- Mar 14, 2012
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Some thoughts while I was reading all this...
I don't know about Xbox, but Sony has put in a crazy amount of effort to have a huge digital selection of games on PSN. The way the Vita is set up, they're practically begging you to buy all digital. I do not expect the physical console to have backward compatibility with physical discs, but I will be shocked if they don't emulate for the digital library they have.
As for TPA on next gen, I gotta believe that whatever they're working on for PC release would tie in nicely with the new consoles. They said that once PC happens, odds are all development will shift to that from the 360. Tuning might still be done on 360, but everything else would be PC. They mentioned that a TPA 2, much like Zen did, is very much a possibility. That would allow them to change the things that they can't with the current build. Hopefully they'd follow Zen's model of 'if you already bought it, it's still yours'. They told me that Xbox and PS3 just aren't set up for how DLC is delivered and maintained now, like the mobiles are, but next gen obviously would be. That'll make they're lives much easier.
Talking sales of Xbox and RROD being replaced for free, I'll share this little gem...
I'm in GameStop and some guy comes rushing in with his kids in tow, bee lining it for the counter. He asks if they have any 360s in stock cause theirs just RROD. The employee said they did, but also told the guy he could just send his in to Microsoft and 2 weeks later he'd have it back. The guy thought about that for about 3 seconds before saying, "yeah I can't wait that long and the kids wanna play their games now. I'll buy this one now and send in the old one to get fixed and then save it as a back up for this one." I asked the employee once it was my turn if he saw that a lot. He told me that was quite typical, and also where they get most of their used consoles from, the newly refurbished machine.
Finally, what's really driving this next gen. It isn't the games. Microsoft is all about creating this machine that happens to play games. Newest rumor over on Kotaku is that the Durango has a new Kinect that will sell with every console and HAS to be connected at all times for the console to function. Also that all games will download onto the 500gb hard drive, none will actually play from the disc. You'll be able to play while it downloads though, so at least there won't be that frustration. And then there's the little rumor that you'll have to have an active online connection to play or do most anything. Internet goes out for the night, service is interupted, yeah you get to stare at a hunk of plastic.
I guess we'll find out what Sony really has up their sleeve on the 20th, but I think the vast majority of the public is really preparing themselves to wince in pain over some of the 'improvements to our life' these new consoles are gonna deliver.
I don't know about Xbox, but Sony has put in a crazy amount of effort to have a huge digital selection of games on PSN. The way the Vita is set up, they're practically begging you to buy all digital. I do not expect the physical console to have backward compatibility with physical discs, but I will be shocked if they don't emulate for the digital library they have.
As for TPA on next gen, I gotta believe that whatever they're working on for PC release would tie in nicely with the new consoles. They said that once PC happens, odds are all development will shift to that from the 360. Tuning might still be done on 360, but everything else would be PC. They mentioned that a TPA 2, much like Zen did, is very much a possibility. That would allow them to change the things that they can't with the current build. Hopefully they'd follow Zen's model of 'if you already bought it, it's still yours'. They told me that Xbox and PS3 just aren't set up for how DLC is delivered and maintained now, like the mobiles are, but next gen obviously would be. That'll make they're lives much easier.
Talking sales of Xbox and RROD being replaced for free, I'll share this little gem...
I'm in GameStop and some guy comes rushing in with his kids in tow, bee lining it for the counter. He asks if they have any 360s in stock cause theirs just RROD. The employee said they did, but also told the guy he could just send his in to Microsoft and 2 weeks later he'd have it back. The guy thought about that for about 3 seconds before saying, "yeah I can't wait that long and the kids wanna play their games now. I'll buy this one now and send in the old one to get fixed and then save it as a back up for this one." I asked the employee once it was my turn if he saw that a lot. He told me that was quite typical, and also where they get most of their used consoles from, the newly refurbished machine.
Finally, what's really driving this next gen. It isn't the games. Microsoft is all about creating this machine that happens to play games. Newest rumor over on Kotaku is that the Durango has a new Kinect that will sell with every console and HAS to be connected at all times for the console to function. Also that all games will download onto the 500gb hard drive, none will actually play from the disc. You'll be able to play while it downloads though, so at least there won't be that frustration. And then there's the little rumor that you'll have to have an active online connection to play or do most anything. Internet goes out for the night, service is interupted, yeah you get to stare at a hunk of plastic.
I guess we'll find out what Sony really has up their sleeve on the 20th, but I think the vast majority of the public is really preparing themselves to wince in pain over some of the 'improvements to our life' these new consoles are gonna deliver.
