Analyst: Next-Gen Starts in 2010

I wonder whats is going to be the name of the next nintendo console... Wii-2, Wiii, Wii-II ?

this is ridiculous. The xbox360 only has about 300 games out for it now and they're going to release a new console in 2 years? IF they do release a new console it had better
1) be 100% compatible with the 360
2) have a Blu Ray drive in it
3) Include alot of bells and whistles that the 360 didn't have (wireless adapter, HDMI etc. etc.)
4) come with a 500GB HDD
5) cost $300.

Basically, just a better designed 360.

*cough cough* BULLSHIT *cough cough*
We've barely just cracked the potential of the current gen machines, and with dev times eaking up towards 2 years per title easy, it's going to be longer than 2010 before anyone is ready for next next gen.

I dare not even think of how great the graphics will be in ten years. And how blank will be the aesthetics of the 98% of the games who will use them. :(

I'd want to see Shadow of the Collossus for next gen, I'd want to see Myst, Zelda, Tron, Spore, Another World.. I want style and originality to please my eyes and my brain.Yet 80% of the games will use regular 'realistic setting' and/or realistic rendering stuff, and 80% of those games will be poorly produced. :(

I want to see the creativity we had in the late 80s/early 90s. Face it, 80% of the game were really bad, but 80% of them were also really original. For the two last generations many games have been really well done, but very few are actually *original* (visually).

I don't think it will happen for MS at least, the Xbox 360 will stick around longer probably as long as the PS3 before a successor is introduced.

All the hardware would bring is the ability to do what is currently being done at 1920x1080 and the Xbox 360's own very good scaler downplays the need for 1080p res games.

Fragmenting the developer and user base of your platform is not a good thing to do especially with the insane development costs of today's games. Would you end up with a lower res 720p game on the Xbox 360 and a higher red 1080p game on the Xbox720 ? I know the Xbox borrows a lot from PC gaming but that is pushing it.

Nintendo on other hand that's a maybe, if they were looking to get more multi-platform support a Wii-2 with a more conventional GPU hardware would go a long way towards securing more third party titles that are only on the Xbox 360/PS3 even if the Wii-2 hardware is only outputting SD resolutions with lower quality assets.

I still cant even get a fuckin Wii.

That is one of those pictures we will be referencing in 2010 as a hilarious example of "what a console might be from 2008." Kind of like the Duke Forever screenshots from 1999 that are posted here

I'm okay with dropping $400 on a new console every 5 years.

It's sure as hell a fuckload better than the PC upgrade cycle.

This is so crazy premature. It's about time we start thinking about the current gen as a platform for serious longevity -- graphics are good enough as it is. I don't think we really need anything announced 2 years from now.

Cool, I have next-gen.
No, you have this-gen.
What? I just upgraded from this-gen.
No, now that's last-gen.
When is next-gen?
Later.
What will next-gen be later?
This-gen.
What will my last-gen be later?
Downloadable content for next-gen's this-gen.
So my last-gen games will be callbacks to this-gen in next-gen?
Third base!

Wow @ Sony planning a 10 year life span for PS3. But I guess the PS2 has been around 7 years so far.

I wonder if next gen will be on Blueray DVD's? Or a new and better format of the future?

Next-Gen already started. You know where I'm going with this.

This sounds about right to me and what I have been saying to friends for a while.

I like this!

Nothing like an estimate on when we'll be looking at the next generation short, fat and hairy Italian plumber.

Shouldn't this be Next Next Gen?

PS3 10 year life cycle; for a second there I thought they meant that Sony won't release a new console for another nine years. Hahah. Nine years from now we're going to have a hardy laugh at how 'realistic' we thought the graphics were back in 2008. "Remember when we thought Crysis looked amazing and almost photo-real?"

Well, in all fairness, it's been 13 years since "Toy Story", and we still haven't achieved that degree of graphical fidelity, even though our shaders today are more advanced than then.

That image is pretty rad looking - when and where did that surface?

HAH! watch game consoles start to resemble the car market. "OMGZ did you see the new 2010 Xbox!? Leather interior and GPS!"

I think the DS will be going strong long after 2010.

Already going for the new "Next-Gen". Check it out they just had a price drop on the PS4 its $1000 now.