We are all interested in the future. Indeed, as the great Criswell so astutely observed, "We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives." And it wouldn't be much of a life if it wasn't spent playing the latest video games, no doubt powered by trillions of tetraflops and a giggle-inducing number of gigabytes. Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli has seen this future (it's where he bought his Crysis-capable computer), and has concluded that the next generation of consoles -- as in the Xbox 720 and the PlayStation 4 -- could arrive in 2011 or 2012.
Discussing "The Future of Gaming Graphics" at Leipzig's GC Developer Conference, Yerli estimated that Microsoft and Sony's next offerings would arrive "in three to four years' time, although there are good reasons why it should be 2010 already...but we'll see." Crytek, which most recently worked on Crysis Warhead, has also pinned 2012 as the debut year for its next in-house engine and follow-up to last year's impressive CryEngine2.
Regardless of timing, we're pleased to see that not everybody thinks the current cavalcade of consoles is our last.
They shouldn't - he's the CEO of Wild Tangent, a company that began by loading crappy games with adware and spyware and unleashing them on the public as Winamp plugins. I'm sad they are still in business, and I hope they face swift death as a game proprietor up against the Steam network.
But it would be foolish to think that Sony won't be ready this time - and suffer another 1+ year delay.
This time PS4 will launch with X720 IF not SOONER!
"A PS4 will be launched by Sony but not until at least 2010 claims the Vice President of Technology for Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, Paul Holman."
"Reacting to Yuta Sakurai's opinion that the recent Sony management shuffle would mean Sony's eventual exit from the gaming hardware market, SCEE VP of Technology Paul Holman claims that Sony is still intent on releasing a PS4... in 2010 at the earliest. And 2010 isn't even ten years after 2006, if you've noticed."
I think you'll actually see Microsoft roll out the new Xbox in 2010, just because they're still bound and determined to beat Sony out the door and if they wait until 2011, they risk losing that chance.
That and apparently all the graphics card vendors have visited them with their proposed products, and doing that 3.5 years early seems a little bit jumping the gun.
Beating Sony to the punch helped them a lot with the 360, and I also think they'll do the same thing this time around. If they release the next Xbox soon enough and keep the price reasonable, people will compare something brand new to the PS3, which seems like it's still barely out the gate. This would force Sony to rush their hardware again, and I'm not sure the PlayStation brand will withstand another flubbed launch.
Am I the only one that think 2012 is still kinda early? Or that every new console generation should last a bit longer than it's predecessor? I mean this gen now we have things that range from near realistic graphics to hardware updates to constantly improve our systems. I mean they could announce the new systems around that time, but shouldn't release them for a year or two.
On a similar topic...WHY Joystiq, WHY did you switch to the Engadget style comment system? Black on mint is fugly for one thing, and for another, "Returning" isn't the default, and there doesn't seem to be any way (short of a custom grease monkey fix of some sort, but needless to say, I have no idea how to do that) to make it so. Gahhhh
I use firefox 3. It's gray, but when you click the box to start typing, it changes to mint. It is rather ugly. The posts not showing up is still present.
Posts not showing up has been a problem for a few months now I guess.
Yeah, it's only mint after you click the box. It's gray otherwise. The web designer who thought black on mint was a good color scheme, should be sacked.
@Fernando - I don't think any amount of complaining from us is going to make them roll back the comments system, especially not after they rolled it out on every blog in the network. The new system is less functional, and harder on the eyes. It stinks of "new for the sake of new" and there doesn't seem to be any reason for why they did it.
Oh well, I guess I'll learn to click "returning" first after the 10th failed attempt to enter my email addy in the "Name" box, and my password in the "E-mail" box while on the New Readers tab.
Yes, I realize that noone at Joystiq probably had any say in the matter, but there is a 100% chance that it won't be switched back if noone complains. With the complaining, that chance goes down to 99.9%
See? Progress was made. Wingets were had.
Also, I'd like to award the Banana "Bending Rodriguez" Boat memorial burn of the month award to Ludwig. You've earned it.
I think an estimate drew up that there were 50 million Crysis-capable computers on the planet, and you can build one that will max it out with good fps for fairly cheap these days.
It just annoys me to think that people will still be making the "you need a supercomputer from space to run it!" jokes for years. Doom 3 was the same at launch, and yet you could run it on a few pieces of tin held together with chewing gum nowadays.
Interesting, about in line with what Epic's Capps predicted.
And its not like these guys are just followers to whatever happens-they are the ones who will help drive the release dates of the next-gen consoles-they have to have some idea what is coming, and when.
i know everyone says this and it will seem super obvious when the new consoles launch, but i cant imagine what they are going to improve on (other than power/graphics of course)
i might actually get a console this next generation. i've been pretty content with my PC for the past couple years though.
Hmmm, probably. I think we will probably see a staggered generation, with Microsoft lengthening it a little bit considering how well they are doing, and with Nintendo jumping the gun to preempt the competition and try to leg up from the Wii's hardware, which is already starting to look old.
Wii2 = holidays 2010 or early 2011, power equal to the 360 XBOX720 = holidays 2011 PS4 = spring 2012 to holidays 2012
Of course it'll most likely arrive in 2012. Just looking at the past can tell you that. However, I seriously doubt any of the big 3 will put out a new console in only 3-4 years after they just launched. They're usually just breaking into full speed by that time. I do think we'll be seeing the Wii2, PS4, and the 720 by that time.
If anyone thinks I'm spending more money on another new system anytime soon, then they are completely out of their minds. Hell, Madden 09 sucked so bad I'm back to playing 08 on my PS2.
Msoft have already stated they plan to roll out the next xbox console approx 2010 they started developing the third box straight after 360. usually tho they 2010 but prob 2011. Sony originally stated the 4th PS will be out 10 years after the PS3(as like to believe and they market it as some awsome machine that wll last forever - wee bit opitmistic)
apart from the argument PS3 v 360 fan boys aside please, PS3 - its pretty usless Oh sorry bluray player and a few games like heavenly sword oh wait again CGI not real time i forgot the next gen console will have to be 4 time as powerfull they need to pump out power but limit cost (like a PC). Granted games can only be better with more finacial backing and hard working developers to make them. but on a multimedia side of thing theres needs to be more for our money something we can do much much more with (don't ask me or id want it to make coffe and scratch my b...
As for people commenting on crysis etc... needing a supercomputer? - NO 2 gig min (PC26400) and a Geforce 8800 (£100) is ample for max setting. Although 3 - 4 gig would be better and a decent CPU forget about water cooled crap u don't need it unless you got a P4 CPU that get hot when it sees you almost turn the PC on - bit like a 40 women on the change.
And as for PS3 vs 360, PS3 - cell great for calcs but not for gaming and lacks GPU memory and bandwidth
"Critics will point out the good and the good so leave them alone unless thier under the age of 17 which most tend to have sexual fantasies about their fanboyish nature" - Auoc
