499.99 Euroes = 650 US (roughly).. No one is going to be spending that kind of money on a ps3 this late in the game even if its bundled with a Vita...
In the mind of the consumer the PS3 is old and the Wii U is new .. Sony would have to push the off screen gameplay as a feature with that bundle and it doesnt make sense for them to do that for minimal return.. The vita can't sell on its own and you expect it to sell for more with a PS3 (That bundle appeals to new gamers wh...
Wonder how much R&D was tacked onto the sales price of the console to account for their "Loss" on hardware?
The biggest problem with the Vita + PS3 combo is the price and adoption rate... Ya there are 70 million PS3s out there .. but the Vita is selling horribly and doesnt look like it is going to be selling like gangbusters unless they drop the price...
Sony isnt going to drop the price because they will take an even bigger loss on the Vita .. and the timing of a price drop and the release of the PS4 (which may be sold at a loss) is a big no no for Sony due to their financial issu...
No one is debating whether they are going to release a more powerful system than what they have now (it's a given) .. What is up for debate is HOW much more powerful will their next system need to be for people to upgrade?
Most people don't realize that the majority of PS3 and XBOX games arent even 720p / 1080p natively... Most of them are up-scaled from 540p/640p... Halo 4 was the first Halo to run natively at 720p which would explain why it struggles to keep its fra...
I think we all need to simmer down on the 720 / PS4 specs until we know clearly what they will be.. We cant just assume the Wii U will have the same disparity to its counterparts as the Wii did because if you think about it .. If the Wii was HD in any way shape or form that gap wouldnt have been as big.. Only reason it was so dramatic was because it was 480p.
There are other factors at play in what Sony and MS can do in their new gaming consoles.. Sony wont be able to charge ...
The Wii U is the kind of thing you just gotta use .. as cliche as it sounds since Nintendo says the same thing .. You wont fully appreciate what it can do until you actually use it..
I love nintendo because it offers a different way to play vs the other consoles and PC (I own all systems and a good pc). I bought the Wii U because I knew it would offer something drastically different than what I already have..
One thing that really sold me on my purchase was h...
The physics not being included was known months ago... The didn't have enough time with the dev kits to optimize it for the physics...
In what resolution and how many frames? What graphic options?? My $1200 gaming rig can't do those games at 1080 with high graphics at a solid 60fps... I usually have to drop AA and OI and graphic quality to medium just to get around 60fps consistently. Chances are the ps4 or 720 won't do that either unless the system costs 500+ or they make compromises on all the graphics options.
People need to lower their expectations this gen.. Consoles need to keep form factor an...
I dont know why but I never got into the whole achievement thing ... So not having them doesnt bother me at all because I felt like it added little to no value... Headphone jack is actually pretty annoying ... wonder how third parties are going to work around this?
Once Nintendo patches the OS a little and refines some of what it already has I think the system will be great. It took MS and Sony a while for their system OS's to be top notch and glitch free so I dont expect...
I agree with the reviewer .. the demo of rayman was really good and the graphics were really crisp .. no jaggies and no grainyness to anything...
When I looked over at the ps3 and xbox demo stations playing their respective games I literally thought to myself "Man do graphics really look that grainy still?"
FYI article updated... and it will be able to play from the harddrive.. Reggie pretty much acknowledged this when talking about how limited the internal flash memory was.
Update
Link has been updated and the information was misinterpreted. Only the SD Card slot can't launch downloadable games. USB hard drives should be able to.
People have this illusion that games are going to be LEAPS and bounds better this gen. The jump from ps1 to ps2 to ps3 were huge leaps ... but you arent going to see that big of a leap this generation.
The claim that next gen consoles are going to be 1080p running 3D at 60fps with an upgraded multimedia operating system in the background is laughable... My PC right now cant do that unless I lower the graphics options and I have a pretty good gaming rig. The only way to achie...
.. From all reviews the Wii U renders a game in HD for the TV and another for the tablet at 480p ... Stuff that renders in the native resolution of the device looks alot better than HD TVs trying to to out put a 480p image.
480p on a TV that only can do 480p looks better than most HD Tvs doing 480p.
Sony is not going to be able to pitch the same console twice for the same price... The market isnt going to pay over 500$ for a gaming system anymore. They got away with it because of bluray and "cell"..
Sony as a company is still posting a significant loss, lets not forget the VITA by most analysts was considered a failure and its slow sales and price point is driving Sony down. This will have a huge affect on what they decide to put in the PS4. According to rumor ...
Another thing to take into consideration is that Sony cant afford for this system to flop ... They cant inflate the specs to be the "Best" and push the cost down to the consumers. To be honest no one is going to buy another system that costs 400-600$ anymore, people just cant afford that right now.
I think the VITA is a prime example of where the BEST and COST show you how much people are willing to pay (3ds as well)...
I think one fact people aren't really looking at is the tablet on the Wii U .. The cost of the tablet is pretty substantial to the cost of the entire system. Sony doesn't have to plan for that cost... they could invest that 100 to 150 dollars into the CPU / GPU or amount of ram in the system which will ultimately give it better performance than the Wii U.
a 60 fps HD Metroid prime or Mario galaxy ... even Red Steel 2 would turn a lot of heads...
If Nintendo wants to start the Wii U off with a bang they will need to find a way to set the EShop off with a bang. 3DS failed with not having it on launch... Wii U would need it on release and if they want to make it awesome offer some first party games with HD remakse available for download. Iwata said investors liked the additional revenue at small cost through the Eshop... Also the rumors of Retro working on a metroid / starfox fusion game was kinda cool .. but it was dispelled quickly .....
"and even though its slightly stronger than the ps3,360, since it came out so late (6 years, i mean really) in a year or 2 when the ps4 and 720 launch and run games with the new final fantasy engine, Unreal 4 engine and other next gen engines the wii-u will fall drastically short" - Lucretia
ROFL , you do realize that the Unreal 4 engine ran on a Geforce 680 video card (the card is longer and larger than the 360 and or ps3 form factor) and most likely a current ...
I believe Df confirmed it was at 720p like the other games. Also it has been confirmed to have better visuals on the wii u.