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Originally Posted by Keedy
You kinda answered your own question. If nobody else is spending their money there, why should you? Nintendo is likely to release a wii with updated graphics at some point sooner than the others, but the xbox and the PS3 are fine for years still. Also, a console launch costs them huge amounts, and is planned into the distant future. The consoles you buy cost WAY more to make than you buy them for, and the game licencing makes up the difference. All consoles have reached the break even point at this point, but rather recently. Microsoft did it sometime in 2008, and sony didn't hit theirs until 2009. An exception being the Wii, which was produced for only a small profit ($6 per console, i believe?)
Bleeding edge graphics is for the PC market. Consoles launch on year+ old technology, and sit on it for years to come. But the reason they can get away with this is that they don't have the overhead of an operating system running in the background, tying up system resources and running other applications, which has the effect of making 3 year old hardware handle like 1 year old hardware.
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/sigh yeah I guess you're right there. My inner geek just wants to see what a new playstation/xbox could do with graphics. The graphics are getting close to being photorealistic, but not quite there yet. And then, of course, make it into a freaking holodeck style display and my nerdgasm will be complete
