@ShambyIzaZK This is still going to release for 360 too though...

@rarson Another problem with PC games is that a dev wants as many PC gamers as possible to be able to play their game, and that means they have to create a game that is scalable and can still run on outdated hardware. And that means that, while the game might look fantastic on high-end machines, it might not include features that a lesser machine couldn't handle, such as certain types of destruction, advanced physics, etc.If next-gen console hardware is high-end, then a game only has to be optimized for that hardware, and the devs don't have to accommodate any sort of "lowest common denominator". Everyone playing on that console is able to experience the same features, since the hardware is standardized.

@LeeroyPinkerton Blech, they refer to video games as "packaged goods". Reminds me of that one Kotick quote:

http://www.industrygamers.com/news/bobby-koticks-goal-to-take-all-the-fun-out-of-making-video-games/

@LeeroyPinkerton Except I'm guessing the money MS gave them still wouldn't equal the money they're going to lose from the 50 million PS3 owners who can't buy the game.

@LeeroyPinkerton They definitely intended for their game to be multi-platform, at one point they were posting tons of job offerings asking specifically for PS3 dev experience.Why Destiny is Xbox-exclusive, I have no idea.

@Reuwsaat 98% of us probably wouldn't buy the PS4 tomorrow if it costs $600 again.

I only bought a PS3 once it had been out for more than 2 years and the price had been slashed considerably.

@syedhashmi The PS2 has a 10-year lifespan, and for 4 of those years it was coexisting with the PS3.

The 360 and PS3 will probably keep being supported for several years after the new consoles come out. I'd predict that the 2013 and 2014 Call of Dutys are released for all 5 consoles, 360, PS3, PS4, 720 and Wii U, or at least until the new consoles have really started selling well.And I would expect that the online services for the 360 and PS3 are supported for at least another 5 years alongside the new consoles.

@rarson Yeah, when you consider that the current consoles can run some fairly impressive-looking games when they only have 512 mb of GDDR3 (or the equivalent) in total, it makes me salivate at the thought of what they could do with, say, 4 gb system RAM and 1 gb GDDR5, and maxed out the capabilites of a console like that.

^ Plus, a console with those specs would be comparable to a late 2009-early 2010 gaming PC, and would be fairly cheap to manufacture at this point.

@tachsniper @emptycow @mmachine47 He's sort of right, to a point. The 360 versions of Crysis 2 and and Battlefield 3 look fairly comparable to their PC counterparts, just at a lower resolution and with zero anti-aliasing.