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In May of 2011 at E3, Sony announces a $50 price drop for the PS3 slim and announces Uncharted 3 and Resistance 3.
Interesting, considering next year's E3 is currently scheduled to run from June 7th to June 9th.You forgot to dial one number higher.
You'd poop your pants if they announced that E3 was moved to May...
In Kytim89 Wii successor topic he has admited that he is from the future. So Kytim please let us know what happens in 2011.
Rules:It can't be anything we know currently. Like something like Zelda Wii coming out then.
All topics are permitted except those not allowed on the forum.
2010 to 2019 will be the last decade of optical media. What is going to happen is that the next two console generations will cosist of desensitizing people about the disc free down loading of games. Such services as virtual console, wiiware, PSN and xbox live are the future, but it is still too soon for disc free consoles. The PSP Go was a good example of this situation.How do you know this?
I imagine the Wii 3(?), Playstation 5 and the Xbox 1440(?) will not use optical media at all and will be pure down load only. Hundreds of Terabytes of storage will be incredibly cheap by then and I expect these consoles to emerge by 2021.
As for copying memory cards, Perm, I misunderstood what you were saying. I have multiple copies of Twilight Princess for back up. What I was saying was that if the wii 2 does have Gamecube on virtual console, there will be no gamecube ports on the console and the games will be saved internally like the other systems.
Are you from the future?
I was always suggesting a wireless GC port adapter for those that need it.
It could have 4 controller ports and 2 memory card slots and be sold separately.
When the crew was talking about how abismal the N64 virtual console was, Johnny mnetioned the word "Rare" and I think that was a subtle hint that the N64 service will not be complete without Rare titles because those games defined the system besides those of Nintendo. But that ship has sailde over the horizon and will never return.
Rare really was a huge part of the Nintendo 64. I was reminded of this the other day when I arranged all of my N64 games in alphabetical order and noticed that nine out of the first ten were developled by Rare. Banjo-Kazooie, Banjo-Tooie, Blast Corps, Conker's Bad Fur Day, Diddy Kong Racing, Donkey Kong 64, Goldeneye 007, Jet Force Gemini, Killer Instinct Gold...
Boo built-in Virtual WaveBird receivers...
A.) WaveBirds are already pretty pricey to find in good condition.
B.) What about my bongos and dance mats?
C.) And my GBA Link cables?
Correct. The GBA had built in 3D effects, but they couldn't be implemented in any games due to lack of 3D screens at the time.
If they do a handheld Virtual Console, I think the chances of them adding 3D are slim. They would likely do the same thing they did with the Wii's VC and have the games kept the same (except for rare occasions like removing the Kawasaki ads in Wave Race 64 or letting you sent pictures from Pokemon Snap to your Wii Message Board). So I think a handheld version would be the same, the games would basically have to be kept the same as they originally were.
the need to preserve memory card data would still be there, but the idea would be to move it. Sort of a legacy idea. You can keep your old files, but by the time the system after the next system is out they should just drop the port all together, then again by then they should also drop optical media altogether.
for backwards compatability to gamecube, i would leave only one port for the gcn memory cards, allow them to be copied onto sd cards if need be, and only be compatible with wavebirds, no need for receiver though. Virtual receiver.
Microsoft just recently said something about how the original xbox will not be emulated on the 360.
I think you are not remembering it correctly. Hundreds of Xbox games are emulated on the Xbox 360 (full list: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/backwardcompatibilitygameslist.htm). Due to Microsoft switching graphic chip providers, the Xbox 360 does is not backwards compatible through hardware and requires you to use software emulation to play the games. Microsoft stopped adding more games in November 2007 though, which means some games can not be played on a Xbox 360 (like one of my favorite last gen games TimeSplitters 2). I think you are recalling a exec saying they would not be doing any more emulation.
The PS2 is not that hard to emulate from what i've heard, Sony just doesn't want to do it for various reasons (like when Jack Tretton said they took the Emotion Engine chip out of the PS3 because they wanted to get people to buy PS3 software rather than PS2 software).
Assuming the Wii 2 will be compatible with Wii games, emulating the GameCube would be more expensive than including full hardware compatibility. The Wii hardware is literally a more powerful version of the GameCube hardware, meaning it would take very little work to get the hardware for Wii compatibility to also work for GameCube games. Emulating the GameCube would be a lot more work; they'd have to make the emulator and do extensive testing and tweaking, and even then it wouldn't be fully compatible with all games.
