MGS 4 Whos Got It?

I'm just hoping the apparently steep learning curve has peaked. Then there'd be no more excuses (the infamous "The PS3 is difficult to develop for" speech), and games are either good or bad based on development, not development learning curve and "learning curve" laziness.

 

I will have this game for free on july 3rd, thanks to a Canadian relative. kick ass!

 

All an expansion does is fragment the market though. We don't need system changing upgrades, we need a stable base for developers to create games on and better tools for them to utilize. This is what is happening.

 

Word, if PS3 had an expansion port, or Sony released a model with extra RAM, either case developers wouldnt be be able to fuly exploit the extra resources since doing so would alienate the rest of the installed base that didnt bought the expansion/has the old model.

It would merely up the graphics a little bit.

 

seeing how they ve released many versions of the PS3 within a single year and the parallels they draw with PCs ever more each generation, I wouldn't be surprised if memory expansion turns out to be a standard feature like HDDs someday in the console world.

 

I doubt that will ever happen. More likely we will reach a point where the processing is done remotely and the console is a dumb terminal.

 

Thats too far in the future Taucias, and I can see that happening for basic computing (like internet browsing, video & music download) but games are too resource-intensive, just look how expensive a gaming PC is compared to a regular one.

What I could see is a console that is sold on a subscription basis, so when a hardware update comes along (like extra RAM or even more critical parts) they mail you the new component along with the instructions to install it.

 

You can already basically do it in Citrix and terminal services with PC games. I reckon it might be 10-15 years off, but not much more than that. Especially when fibre is more common place.

 

Citrix is mostly corporate thin client stuff as far as I know.

What kind of games you mean? and hows the delay?

 

CITRIX SUCKS !

May have been a good technology 10 - 15 years ago, but with memory so cheap it makes no sense now.