I have very strong opinions about the Xi3 business in particular, so I’m curious to see what Jason’s take is since he was there in person.

SHIELD just seems bizarre, to be honest. I don’t see the selling point at any price point but maybe it’s my particular hangups.

It’s gonna take something pretty amazing from either party to get me to jump on a console. I’m getting nice and comfy in my PC gaming cave

RE: consoles – So it sounds like y’all want a PC. It is, after all, exactly what y’all were describing. :p

But no, there will be a rather noticable jump between this console generation and the next. Y’all are focused on the wrong things as far as next gen consoles go. There will be an improvement, NOT because of graphics (though those will see some improvements due to the improved physics, lighting, and particle systems that games will be able to push), but instead because of processing power, and more importantly (IMO) the sheer amount of RAM. Current consoles are restricted to 512 megs total, and the games cannot access the entirety of that (especially on the PS3 due to the split-pool memory it uses. Apparently it requires 256mb at all times to be allocated to everything that isn’t the game, so games on the PS3 supposedly have 256 megs to work with at any one time. Likely one of the major reasons the PS3 version of Skyrim had so many issues, especially when taking into account the fact that the Creation Engine saves cell and scripting data directly into the save game for unfathomable reasons).

David Hughes: Some (actually quite a bit) of the commentary I read on 4K TVs forgets just how long HDTV adoption took, and that it’s not even universal yet.

You could argue with the importance of consoles to overall game development that 4K adoption is a bad thing, because devs will be pressured to support insane resolutions instead of pushing image quality or, gasp, more inventive game mechanics and systems.

You could argue that. I certainly will. :p

And I totally agree about 4K penetration. The years and numbers I gave were very optimistic ones.

I want an X-Boy.