I'm not convinced they will seeing as consoles were sent out to dev's a few weeks ago!

In reply to a post by time2die:

So you did Don't think we have heard the last of all this palaver to be honest,if i may make a prediction........Sony will cancel the Neo this year and change the specifications.

That's what I thought from what Andrew House said and it makes sense if the scorpio is much more powerful.

I still think these new consoles are a mistake and I would rather they left it say another 2 years and release the next generation. They should concentrate of bringing loads of great games and give developers a chance to really optimise them and get the most out of the current gen.

I can understand needing more power for VR but it would be better if they could have made some sort of external box for extra power that goes along with the headsets (if that's possible)

In reply to a post by jorkila:

I'm not convinced they will seeing as consoles were sent out to dev's a few weeks ago!

Nor me. I suppose they could still add more RAM to match the claimed 12GB, but not much else.

external upgrades is the way to go but for whatever reason the console makers wont go this route. I assume because it is less profitable for them, even tho its more consumer friendly.

They just need some kind of port that is akin to a pci-e slot on a pc, where a device can be plugged in should future games need extra power.

What is looking likely at this time is that sony and microsoft will be juggling the lead in terms of horsepower every other year with frequent hardware releases. If the consumer is clever, they will reject this and the market will fail, but I am not convinced that would happen as even on here people have said they will lap it up and open their wallets for every console.

Your point regarding games i agree completely. First party games for both console vendors have been significantly reduced, especially with microsoft closing down game studios at an alarming rate. Whilst third party vendors seem to now be over concentrating on known good IP's such as COD and sports franchises at the expense of other games. It seems to now be considered acceptable for just a few games to be released every year by these studios.

Studios with lesser budgets seem to be concentrating more now on mobile platforms and PC. I assume because those markets are larger and cheaper to release on, especially with the fact they are both dominated by digital sales. Consoles are sort of stuck in the past with physical media, but microsoft tried to move them forward and were struck down hard.

I've been reasonably happy with the amount of first party games, but then I don't buy that many games.

Well your not missing much,even Uncharted 4 this year for me was literally quite boring the first 4 hours,game of the year for me so far is Doom,but i don't think at present 2016 has been very good for gamers,we would have been playing No Mans Sky by now but we have to wait until August for that.

As usual as soon as winter months arrive we will be greeted with a Avalanche of games and possibly some updated consoles in the form of the Xbox One Slim and Playstation Neo which i still think won't ship as they should have at least shared some information,promoted the product at E3 and showed us the console.

And least we forget playstation VR......I forget about that 10 seconds after they revealed it

Edited by time2die (Sun 26-Jun-16 13:07:24)

In reply to a post by time2die:

Uncharted 4 this year for me was literally quite boring the first 4 hours

Same here, I played it for one night and haven't been back since
Uncharted 3 was much better

In reply to a post by Lt_Swan:

In reply to a post by time2die:

Uncharted 4 this year for me was literally quite boring the first 4 hours

Same here, I played it for one night and haven't been back since
Uncharted 3 was much better

I thought it was amazing! But I deleted it half way through so somebody else could play it.....ahem.

And least we forget playstation VR......I forget about that 10 seconds after they revealed it crazy

I tell you what mate. You should check out the Playstation Access channel on YouTube. They've got a fair few hands on videos with PSVR now. I reckon you'd enjoy some of them, I really do.

I can see why it was confirmed by naughty dog to be the last one in the series .