What format do you think each Company will use next gen and give opinions

BluRay for Microsoft, maybe nintendo. All will also use DD, but there will be a physical format of some type.

I wouldnt mind if everything went to sd cards... No spinning tray and they could pick and choose the size of the card depending on the game. I can't imagine that route would be cost efficiant however.

All will use BD. Unless they choose the Wii way, so in that case still DVD. DD will still be optional for small/indie/old games.

I think Nintendo will shift to DD for their handhelds considering how well Dsiware is doing and how Apple is doing well with a DD model for games. Sony will probably switch to a common portable format or fully go DD (hopefully they'll realize their mistake with the GO). Microsoft with their windows phone 7 of course use DD for any game on their mobil format. Microsoft might edge closer to being a DD home console manufacturer but will probably still employ some sort of physical format. Sony and Nintendo will stay with physical format but will probably experiment more. Apple (if it joins next gen, which is possible) will definetely use DD.

Im sure MS and NIntendo will stick with dated tech and Sony will most likely beef up the Cell with a better GPU. Can you imagine how good games would look with the Cell(faster PPE and SPE's with more individual memory) and a current GPU?djsifer01

and yet sony never ends up with the greatest games each gen. they have good ones, but they can hardly be called the best of the best

Sony:Blu Ray, MS:Blu Ray,Nin:DVD9,PSP2:No format(hard drive)

Hopefully Blu-ray and a SSD for storage.

[QUOTE="djsifer01"]Im sure MS and NIntendo will stick with dated tech and Sony will most likely beef up the Cell with a better GPU. Can you imagine how good games would look with the Cell(faster PPE and SPE's with more individual memory) and a current GPU?Half-Way

and yet sony never ends up with the greatest games each gen. they have good ones, but they can hardly be called the best of the best

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It was not successful in market share just like the PS3 they went from on top to squirming

ghost392

Except the PS3 didn't just lose SCE their market share, it cost them billions of dollars in losses. This sort of thing was never a problem for Nintendo.

SEGA was 3rd place in the N64 Gen. and the Dreamcast was 4th place, last gen.

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[QUOTE="djsifer01"]Im sure MS and NIntendo will stick with dated tech and Sony will most likely beef up the Cell with a better GPU. Can you imagine how good games would look with the Cell(faster PPE and SPE's with more individual memory) and a current GPU?coltsfan4ever

and yet sony never ends up with the greatest games each gen. they have good ones, but they can hardly be called the best of the best

not just mine, most reviewers agree with me, gamerankings ; SMG = this gen, last gen it was metroid Prime, and the gen before that was Zelda OoT

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Except the PS3 didn't just lose SCE their market share, it cost them billions of dollars in losses. This sort of thing was never a problem for Nintendo.

HavocV3

SEGA was 3rd place in the N64 Gen. and the Dreamcast was 4th place, last gen.

Well my point is they all try horrible new formats and fall down despite being a powerful machine

I read somewhere that Microsoft was in talks with GE, whom were working on a holographic disc, which can hold almost a terabyte of data. I also read in a Game Informer that Sony was also developing a new format, which holds about the same as the GE holographic format. Can you imagine having the capabilities to have an entire movie collection on one disc? Can't wait!

I read somewhere that Microsoft was in talks with GE, whom were working on a holographic disc, which can hold almost a terabyte of data. I also read in a Game Informer that Sony was also developing a new format, which holds about the same as the GE holographic format. Can you imagine having the capabilities to have an entire movie collection on one disc? Can't wait!

godzillavskong

sony wiill stick to bluray

microsoft will move up to bluray

nintendo might also move up to bluray

given that their next console is said to be hd , why wouldnti t ,

digital distribution being optional next gen ,like it is now

for ds their using same cards but different guts and possibly bigger in size=storage space

psp 2 may end up using umd ,

if there is a psp2