THQ Dissolved; Rumored PS4 and Xbox 720 Specs

I really chuckled at "Nextbox." I might have to adopt using that. "Xbox 720" sounds completely ridiculous (yes, more-so than the 360 which is bad enough). Why must all systems with good names (Dreamcast) fail?

Also, I read that Turtle Rock, the developer of Evolve, tried to acquire their game for 250k, yet were outbid by Take 2's $10.8 million. Kind of sad if they have to stop developing it.

Thanks for adding all that extra info about price with THQ. I almost feel a bit lazy that I didn't add it myself, and it's information that's almost necessary to the story.

Don't see why the hell we'd need 8 cores for, games on PC that use 4 cores don't even use them suffiently. On top of that, I really thought the specs might be somewhat better, and again let PC take the lead as usual. GPU and CPU are pretty slow, so I'm guessing graphics won't be an awful upgrade, atleast for the "Nextbox" anyway - ridiculous name.

Don't see why the hell we'd need 8 cores for, games on PC that use 4 cores don't even use them suffiently. On top of that, I really thought the specs might be somewhat better, and again let PC take the lead as usual. GPU and CPU are pretty slow, so I'm guessing graphics won't be an awful upgrade, atleast for the "Nextbox" anyway - ridiculous name.

I think the success of the Wii is really going to lead to consoles being a  more casual, for-the-masses option. I know they already were "casual" compared to high-end PC's, but I think this is going to be increasingly apparent next-gen. With that said, the specs of consoles don't really need to be as high as PC's; they are going to be extremely optimized for their sole purpose - running games.

I think the success of the Wii is really going to lead to consoles being a  more casual, for-the-masses option. I know they already were "casual" compared to high-end PC's, but I think this is going to be increasingly apparent next-gen. With that said, the specs of consoles don't really need to be as high as PC's; they are going to be extremely optimized for their sole purpose - running games.

Yes, but I think they could cut back on the 8 cores, to 4 and just have a faster processor and GPU. Regardless, it's not going to cost near as much as having an Intel processor, so they could easily kick up the speed without costing too much. Guess that would require more power though.

That being said, of course they don't need the specs of high-end gaming PC's, but if it's not going to be close, why bother? The PS3 and Xbox 360 are already at that level. The graphics cards are faster than before, but on the other hand, I don't think the Xbox/Nextbox CPU specs are right at all.

Anyway, if I don't get a PS4 for free/discount, I doubt I'll bother with either. Currently starting to build a high-end gaming PC, gonna cost me over €1000.