I agree with you. No console is future-proof. Don't believe the hype. I expect PS4 to be released in the next 4-5 years. No way sony will make the same mistake of giving M$ and Nin a head start with the next-gen consoles.
Interesting that you want to get into the game biz. What skool u going to? From what I read, many of the well known devs don't prefer schooling. They feel that level designers, modders, makers of total conversions, etc have more experience than what schools provide. A coworker's nephew formerly worked at Bungie. They left them and former their own game company, Wideload games or something. He is a game writer. A good game industry mag you should get is Game Developer. gamasutra.com also has good info on the industry. Good luck
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Originally Posted by bboncorr
I also plan on starting a gaming company. i'm starting school for that fairly soon and hope less then 10 years from now you guys will be around to kill my games and talk b.s. about little issues. who knows i might ask some of you to become beta testers on whatever console is hot.
i really don't see either system have a 10 year future proof design. the ps3 is already running into issues with with compound overlooked design flaws. maybe flaws isn't a term you guys would look but when a company builds a system like that and certain parts of the hardware limit its potential then how can it be fututre proof for 10 years.
if the system had,
firewire, 3D capable, HD audio, true HDMI 1.3, 2G Memory, double its bottlenecks, and a few other features then a 10 year future proof span would be reasonable but that's not the case.
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