Iwata not convinced that PS4 and next Xbox will offer a true graphical leap

[The Sith]

http://www.computerandvideogames.com...raphical-leap/

Next generation consoles in production at Sony and Microsoft may not provide a significant generational leap that consumers are accustomed to, the president of Nintendo has said.

In what signals a return to the games industry's habitual public criticisms of new consoles from rival executives, Satoru Iwata has detailed his doubts over the PlayStation 4 and so-called Xbox 720.

"If they decide to increase the spec numbers, will the consumers be able to realise the difference enough so that they can understand it's much superior to today's machine," Iwata said in an interview with The Telegraph.

Iwata's claims have been published on the same day as similarly critical remarks made by Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida, who said the Wii U was "in a generation of its own".

And while the Nintendo president has doubts over the graphical advancements of the next generation machines, he appeared to hedge his bets by saying that developers would struggle if PS4 and Xbox 720 were significantly more powerful than their predecessors.

"If they beef up the processing power, that simply means much more work for software developers to take advantage of those spec numbers. So I have to ask the question if that type of differentiation really makes sense.

He added: "I think further arguments must wait until probably next year, when they have finalised and disclosed whatever they are thinking about for the next generation of consoles."

[MATRIX 2]

Says the president of nintendo, hmm. No bias there.

[Ghost-Rhayne]

Guess he missed the epic and square tech demos.

[acryllicaltair]

one word. NONSENSE

[Blacksite]

Guess he missed the epic and square tech demos.

Yeah, but as impressive as they were, that's all they are - tech demos.

Like Iwata says, it's best to wait for the final specs on these next-gen consoles before making any further arguments. That isn't to say that I agree with him on the Wii U being in a generation of its own but we don't know anything about Microsoft and Sony's next-gen consoles.

[Ghost-Rhayne]

Yeah, but as impressive as they were, that's all they are - tech demos.

Like Iwata says, it's best to wait for the final specs on these next-gen consoles before making any further arguments. That isn't to say that I agree with him on the Wii U being in a generation of its own but we don't know anything about Microsoft and Sony's next-gen consoles.

Fair enough, but I think it's safe enough to say that there will be a graphical leap. Whichever company decides to release a console that isn't graphically more powerful than current gen is committing market share suicide and I'm pretty sure both Sony and MS are aware of this.

[MjW]

tbh neither am I.


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[MacP]

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[DarkVincent07]

I dont think the WiiU should be anything to go off.

Look at some of the 360 launch titles like Tony Hawk and Gun, which were pretty much ports of the PS2 versions... And even Perfect Dark.. Compare that to Halo 4 and the difference is massive.

We probably won't seethe graphical leap straight away, but like any console it will show


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[Fon]

Fair enough, but I think it's safe enough to say that there will be a graphical leap. Whichever company decides to release a console that isn't graphically more powerful than current gen is committing market share suicide and I'm pretty sure both Sony and MS are aware of this.

Sony is in no position to lose it's core audience. It doesn't have the magnitude of support from the casuals so they need to make their next gen hardware powerful enough to be appealing to their main crowd. Otherwise it will be a huge market share suicide for them.

Even if they sell their next console at a loss, with clever PS+ support and adequate amount of content through PSN, they shouldn't worry too much about it.