There are tons more games out there than FPS'. Quit bitchin and look around for two seconds first and you'd know that much.
Just off the top of my head I can think of Skyrim, Sleeping Dogs, Uncharted, LA Noire, Grand Theft Auto, Saints Row, Infamous, God of War, XCOM, Dark Souls, Mass Effect, ICO, Tekken, and all the driving games, sports games, etc etc etc.
You must be trolling !
Most of them go in this category (GTA never did it for me for example not to mention it's originally from the 90s), ICO is an old game already and is wonderful but it just makes my point even more, Tekken is from the 90s originally etc. There are very few recent games that caught my attention. Driving games, sports games, always the same IMO, just like COD. It's nice to play a recent one, but I have never had chills out of them. Our point is that back in the days, every other month you'd have a breakthrough by a game that would almost get legendary (Chrono Trigger / Chrono Cross just got mentionned as well, THIS was an awesome game). I remember alternating between Tomb Raider, Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, Medievil, Resident Evil...
@blue_fang : yes I'm totally aware what is in the box of a console. Obviously these are PCs with customized chipsets and CPUs and integration, and they cannot be better than what is available at the time of their release. But that's what you said, they offer a single model with virtually no fragmentation, so that developers can have the comfort of working on a single set of specs, and be 100% sure when their game works that it will work in any case. That's why Android struggles offering the same quality of content than the Apple Store and are working on it (and ironically removing the liberties that were the flagship of android)
This generation will supposedly host 6-8 cores @2.9Ghz more or less, AMD for Playstation (a customized CPU based on a current model I don't remember), with 8 to 16Go ram, and a 1 or 2Go videocard. If I got it right, the PS4 is going the SSD route with relatively little space, while the 720 will have 620Go or a 1To harddisk
@Ermz : yes I totally agree with that, PCs will always go better... But then again, with investment. You'll never have the same quality investing the same money. You're comparing your current setup which is a killer beast circa 2010/11 IIRC to a PS3 created in 2006 and which costs at the time of your skyrim comparison half the price it cost at its release. Obviously you'll get further with a PC, I think no one is denying that. They could release an update of all console every year and the new PS3 could be 8 cores, 16go Ram and 2Go vram, but it would defeat the purpose, and developers would get headaches figuring out how to optimize the game on all versions. What they do is create bigger steps every 4/5 years where they can step up their game again. Calculate the money you have invested since 2006 in your computers (although in your case it's hard to tell since your computer is also your job tool) to the cost of a console, that's an important parameter in the comparison. Also, as you said, console is all about convenience. No maintenance, virtually so optimized it doesn't have problem, compact box, integrated wireless system for the controllers, OS that updates itself and rarely bugs, etc. I don't see why people compare so much PCs and consoles, it's just not the same philosophy.
For the record, the bethesda games are just horrid on console in any case ! I wouldn't even bother
@drew_drummer : I don't really get yet the Steambox philosophy, from what I got, valve is creating its own steambox too, and says it would appreciate more companies would, so that users would have different qualities and power. it would run windows 8, so in the end, what is the difference with a simple PC which would run Steam as its unique app ? The price ? I'm considering building a PC just for gaming as well, so I would be interested in the steambox if it's good enough to run current games at decent high settings in a compact volume
. I'll stick with Sony though, their games are the ones that interest me the most, they have the best excusive games and devs and I would like to see what they can do with the PS4.
I have also read it will be 1080p with 60fps, I don't know if this is true or not, nor if all consoles will be the same. They are talking about a 4k resolution, at least hard-coded for the future, nothing sure though
