Completely BonkersI wonder if Wii U will stick with "multipurpose" console and keep CD/DVD features, or if they will junk that (we all have DVD/bluray players already so...) and have a smaller box and distribute games on SD card ROMs. Or some other proprietary format to kill pirating. Flash is so cheap now, you can manufacture and distribute games more cheaply using SD cards than DVDs. And the smaller boxes of the games and of the console all helps reduce shipping volumes, costs, and environmental footprint.

I would quite like the concept of a "console in your pocket or bag" the size of an ipod case or similar (those white transparent plastic boxes iPods come in)

MikeMurphyHd4800 gpus are very strong. Quite exciting news! I think we forget just how old the latest generation of consoles have become.

pantherx12I dunno what they cost where you are, but 32gb sd cards ( closest size to blu ray capacity) cost a lot lot more than a single blu ray disc.

About 20x more or so.

We've got a long way to go.

Unless you don't mind the games being $100-$120 .

a_umpif it were to be an HD 4800 series, it'd be ridiculously powerful. The 360 uses the Xenos, which is like a fusion of X1950/HD2000 series, and look at the visual's we can get. That's roughly a 6 year old chip/architecture, i'd almost say HD 4800 series would be overpowering. I can see a low-end HD 5k/6k gpu being used thou, as even those have 320+ Shaders compared to the current 48 in the 360.

Divide OverflowI don't see PC games being driven by the lowest common denominator console (Wii). Wii games are simply not PC games. As a PC gamer, I'm far more interested to see what the next gen PS and X-box consoles specs will be like. We're limited to far too many ports from that console class.

farquaidI dont know why you would need the size on the memory stick to be comparable to the size of the BD disc. The point he was trying to make was we already have bluerayplayers and dvd players so we dont need that function in the console.
Most games probably would fit on an 8GB memory stick and those can be had for 9euros or so(probably $9 in the US). But thats price for end consumer, the companies making the games wont even pay the third of that and thats a pretty cheap pricetag to negate pirating.

btarunr

largon^
Laughing at disabled people now, are you?
Tsk tsk tsk.

a111087has anyone else noticed one legged guy in the center of that picture? :roll:

happitaWhile the putting of games on a flash stick/memory card is a worthwhile idea, there's a unique setback to it. If this were to happen, new game prices would vary greatly depending on the size. It would inevitably be divided into 8gb/16gb/32gb chunks. A new game requiring a LOT of space (think Unchartered 2) will end up costing a hell of a lot, maybe $80+. Whereas a different game like a racing game or something that isn't that space dependant that ends up on an 8gb flash will cost like $40+. New games that will come out will cost anywhere between $40 - $80. It is just to big of a gap there, which is why I do not see it working unfortunately. But fighting piracy is a good reason to implement this idea, I just don't think its enough of a reason to shell out the expenses required for this :(

farquaidSo what you are saying is, they arent producing NEW games for xbox? Xbox uses dvd discs right? No 32GBs on those.

Bjorn_Of_Icelandbut can it run...