Sony's Next Console in Development
"Development work is underway," company says.
The successor to the PlayStation 3 is currently in development, Sony confirmed during the company's investor meeting today.Executive vice president and chief financial officer Masaru Kato was asked to explain the rising research and development costs for the company's fiscal year. "In the game segment, we have the NGP to launch later this year. So we have development expenses to be incurred for this product," he explained.
"For the home console, the PS3 still has a product life, but this is a platform business, so for the future platform - when we will introduce the product I cannot discuss - but development work is underway, so the costs are incurred there."
Nintendo recently announced plans to reveal its new console at E3 next month, with a full product release in 2012. Meanwhile, Microsoft began hiring for its "next generation console" this past March.
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May or may not be real, obviously.
Originally posted by Peach
http://mynintendonews.com/2011/05/30/nintendo-wii-2-leaked-specifications-list-for-the-nintendo-wii-2-project-cafe/May or may not be real, obviously.
I don't understand all that gibberish about graphical specs, but a 2.5" HDD and Bluray sounds about right 👆
Actually, they're very impressive.
http://playstation.about.com/od/ps3/a/PS3SpecsDetails_3.htm
http://www.consoledatabase.com/consoleinfo/microsoftxbox360/
The leaked specs sheet for Project Cafe lists a ridiculous amount of RAM for a console. Compared to a computer, it seems unimpressive, but for a console that's a lot.
It's an extra 256 MB of RAM. Not that ridiculous.
What's the most important aspect of those graphical sheets is the power of the CPU and GPU. Unless one of us works at AMD, or IBM, we don't know what those are capable of.
As for the GPU RAM, well, 1 GB seems a bit overkill. Hell, even in todays PC games, you don't need 1 GB unless you want to do extreme resolution games.
Because of the RAM factor, it seems more fake to me.
EDIT: The more I think about it, the Cafe sheet is basically double what the other two systems have.
Originally posted by PeachI think that's what it is. Should we really go down the road of making a "for consoles" distinction though?
Actually, they're very impressive.http://playstation.about.com/od/ps3/a/PS3SpecsDetails_3.htm
http://www.consoledatabase.com/consoleinfo/microsoftxbox360/The leaked specs sheet for Project Cafe lists a ridiculous amount of RAM for a console. Compared to a computer, it seems unimpressive, but for a console that's a lot.
Originally posted by RE: Blaxican
I think that's what it is. Should we really go down the road of making a "for consoles" distinction though?
Well, consoles run differently from computers. I thought that the RAM listed was low, until I remembered that most of the memory on a computer is used for the operating system. The games themselves actually require far less, especially when they're optimized for that system.
Good lord, the controller is huge!
This shit looks incredible.
Half the time they were talking about it I kept going "...so is it just a controller or a new console?" because the images you could see in the background it just looked like a regular Wii.
That controller is massive, though. How much is that going to cost?