Similar price point as the Wii U if I recall correctly.
Despite being mid-cycle, it will be up against the Xbox One S and PS4 Pro. Plus the current economy with a weak pound against the dollar will not help.
However, if this time they get marketing down and a good line up of launch games then I think it could easily outsell the Wii U.
@origamibomber: Same, but then again I got it on 360(was £10 cheaper) so glad to have it on PS3 now. Just nice alongside having Persona 4 Golden on PS Vita along with Dancing All Night.
@chippiez: Hmm, not sure it's entirely accurate what you say. 7th gen consoles were released circa 2005~. Yet PC's have had multi-core CPUs since before then, an excerpt from Wiki:
"Processors were originally developed with only one core. In the mid 1980s Rockwell International manufactured versions of the 6502 with two 6502 cores on one chip as the R65C00, R65C21, and R65C29,[3][4] sharing the chip's pins on alternate clock phases. Other multi-core processors were developed in the early 2000s by Intel,AMD and others."
As for hyper-threading: "It first appeared in February 2002 on Xeon server processors and in November 2002 on Pentium 4 desktop CPUs."
P.s, I don't get the entire "PC vs Consoles". Different strokes for different folkes. I own both, I love both. I am neither master race nor peasant. I am a gamer.
@megakoresh: Surprised it cost you that much. In 2011 I built my current computer which is a i5 2500K, AMD 7950 3GB(though I have changed this to a 290 since), 16GB of Corsair XMS3 1600Mhz RAM and it cost me about £1100, which I think is like €1500. Then again, I did shop around for ages to get the best deals and re-used an old monitor, mouse and keyboard.
@halvedlife: Not sure a lot of what you've said is true.
1. Not really constant upgrades. I am still running quite happily an i5 2500K @ 4.4Ghz from 2011, most recent upgrade was from a 7950 GPU to a 290 about a year or so ago. It wasn't an expensive build and yet I am able to run most games at high/ultra at 1440p. So not really constant upgrades to be honest.
2. You should check out GoG.com if you want to play old games without messing about with workarounds, also, without workarounds its hard to get your PS4 to play say, PS2 games or your Wii U to play N64 games etc. So your point doesn't really make much sense there.
3. Have you used Windows 10? It runs great, sorry if you've had bad experiences with Windows 10 but I have to say I have had no issues at all.
4. Hmm, I am pretty sure games on consoles have had their fair share of problems. I mean google "unity xbox graphic issues" and so forth. FO4 is also known to have stuttering and some FPS issues on consoles, sure nothing that is game breaking, but hardly faultless.
5. I personally hate the word "fanboy", I think fanboys of any platform should go do one. Okay we get it, you don't like this platform or you love that one, well don't buy the one you dislike! I am not a fan of the Xbox One, but I don't outright hate it. But I do own a PC, Wii U, PS4, Vita, 3DS and they aren't perfect but I like them for various reasons. I also agree that "Master Race" is a stupid thing, very pretentious to be honest.
I'm not saying all the above to just ignore criticism to one of the platforms I enjoy, but please do back it up with facts and not personal opinion, or at least state when it is personal opinion rather than present it as fact. That is all.
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