Next Next-Gen Consoles Thread

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Patter Song: Mar 26, 2010; Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.; Fun Shoe

They could announce a date for a Direct, or announce the NX's actual name, without actually unveiling it.

# ¿ Apr 26, 2016 18:49

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 03:09

Patter Song: Mar 26, 2010; Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.; Fun Shoe

It's more likely some Tuesday in the winter we'll wake up to a tweet from Nintendo saying "Tune in on Thursday at 5PM EDT for the unveiling of the NX" with no prior warning.

# ¿ May 17, 2016 00:18

Patter Song: Mar 26, 2010; Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.; Fun Shoe

um...what is even the concept of this one? "Our next console is partially transparent...and hollow because we jammed all the actual computing parts of our device into the non-transparent parts, thus making our console larger than it had to be?"

# ¿ Jun 3, 2016 02:23

Patter Song: Mar 26, 2010; Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.; Fun Shoe

Nierbo posted:

Wait, what happened to those steam boxes or nvidia boxes or whatever they were? They still coming out?

You can see why this was such a dumb idea just scrolling down the list here.

http://store.steampowered.com/sale/steam_machines

Are you looking for a $500 entry level machine? A $4000 fuckoff rig? All here on the list, next to each other, with very little to help inform the customer about why each one is different.

Also, the Steam machines here only take Steam games which use Steam OS, which is relatively few of them and defeats the entire purpose.

If you want a cheap-ish gaming PC in a console-like box that gives current-gen console-like power, the Alienware Alpha R2 is a somewhat better option because it actually runs Windows, but...

http://www.dell.com/us/p/alienware-alpha-r2-desktop/pd

(The R2 is the second one over)

It's $599 compared to the XBone and PS4 both being in the $300 range now. It's even more expensive if you pick one of the further over variants. It'd run almost all games on Steam acceptably well (though certainly not maxed out or above 1080p) and it's probably the most bang for your buck you're going to get for a prebuilt console-sized PC that plugs into your TV and gives you a console-like experience.

# ¿ Jun 20, 2016 21:09

Patter Song: Mar 26, 2010; Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.; Fun Shoe

Real hurthling! posted:

idk who would be disappointed besides dudes who can't live having the technically weaker system.

nobody was going to throw their pc in the trash cause neo came out

these tflops figures don't matter. if they mattered, ps4 being 2x xb1 would come out to more than a few frames of difference in performance and more than 900p vs 1080p. like xb1 could have been a contender even at its current spec if it had games people wanted, didn't have a 100 dollar kinect tax and disasterous pr at launch, and wasn't an assy hardware and ui experience. console war history is full of the weaker system winning.

if tflops mattered that much it would mean that ps4 neo being 2x ps4 would come out to more than just guaranteed 1080p and more stable fps.

when scorpio launches at only 133% of ps4 neo in tflops for like 150-200 dollars more it will be totally meaningless and another sales disaster.

PS4 is 1.5x XB1 (1.28tflops vs 1.84 tflops).

900p displays 1.44 million pixels. 1080p displays 2.07 million pixels, or...about 50% more.

These numbers match almost exactly.

# ¿ Sep 7, 2016 18:05

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 03:09

Patter Song: Mar 26, 2010; Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.; Fun Shoe

Stux posted:

no one cares

theres more at play than just tflops though

Of course, I'm just saying the 2/3rds power difference is in line with the 900p vs 1080p difference because 900p is 2/3rds of 1080p.

# ¿ Sep 7, 2016 19:55

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