Award winning 3D designer/modeling/illustrator, Tai Chiem of Victoria, Australia shows us a glimpse of the future (his future at least) of what the next generation PlayStation and XBox may look like. These conceptual designs named “PS4″ and “XBox 720″ integrates touchscreen technology in a sleek compact design. Tai Chiem explains his conceptual PlayStation 4,

As the designer expects, the Playstation 4 will sport a high end touch screen rather than glossy body that the current generation gaming console sports. The CD ROM has a sexy placement and a gloss cover that can be customized would definitely be an added advantage, what say? Even the PS4 controllers are designed to perfectly match with the console and will sport a few touch screen options. From the images given, it seems that the gen next Play station will also have an embedded OLED screen, which makes this Playstation 4 game console here twice as cool as expected, right?

I’m not a professional designer so I can only make comments based on what I like and dislike. The ideas are great, but the XBox 720 looks like a what an android crab’s shell would look like, and the PS4 looks like “HAL 9000″ (2001: A Space Odyssey) if he was designed by Ikea.

One thing I do notice is that whether it is a gamer/designer like Tai Chiem, or Sony and Microsoft, the controllers are hideous as hell.

Hit the jump to see close ups of Tai Chiem’s designs.

Check out Tai Chiem’s online portfolio.

Source: geekologie