Ok there is a lot of speculation about what is up the sleeves of Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. I myself have been doing some digging, some interrogation, and even held a candle under some peoples toes to come up with a solid prediction for what is ahead in the next 5 years.
Let's start with our old friend's - Nintendo.
After the fall of the Gamecube and the rise of the DS Nintendo realised that it was once again time to innovate in gaming technology, and came out with a way to revolutionise the gaming experience. Through the years Nintendo has innovated with their DS with teh DSi and XL, but no HD or i versions of the Wii.
With this I must admit the Nintendo Wii's motion control revolution has taken off, but now with Microsoft's innovations alongside Sony's copycat motion controls things have got...well, a little stagnant.
Let's look what Nintendo could possibly have up their sleeve. Well they've annouced their next gen handhold, so that's out. The vitality sensor seemed to gather some attention, then went under the radar. So all that's left is to bring out more Wii games. Which after 5 years is past it's prime. No-one's buying it anymore.
So first things first, a next gen console announcement (yes announcement) has to be the next step at this year's E3. Now my predictions will be a small trailer, some press pictures, and maybe even a tech demo at most. What Nintendo wont show you will be it's next gen controller. Our predictions for that are very exciting.
What would happen if your mind was the controller? Now this technology isn't as far fetched as it seems, I have personally used this technology a good 3 or 4 years ago, and while there were a lot of kinks to work out, if you coupled it with eye motion tracking, and the vitality sensor you'd get one hell of a gaming experience.
SPEC PREDICTIONS:
- Full HD and 3D TV compatible
- Same power as the PS3
- Medium-Large SSD for online downloads and gaming.
- Flash memory and SD slot. Full Wifi and Ethernet comparability
- Backwards Compatible
- Headset controller
Release Prediction: 2013 - 2014
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Ok now Nintendo are out the way, let's move onto Microsoft's next gen.
As we all know out of the current gen systems, Microsoft's has been out longer than all the others, by a whole two years in some countries. All Microsoft have to show for themselves is a motion control upgrade from the Wii's, and that can surely only last them an extra two years at the most before sales once again flat-line. We can't blame them, they are a lot older than it's younger, more powerful rival. So it's going to have to be time to bring something out soon.
I don't think Microsoft will innovate too much further with it's Kinect - it may get better at recognition of human bodies of different skin tones, or even read sign language, but Microsoft aren't really big innovators, they usually wait around for Nintendo to take the risk, and then alter and possibly improve on the design, all in all through Microsoft's console plan is usually cowedly and "safe." It seems to me that Microsoft want to make their console as cheap as possible, so 3rd party licencing doesn't need to be paid, so I wouldn't expect mircosoft to allow you to play a blu-ray movie or play online games for free. What I can guarantee is that it'll be a beast of a console allowing games developers to go that one step beyond what they can do now.
My prediction is that we'll get some new Kinect games announced and a press conference revealing the next gen xbox this E3, if not it'll be 2012.
- Stark
Let's start with our old friend's - Nintendo.
After the fall of the Gamecube and the rise of the DS Nintendo realised that it was once again time to innovate in gaming technology, and came out with a way to revolutionise the gaming experience. Through the years Nintendo has innovated with their DS with teh DSi and XL, but no HD or i versions of the Wii.
With this I must admit the Nintendo Wii's motion control revolution has taken off, but now with Microsoft's innovations alongside Sony's copycat motion controls things have got...well, a little stagnant.
Let's look what Nintendo could possibly have up their sleeve. Well they've annouced their next gen handhold, so that's out. The vitality sensor seemed to gather some attention, then went under the radar. So all that's left is to bring out more Wii games. Which after 5 years is past it's prime. No-one's buying it anymore.
So first things first, a next gen console announcement (yes announcement) has to be the next step at this year's E3. Now my predictions will be a small trailer, some press pictures, and maybe even a tech demo at most. What Nintendo wont show you will be it's next gen controller. Our predictions for that are very exciting.
What would happen if your mind was the controller? Now this technology isn't as far fetched as it seems, I have personally used this technology a good 3 or 4 years ago, and while there were a lot of kinks to work out, if you coupled it with eye motion tracking, and the vitality sensor you'd get one hell of a gaming experience.
SPEC PREDICTIONS:
- Full HD and 3D TV compatible
- Same power as the PS3
- Medium-Large SSD for online downloads and gaming.
- Flash memory and SD slot. Full Wifi and Ethernet comparability
- Backwards Compatible
- Headset controller
Release Prediction: 2013 - 2014
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Ok now Nintendo are out the way, let's move onto Microsoft's next gen.
As we all know out of the current gen systems, Microsoft's has been out longer than all the others, by a whole two years in some countries. All Microsoft have to show for themselves is a motion control upgrade from the Wii's, and that can surely only last them an extra two years at the most before sales once again flat-line. We can't blame them, they are a lot older than it's younger, more powerful rival. So it's going to have to be time to bring something out soon.
I don't think Microsoft will innovate too much further with it's Kinect - it may get better at recognition of human bodies of different skin tones, or even read sign language, but Microsoft aren't really big innovators, they usually wait around for Nintendo to take the risk, and then alter and possibly improve on the design, all in all through Microsoft's console plan is usually cowedly and "safe." It seems to me that Microsoft want to make their console as cheap as possible, so 3rd party licencing doesn't need to be paid, so I wouldn't expect mircosoft to allow you to play a blu-ray movie or play online games for free. What I can guarantee is that it'll be a beast of a console allowing games developers to go that one step beyond what they can do now.
My prediction is that we'll get some new Kinect games announced and a press conference revealing the next gen xbox this E3, if not it'll be 2012.
SPEC PREDICTIONS:
- 3D Compatible
- 2GB GPU +
- 3 or 4 times the power of the current system.
- Minimum of 500GB HDD
- Full Wifi, and Ethernet comparability
- New Kinect packaged in
- NOT Blu-Ray compatible unless special blu-ray player bought
- Download x-box, x-box360 games compatible
- Innovated for comfort new controller, smaller.
Release Prediction: 2012 - 2013
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Last but certainly not least is Sony's next gen console.
Sony have finally reached it's prime age, and I see no reason why Sony should rush another console, especially when they're finally turning a profit on the damn thing. Not only that but it's clearly the best entertainment system on the market to date, allowing both gamers and movie goers a cross platform experience, and I'm only just starting to enjoy the flood of games coming out for the console. It's really a golden age for Sony, and what with their NGP handheld coming out, they can stay afloat just on the sales of that let alone the Playstation 3. It would be foolish not to be planning ahead, but it would be foolish to rush things too.
The best thing Sony could do is stop copying Nintendo, and innovate, even if it's as small as a redesign of the Playstation controller. Which in my opinion is better than motion control, all you need is a comfortable handset with buttons that you don't have to think about what to press next, you just know. Again see Nintendo's controllers, especially the Gamecubes.'
SPEC PREDICTIONS:
- 2GB GPU +
- 3 or 4 times the power of the current system.
- Minimum of 500GB HDD
- Full Wifi, and Ethernet comparability
- Optional Motion Controller bundled in
- Blu-Ray compatible
- PS3 compatible
- Playstation Network Upgrade: , download Playstation and PS2 games as well as PSP and NGP
- Unfortunately no hope for a better controller.
Release Prediction: 2013 - 2015
- Stark
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