So what do we know about the next generation of consoles?

psycho_snake

I went to WAGs boutique and all I got was a sniff
I have not been following any of the rumours or talk about the nest generation and I know its still early to discuss it, but I thought it would be nice if we made a thread where we can put all of the info together and discuss it. Post anything you can find about format, possible game releases, specs, unveilings, anything of the sort would be useful.

The only info I have is the vague description of what someone said the features of the Revolution would be, which was taken from Gamespot, but I took it from the other thread:

A GAF poster republished information he claimed originated from the "first person to give decent DS specs." Though the original source admits his information has only "a 65 percent chance of being accurate," he makes some claims that, if true, would be pretty innovative. One, he confirms a rumor that was widely circulated last year--that the Revolution's controllers will incorporate gyration technology. It will have dual processors, four controller ports, built-in broadband, and an Xbox-esque hard drive that can store downloaded and saved content. (Can you say, "Son of 64DD?") While the Revolution will be backward-compatible with GameCube games, it will not have Game Boy Advance or DS connectivity. Instead, it will link up to the vaunted Game Boy Evolution, the near-mythical successor to the GBA. Games in development include--shocker--a Mario game, a Zelda game, and a Super Smash Brothers game. But when the poster's source asked his inside source at Nintendo what "revolutionary" functionality the console would have, the mole balked. He would only say, "If you think too hard you'll never guess what it is. It's nothing 'new,' technically speaking. It's just something that hasn't really been applied to video games yet." Sounds pretty good--for a thirdhand account on a forum of word-of-mouth information that has, by the author's own admission, a 35-percent chance of being wrong.
 
Without contributing information directly, I'll just mention a caveat: The line between what we know and what has been speculated is a particularly fuzzy one lately..

Technically the only things we know is what's been announced by Sony/MS/Nintendo, which is to say, not very much.
 
gofreak said:
Without contributing information directly, I'll just mention a caveat: The line between what we know and what has been speculated is a particularly fuzzy one lately..

Technically the only things we know is what's been announced by Sony/MS/Nintendo, which is to say, not very much.


what we DO know about the next gen consoles is this:

There is going to be a new Microsoft console
There is going to be a new Sony console
There is going to be a new Nintendo console

The Sony console will use the Blu-Ray Disc technology
The Microsoft console may or may not include Backwards Compatability and/or a Harddrive
 
Well, we know that in some way , shape or form it they will all have some sort of DVD tech ( HD-DVD/BlueRay/DVD ), some sort of Broadband internet solution, at least 4 controller ports, at least 480P on ALL games with at least PLII audio support, but I'm assuming 5.1 on all consoles...other than that...who know...

DCX
 
DCX said:
Well, we know that in some way , shape or form it they will all have some sort of DVD tech ( HD-DVD/BlueRay/DVD ), some sort of Broadband internet solution, at least 4 controller ports, at least 480P on ALL games with at least PLII audio support, but I'm assuming 5.1 on all consoles...other than that...who know...

DCX


I'm not so optimistic that all of those points will be met (the controller ports and DVD tech ones are up to Sony's and Nintendo's stupidity). Universal PLII would be very nice...wouldn't affect me at all but hell
 
psycho_snake said:
Please, someone at Sony see these words.

As for Sony using Blu ray, is that confirmend and do we know anything about the other two?

It's confirmed.

We don't know about Xenon. HD-DVD is speculated.

We don't know about Revolution.

How about CPUs? We know all 3 are using or are partnered with IBM to create their CPUs. We don't really know anything about Xenon's setup, although a multi (3) core setup is speculated. We know PS3's CPU will of the Cell architecture, and much speculation has surrounded its coniguration (but all we really know is that it'll be one Cell config or another). We don't know anything more about Nintendo's CPU plans and there hasn't been much speculation on that front AFAIK.
 
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