Electronic Arts chief creative officer Rich Hilleman is one of many people who expect this current generation to drag on and on. He believes that incremental updates will extend the lives of the PS3 and Xbox 360, and that a new line of systems won't happen until we see notable upgrades to the current machines.
"I expect we’ll see a PlayStation 3.5 before we see a PlayStation 4 and an Xbox 560 before we see an Xbox 720," he states.
He also adds that online games and digital distribution are the way forward, with quite a bold statement: "The biggest shift is how fast packaged goods games are changing and going away. If I want to go to see the past of gaming, I go to Japan. If I want to see the future, I go to Korea."
In South Korea there are over 28,000 internet game rooms, where customers pay an hourly fee to use the computers. Hilleman adds that over half of the country's 48 million people are into games. So, make sure you take a good, long look at South Korea, because that's where we're all headed.
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11:20 AM on 08.28.2009
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I might stop by to see up close...
Isn't the whole Natal/Sony EyeToy Motion Control like the added 0.5 on these gaming consoles? I really couldn't see them adding much more. I suppose a Blu-Ray player on the 360, but other then that...
idiots.
If he's saying we're expecting incremental updates to the systems, is this not what the twelve different SKUs represent?
The Reborn's retarded negativity is rubbing off on everyone on this site. I remember when it was actually a normal website, even when Summa was here...
People seem to be obsessed with getting new consoles, more than the typical fascination with hardware that our community has, and we're barely half way through the typical seven year cycle of a generation, let alone the ten year cycle that Sony will have us believe until we get a new console. Let's just use what we have for a while.
Well, I could go for a Wii-HD. But they'll never release it, 'cuz it sounds like weed.
EA says it so it must be true.
Oh and MATH FAIL!
@PappaDukes
MATH FAILs must be aknowledged although I agree that the reborn is a very un-entertaining troll compared to the work of "Just because you don't like a game doesn't mean you have to give it a low score!" EspadaAndy2 or even Nanbu! What ever happened to Nanbu? I miss his endless hate!
EA, I would be very surprised if you are correct.
I expect a proper Chrono Trigger remake before the next gen.
It doesn't mean it will happen, however.
makes me feel a lil nostalgic for old D'Toid
also math
Also, just because you don't like a game doesn't mean you have to give it a low score!
Fucking classic.
This guy has to be from Europe.
Blasphemy!!
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Then we go on to his Korea comment. Internet cafes really? Yeah I remember those were a big hit for a few years before everyone and their grandmother had broadband. Asian culture is completely different from ours, for some reason they enjoy being packed into seedy hole in the walls to play decade old games. His comment is comparable to saying Japan's experience a boom in arcades over the last couple of years so look out America the video arcade is the wave of future gaming.
Having guys like Rich Hilleman on EA's payroll should scare investors away. I'm going to make my own gaming prediction and say that EA's empire is going to fall in the not to distant future.
You forgot about the hot Korean girls!
acekard
Hey where did u find that pic? I wanna know that girls name.