What would you like to see in new videogame systems?

Real photo realistic graphics= as good as games look these days you can still tell that they are just games.

Virtual Reality=This was the big in the mid 90's but I think it was something that was way ahead of it's time.

Mind controllers=Will probably not happen anytime soon though

No more load times=The best thing about carts is that we didn't suffer from load times. DVD,'s and Blu-Ray are still based off of old CD-Rom technology which is over 32 years old. But there doesn't seem to be much in the pipeline that will differ from this particular format.

Systems that aren't noisy=since the emergance of disc based systems, they have gotten louder and louder. Then they now have to have fans. I miss the days when u could turn on a system and it didn't sound like a PC.

Physical media=i'm sorry but when I buy a game I want to actually be able to hold it in my hands. I mite wanna trade it or even let my brother or a friend borrow it. Can't do that with digital copies.

VMU2=This was a great idea back in the day but for some odd reason nobody has really used it again.

Price=Can we not have launch prices that reminisce the 3D0 and Saturn? 399 for the premium 360 then 599 for the premium PS3. Those prices were so bad that Nintendo was able to "overprice" it's Wii and get away with it. Hey's it's GCN+ but we will call it a Wii and sale it way over cost.

No more proprietary formats=Hello M$

Reliable Hardware=Hello M$ again. They usurped that title from Sony with ease.

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Originally Posted by Da_Shocker

No more load times=The best thing about carts is that we didn't suffer from load times. DVD,'s and Blu-Ray are still based off of old CD-Rom technology which is over 32 years old. But there doesn't seem to be much in the pipeline that will differ from this particular format.

Systems that aren't noisy=since the emergance of disc based systems, they have gotten louder and louder. Then they now have to have fans. I miss the days when u could turn on a system and it didn't sound like a PC.

Physical media=i'm sorry but when I buy a game I want to actually be able to hold it in my hands. I mite wanna trade it or even let my brother or a friend borrow it. Can't do that with digital copies.

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Yeah, I do hate how everybody is just trying to sell us a super-PC with a game controller these days.

I would like to be able to put more than one disc in and switch between them like a cd player. If they make the PS3 this huge they might as well have a better reason.

Mind if I be nitpicky?

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Originally Posted by Da_Shocker
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Real photo realistic graphics= as good as games look these days you can still tell that they are just games.
Well, the absolute newest game hardware we have is from late 2006 (the PS3, of course) - I'd imagine that in the last four years there's some powerful stuff cooking in Microsoft & Sony's R&D labs, though. Probably something evolutionary like 3D instead of better-resolution-than-real-life?

Virtual Reality=This was the big in the mid 90's but I think it was something that was way ahead of it's time.
This is probably more suited to the arcade scene; it took Nintendo's PR budget to convince people that waving a white stick around was a good thing - putting on a helmet is something else.

Mind controllers=Will probably not happen anytime soon though
Another option that's still in the very very preliminary development stage, I'd guess it's years before we even start seeing this available on the market, let alone used for gaming.

No more load times=The best thing about carts is that we didn't suffer from load times. DVD,'s and Blu-Ray are still based off of old CD-Rom technology which is over 32 years old. But there doesn't seem to be much in the pipeline that will differ from this particular format.
Really, it depends how compressed the game is to fit inside the cartridge - complex DS games, for example, do suffer from load times as the data is compressed/recompressed. My thoughts are that digitally-distributed titles offer the best of both worlds - so long as they fit on a hard drive, there's no spinning disc to read. 'Installing' 360 games helps with games that often read the disc,too (GTA, Unreal Engine games etc)

Systems that aren't noisy=since the emergance of disc based systems, they have gotten louder and louder. Then they now have to have fans. I miss the days when u could turn on a system and it didn't sound like a PC.
I don't know, I've heard some pretty hefty PC graphics card fans. Also, install your 360 games! :P

Physical media=i'm sorry but when I buy a game I want to actually be able to hold it in my hands. I mite wanna trade it or even let my brother or a friend borrow it. Can't do that with digital copies.
The reason the original Xbox Live Arcade title size limit was 50MB was to get around this: the idea was, people could download or copy their Arcade games onto the 360's Memory Unit and pass it around like a disc. Of course with multi-gig games now that's out the window unless you want to pass someone your hard drive. I'll give you the trading option - although again Live Arcade digital games are required to give you a demo beforehand so you know what you're buying. I'd love an option to remove a game and its achievements from your gamertag and credit you the points or pass it on to someone else, though.

VMU2=This was a great idea back in the day but for some odd reason nobody has really used it again.
Sony kind of dropped the ball with this - they touted all kinds of interactivity options between the PSP and the PS3, but I don't think anything came of it besides the daft Remote Play idea.

Price=Can we not have launch prices that reminisce the 3D0 and Saturn? 399 for the premium 360 then 599 for the premium PS3. Those prices were so bad that Nintendo was able to "overprice" it's Wii and get away with it. Hey's it's GCN+ but we will call it a Wii and sale it way over cost.
That's what comes with your photo-realistic hardware: if you want the 360's graphical power, you pay the premium or get a Wii. If you want the PS3's Blu-Ray drive, you pay the premium or buy a Wii.

No more proprietary formats=Hello M$
Yeah, I hate those proprietary Mega Drive cartridges and the Dreamcast's GD-ROM technology. Down with stuff I can't pirate!

Reliable Hardware=Hello M$ again. They usurped that title from Sony with ease.
Again, complex hardware. You'd think that someone at MS' R&D would have noticed a hot console and thought 'urk that's bad', but sometimes shit just breaks. MS acknowledged the design flaw, and since the launch of the 360's there's been umpteen design changes to cut down the heat, plus there's also the extended warranty for the RROD.


What would I like?
Cross-platform integration. I'd cream my jeans if my console could monitor my email, Facebook and RSS feeds, and they were somehow linked into the games I played. If that experience could then be taken away - say, by a mobile phone application - so I could then get a similar experience on the move, and again have it all work inside one ecosystem, I'd be really impressed.

Example: I'm playing an RPG on my Xbox 1080 (hur). An alert pops up from my internet calendar reminding me that I'm meeting someone later, so I save my game and turn the machine off. While I'm on the train I boot up the Xbox application on my phone, read through some of the side-quests I'm still waiting to finish, and amuse myself by playing through a few minigames while I wait. When I close the application, the gold I've won is uploaded to my savegame on my Gamertag's online storage space for me to sync up next time I turn my home console on. Hooray, I've received an Achievement for the gold I won while I was away, so I take a screengrab and post it along with a comment on my Facebook wall.

All I need in a console is either black and slick or wood-grained with a controller that is a joystick and a button (or six buttons and a D-Pad). Everything should go back to sprites. Screw innovation! Nazis had innovative ways to be mean, and what'd that get us? Nothing! Innovation is for whiny graphic snobs and Nazis! ;)

I think I've made my point. :D

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Originally Posted by Da_Shocker

Systems that aren't noisy=since the emergance of disc based systems, they have gotten louder and louder. Then they now have to have fans. I miss the days when u could turn on a system and it didn't sound like a PC.

Physical media=i'm sorry but when I buy a game I want to actually be able to hold it in my hands. I mite wanna trade it or even let my brother or a friend borrow it. Can't do that with digital copies.

Price=Can we not have launch prices that reminisce the 3D0 and Saturn? 399 for the premium 360 then 599 for the premium PS3. Those prices were so bad that Nintendo was able to "overprice" it's Wii and get away with it. Hey's it's GCN+ but we will call it a Wii and sale it way over cost.

Reliable Hardware=Hello M$ again. They usurped that title from Sony with ease.

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You want PC power and ultimate graphics with none of the pitfalls of PC hardware... good luck there.

Definitely in agreement there!

Again:daze: you want something that's as powerful as a PC but doesn't even cost a 1/4 of what a powerful PC costs... dream on... dream on.

It's called... a computer.

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Originally Posted by oldmanwinters

Yeah, I do hate how everybody is just trying to sell us a super-PC with a game controller these days.

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LOL!!!!!!!! You mean overpriced and severely underpowered :cool:

An official homebrew mode for hobbyist developers that is free and exist in all revisions of the console.

Downloadable content that allows you to temporarely transport games to your friends' consoles, and find a natural way for both developers and customers to benefit from second hand sales.

I agree with photorealistic graphics and Mind controllers.

And about the "super-pc" comment, I think game consoles still have the advantage of running less processes at a time than a PC, having priority for the game and online service instead of multiple windows of browsers, editors, and malware :p. As long as they stay that way, they're competitive to PC's.

From Microsoft, a console that doesn't die after a few months of use.

From Nintendo, some actual innovation in the way of new games as opposed to rehash after rehash.

From Sony, a console that doesn't take forever to gain a bit of steam.

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Originally Posted by JRedmond3

From Microsoft, a console that doesn't die after a few months of use. I agree

From Nintendo, some actual innovation in the way of new games as opposed to rehash after rehash. I agree From Sony, a console that doesn't take forever to gain a bit of steam. hey that was the first time this had happend to sony!!!

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Anyway, I just want my consoles to be a damn video game machine im sick of all this crap thier adding to it. I dont give a crap about my facebook while im on my ps3/360. Thats what my computer is for.
I dont mind some download only things like small "arcade" style games like uno or fatt princess but I would like my games in the future to at least have some kind of physical media, even if disk get replaced with something else like a mini card or something. As long as I have it in possesion plus I collect games so the lil case it came in would be sweet on my shelf.

Graphics can improve more with time, but they should still release some good
2d games, hell imo 2d games are some of the funniest out there.
I dont mind the high launch price as long as it doesnt get 3do type of high.
Also any classic franchise relased as 2d should have a physical copy not just download only....."sonic 4".......:mad:

And Please keep motion control as a option for a game dont make it the only damn option!!!! Hate playing non "gimick" games on the wii i.e marvel ultimate alliance, for fucks sake I dont want to slash my arm around when im wolverine!!
2 cents

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Yeah, I hate those proprietary Mega Drive cartridges and the Dreamcast's GD-ROM technology. Down with stuff I can't pirate!

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Wait who was talkin about piracy? With the 360 u cant use stock USB controllers nor can you even use similar M$ products with the 360.

What I really want to see is not in graphics,but getting rid of damn blockades in the way of my game. I start up a console with a game inside, I want to play a game, not go through menus and whatnot. The Wii,360, PS3, all of them do it. Overall its a pain in the ass.

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Originally Posted by GriskaGyoran

What I really want to see is not in graphics,but getting rid of damn blockades in the way of my game. I start up a console with a game inside, I want to play a game, not go through menus and whatnot. The Wii,360, PS3, all of them do it. Overall its a pain in the ass.

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This. It's also part of the reason why I like the Dreamcast and the Saturn so much, you can actually bypass the system startup logos by pushing start.

2d games and not 2d mixed with 3d

Hmm, I think I'd like to see more 6-button controllers
and better D-pads. No modern gen console has a good
D-Pad. The last console that had it, was the Saturn. Maybe
the PlayStation has a nice one, but it's just not as good.
Gamecube had sort of a good one too, but the controller
just sucks in too many other respects.

And I'd like to see more creativity. In the 90s almost
everything was some sort of platformer and now almost
everything is some sort of an ego-shooter. Some genres
work well, yes, but it is time to switch again. I've definately
had enough ego-shooters, which suck without a mouse
and a keyboard anyway. Why not bring back some enhanced
platformers, or make the games at least 3rd person with
extremely easy aiming like Resident Evil?