The real kicker will be when the AMD Fusion tablets arrive. Then you'll have a serious GPU to use.
Peter Moore was most likely pushed out of MS. At that executive level people don't always get fired like most of us. Peter Moore was most directly responsible for RRoD. His situation was more like Ken Kutaragi's. After a major screw-up they were pushed aside. I doubt Kinect had anything to do with it. It was more like he cost the company close to two billion dollars. And who knows how many sales because of the unreliability issue.
And EA needs new management. After t...
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These same old troll arguments about exclusives are boring. Do your own thinking for a minute. How come all of those PS exclusives haven't closed the gap on sales of consoles. It's been six years, the exclusives should have made the PS3 take a lead over the 360 by now. The headstart excuse is gone.
Sony released 4 major exclusives last year. Socom, LBP 2, Killzone 3 and InFamous 2. The 360 outsold the PS3 last year globally. So what do exclusiv...
MS overpaid 8 billion for Skype and they still have over 40 billion (and growing fast) that they need to invest. 10 billion wouldn't be a big deal for them.
It would be stupid though. Activision's title are cooling and this could turn out to be a Rare like acquisition. CoD is starting to wane and they seem to be reaching to make it stick. Plus MS would be looking at cutting half of it's sales. Though they could be looking to share with their partner and continue ...
Next generation consoles won't be nearly as expensive to make as people think. The most expensive parts are usually the CPU and GPU. They are expensive because of R & D but also because of the die size. In the past the dies were large. That has changed during the current generation. By the time the next Xbox and PS4 release die sizes will be 28 or 22nm. Those sizes mean a lot more chips per wafer which is the main cost reduction in consoles. Several times the number per wafer you got ...
Retailers don't have to be cut out. They can have kiosk in their stores that download games to a thumbdrive.
Considering console sales are 6 times PC sales PC sales had nowhere to go but up. But there is a shortage of big console titles right now since developers are waiting for the next generation. PC had Diablo. GTA or Halo or another Uncharted comes out and those numbers reverse again.
Sony clearly said they were concerned about internet connections. Not space or anything else. They know that all of the other things can be gotten around easily. Once you have a 10mbs connection in a home, physical is more no longer a necessity for everyone.
People need to understand that it is far cheaper for a company to provide a digital service than it is a physical service. Sony would no longer have to pay distributor, a retail mark-up, for a disc, for the disc license,...
There might actually be a disc-less version as rumored. It would be perfect for casual gamers that would mainly use it for cable. Plus London has over 7 million residents. If you got a good portion of them using a 720 or just the set-top box it would be a lot of money.
Who are you people and why are you having an intelligent conversation on N4G?
I think Pachter is off a lot of the time but not on this. Bobshi your point about the economy is a really good reason to do this. The next generation of consoles won't be as expensive to produce as most seem to think and get money from the cable company and the consumer would be a smart way for MS to sell a ton of consoles.
Verizon sells Direct TV in my area since they couldn...
Sony fans can't seem to separate the success that PS is seeing now and the complete opposite thing happening to the rest of the company. Kaz and Stringer seem to have the company headed in the right direction, but the problem now is that there is too much dead weight.
I do think they are making a mistake going with high margin top of the line TVs and not going with more mid-range sets(that belongs to Samsung now, they are the Sony of today in that market). Sony could own...
Sony bought that factory back to make camera parts. Not Cell processors.
No one has seen a Steamroller core in action. It is far too early to assume they are less than current PC specs. Steamroller cores are built for HSA. That will make them push far pass the computing power of current CPUs. If they went with two APUs, this would kill any gaming PC out there. AMD is doing something totally different with CPU architecture. Something like what Larrabee and the Cell were supposed to be. Except they use two specialized parts instead of trying to make one type of part...
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AMD CPUs are less powerful. But I believe these will be modified and will use full HSA features. These are Steamroller cores. Two generations past Bulldozers. That will push them past Intel chips. If the CPU and GPU are reading and writing to the same memory they will give this APU a huge advantage over anything Intel has including Ivy Bridge.
But if these are the specs or even close and the 720 spec are close too, the Xbox will be a more powerful mac...
You are thinking retail cost. Sony won't pay near that. Plus these will most likely be modified versions that owned by Sony. That will make them even cheaper. The other thing people are forgetting with APUs is the fact that the CPU and GPU are on the same die. In the PS3 those parts were over $100 each. Since they are on the same die the cost will be half.
I agree that it will cost $400 at launch. But all of the next gen consoles will be making a profit day one on the ha...
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Even Sony almost dropped Blu-ray for the next PS. They also just bought a streaming company that could be updated for HD movie tech. SO I'm not sure how you could still believe Blu-0ray is anything but a niche product. Plus the sales still say niche. Notice that they are still only 25% of the revenue and given the average $10 premium means that they sell a lot fewer disc.
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I know digital is better for the companies. But they need to make people want to switch. The best way to do that is by passing some of the savings they get onto the consumer. And even if they went to a all-digital system, they could sell special versions that came with a hard copy and a nice metal case. The next generation is time to start the process of making the switch to all digital.
Sony was definitely not going for a different audience with Blu-ray. Every console maker was trying to appeal to a larger audience. You have to diversify to survive.
"It's the way of the world, and it's always goin' be."
Cellphone companies have been doing it for years. If $199 comes with a two year contract it's no different. But they would have to have a premium service that adds up to more than $60 a year.
But these consoles might be a lot cheaper to make than people think. None of the new console will likely have a separate CPU and GPU. They will most likely be the same die. That cuts the cost of a new console by a third on day one since those are the two most expensive parts. Plus t...
The idea that Kinect 2 would be strictly for casual is silly. It will supposedly be able to see facial expressions and capture lip movements. And have the ability to track fingers. That would open Kinect to a more hardcore audience as well as new casual and even production features. Many seem incapable of looking past the present and seeing potential.
It seems that MS has enough sense to make the next Xbox a more full featured piece of hardware that the whole family can use ...