Caesar III
Oh Noes
Im Neogaf wird grad fleißig darüber diskutiert, wie denn die neue Generation von Konsolen aussehen wird und was die Verbesserungen sein werden. Dabei sind mir einige Beiträge aufgefallen, die zum diskutieren anregen. Dabei geht es hauptsächlich darum, ob der Massenmarkt eine weitere Konsolengeneration kaufen würde, wenn es wieder nur ein grafischer Fortschritt ist. Dabei wird aufgeführt, dass man langsam das audiovisuelle Plateau erreicht. Ich zitiere einfach mal und markiere die (in meinen Augen) interessantesten Passagen:
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Ranger X schrieb:Nah, there are reasons why i've personally never said that before and that when people were saying this before they were wrong. Now it's different. You have signs of this everywhere if you open your eyes. The plateau is coming and we already have signs of it like:
-People not moving on from CD quality -- because it's good enough.
-BRD not killing the BRDs because the image quality they can have is good enough.
-Slow adoption of HD sets.
-Hollywood falling because special effects alone are selling less and less movies.
-The Wii selling crazy when there's some enormously better graphics on PS3 and 360.
People don't buy things because it's cool and new. They do but at first it's because they have a need. Now, the more image fidelity and sound fidelity increase, the less this need to replace their stuff will be felt, cheap or not.
Nintendo is obviously avant-gardistes right now with the Wii but it's exactly what they see coming. They anticipate that soon, just better graphics and sound will not matter anymore because most people simply won't care. Next-gen you will basically make the graphics you want. It's totally going to be a budget thing and that's all. It might be the last gen as we know it right now. Even many people wouldn't even move from PS3/360 visuals.
We definetely facing a plateau soon and big corporation will have to look elsewhere to make money. 1080p might be the last mainstream resolution. BRDs is probably the last physical medium. Next-gen could probalbly last for a FUCKING LONG time. Movies already can do whatever the fuck they want visually, they already hit the plateau and Hollywood suffers precisely because of that. Videogames are there soon.
george_us schrieb:So I hope at least one company cares about that potential and it seems judging by one piece of anecdotal evidence, at least Sony will do it if MS won't.BobsRevenge schrieb:The more power you have in a console, the more you can do with it, the better the games have the potential to be.
And if none do I've still got my handy PC. Normally I'd agree with you but this generation has seems to be the exception rather than the rule. For all of the horsepower the 360/PS3 are packing, I'd swear that overall game design has taken a step backwards. Nearly every sequel I've played this generation has been worse than their predecessors and it just seems like developers are running out of ideas and/or don't have the knowledge to implement them correctly. I've still been enjoying this generation but it's been a train wreck compared to previous ones.
Truthfully, graphics are getting to a point where it's coming down to overall raw talent than power, at least for me. I can't count how many times I've been wowed by a game in screens only to see that it moves like a last generation console game. Yeah textures, geometry, etc. are still important to me but I'd rather take a game with amazing animation and special effects like blur etc. any day. I still put Lost Planet and Dead Rising as some of the best looking games this generation has to offer because of those things. LittleBigPlanet and the Motorstorm games as well.
For the first time, I'm honestly not looking for a quantum leap in horsepower for the next gen consoles. There's so much squandered potential from this generation's consoles that the next ones should refine everything to a shine.
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