's really nice for going to a friends house to play games on a whim, but I honestly wish I had just built a desktop.
Button glitches are one of very few things from Halo 2 I do not miss.
@Gam3rSinceBiRTH
Armor abilities completely changed Halo also.
Sprint and evade ruined close quarters combat. Anyone with sprint of evade on has a huge advantage over anyone without it. It makes it way too easy to be out of range with sword or shotgun and instantly get within instant kill range. It also makes it way too easy to run from a fight.
Jetpack is just str...
Honestly people, chill out! Next gen Xbox will not be coming out in 2012! Halo 4 is coming out next fall, and it has already been announced for the Xbox 360.
The only possible way it will happen is if they were to make Halo 4 multiplatform between their new system and the 360.