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Post by James McGeachie »

jenkins wrote:X-Box 360, PS3...or am I assuming things I shouldn't?

Again?

(Based on the knowledge that GameCube, PS2, and Dreamcast were 128-bit)
You're a bit on the wrong side. By a bit, I mean you're completely wrong and don't have a clue.

But I guess everyone makes mistakes sometimes! I'd explain how things work but I'm really tired and this feels like a good excuse to be lazy..and to be honest, I've sort of forgot....fucking memory.


Anyway, about the idea of games exceeding 1TB though, the reason I'd personally be surprised is because I have a feeling that the next gen is probably going to be the penultimate gen, at least as far as graphical improvements go. Honestly, if the step up from next gen to the following gen is as big as the current step we're making, then it seems like they'll probably have the power for photorealism, or they'll be able to get to a level that's so close to being photorealistic that they wouldn't be able to justify making another system just to make the small final leap. Where storage is concerned, what I was thinking was that it's extremely unlikely any games in the coming gen will ever reach 100Gb in size, so then it'd be unrealistic for the following gen to need anywhere near 1TB. I suppose it's true though that if they had tons of uncompressed high definition textures and video they could end up using up a ton however.

It's likely though I could potentially be wrong about this and the console industry still has several more generations of power updates to go through, but all I can say is that personally, right now, I don't think there'll be a Playstation 5... at least, definitely not in a form anything like any current systems.

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Whatever happened to Virtual Reality? Back in the 90s it was thought to be the next big leap in all forms of entertainment, but towards the end of the decade every single company seemed to give up on the idea and it's been pretty much regulated to the realm of sci-fi impracticalness alongside the flying car? What happened? Did the virtual boy alone scare everyone off the concept?

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Sony actually has its hands in the development of certain mind-controlled technologies with immediate medical applications, such as a mind-controlled wheelchair and a hypothetical way of allowing blind people to see. And then there's <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns? ... 0">this</a>.

So, considering that, combined with Nintendo's strong innovations in how players interact with games, I would say we're easily closer to VR than we've ever been--and closing in all the time.

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A 1TB game would take like 10 years to make.

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Frieza2000 wrote:A 1TB game would take like 10 years to make.
Duke Nukem Forever is not 1TB. ~_~

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wooo-hooo

when i feel nothing at all

wooo-hooo

and the things that i made up

wooo-hooo

well i lie and i'm easy

all of the time but i'm never sure why i need you

pleased ta meet ya


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The T wrote:
Frieza2000 wrote:A 1TB game would take like 10 years to make.
Duke Nukem Forever is not 1TB. ~_~
lol

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Post by Light Speed »

I wonder if that Pachinko that posted on the second thread was the same one from Sonic Cult.

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It wasn't. See, that'd be Pachuka. Besides, he's still rotting in jail.

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Zeta wrote:...it's been pretty much regulated to the realm of sci-fi impracticalness alongside the flying car
Believe me, they're still working on that even today. I though I just saw something on it the other day.

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Post by One Classy Bloke »

Found a trailer for Duke Nukem Forever, damn it looked so badass. It was very close to the style of DN3D. Plus strippers, man. With boobies.

And OCB's entry into regular GHZ life was complete.

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VR? This is really too good to be true.

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Ritz wrote:It wasn't. See, that'd be Pachuka. Besides, he's still rotting in jail.
Ah, I see. I never went to his site so I couldn't quite remember his name.

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I played Pachinko for three hours straight yesterday. I have no regrets.

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Anyone else notice that the links don't work anymore? It says 404 Board does not exist.

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They've been deleted, how depressing.

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Maybe Rich said too much!

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Rich had a lot of blood in him. That'll teach him to use his real name online.

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