| Considering how expensive these Pro consoles are, I can't see a new generation of consoles coming any time soon. At least not without a significant increase in price. Nintendo's Switch will certainly force Sony to play their hand much earlier than they otherwise would have, but unless they're making some kind of hybrid PS4, that's still a long way off. |
I reckon Sony should go ahead and release the PS5 around November next year • Page 3
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DangerousDave_87 7,074 posts
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LittleSparra 7,926 posts
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Registered 6 years agoI don't think the Switch will force them to do much. It isn't overlapping as much as ps4/xbone, and PS4 is still selling well asfaik.
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Fake_Blood 11,093 posts
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Registered 12 years agoIf the new xbox was a success they might have launched a new system at the end of the year, but I don’t think it’s going to happen. -
Dirt3 1,775 posts
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Registered 7 years agoI would guess that PS5 happens when a hardware solution 5-10x PS4 is available that can ship for 300-400 GBP.
PS4 is about 2TFlop in GPU power for example. so PS5 would need to be 10TFlop minimum (about 2.5x PS4 Pro).
Since the One X is 6 Tlops and currently is at 450GBP this doesn't look like it's going to happen anytime soon.
I think the base platform will move to the PS4Pro/XB1X. There is an increasing chance IMO that in 2-3 years time PS4Pro/XB1X only games will be released/allowed. I reckon PS5/XB2 will not happen til around 2022. -
BigOrkWaaagh 10,554 posts
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Registered 14 years agoStuz359 wrote:
When was that? I don't remember that ever being the case.
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Nazo 1,951 posts
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Registered 12 years agoBigOrkWaaagh wrote:
PS1 era I guess, PC 3d cards were still the their infancy then.
Stuz359 wrote:
When was that? I don't remember that ever being the case.
My only problem is that I remember when consoles were the pinnacle of tech and that's not going to happen anymore. -
Cappy 14,393 posts
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Registered 16 years agoConsoles have often been quite competitive, at various times, PCs tended to have a massive brute force advantage when it came to RAM but you'd often see PC games pushing lower poly models than contemporary console titles in the 90s.
Both the PS2 and PS3 were pretty interesting from a CPU architecture standpoint and could do some neat tricks.
We are in an age where standardisation comes first, it's possible that we'll never see a PS2 or a PS3 style console again and everything will be primarily off the shelf components. -
AceGrace 3,464 posts
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Registered 11 years agoWhich is very sad. I enjoyed the bullshit that comes with a different CPU. Emotion engine etc.... -
DangerousDave_87 7,074 posts
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Registered 5 years ago@FuzzyDucky I was merely going on the fact that the Switch looks set to out sell the PS4 in Japan this year having made 3/5ths of the PS4s total sales in Japan in just 10 months. Admittedly the PS4 topped the hardware chats over there this week for the first time in yonks, but the console is selling well enough to demonstrate that the PS4 isn't having the most amazing run in its home country. Rather its just not had any competition until now.
Its also not lacking on the software front, either. Not at all.
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Frogofdoom 17,973 posts
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Registered 9 years agoRather than new consoles I would like to see the x and the pro become the standard model via price cuts over the next couple of years and then just introduce another premium spec. It fixes the BC issue and at the point that happens just cut the launch models out of the new game dev. It would keep costs down for gamers and stop the bullshit with peripheral fleecing each generation. -
FuzzyDucky wrote:
I'd quite like Frogofdoom's idea, having just bought a non pro I wouldn't be gutted to jump to a PS5 in a couple of years if I could keep my game library.
Frogofdoom wrote:
Still gonna be limited by the piss-weak CPU though and people with the current base consoles will feel ripped off if new games only come to the Pro consoles and they have to pony up for what appears to be a half-assed upgrade.
Rather than new consoles I would like to see the x and the pro become the standard model via price cuts over the next couple of years and then just introduce another premium spec. It fixes the BC issue and at the point that happens just cut the launch models out of the new game dev. It would keep costs down for gamers and stop the bullshit with peripheral fleecing each generation.
But as you say, the CPU becomes the problem because anything that's CPU bound 30FPS on the PS 5 would run like arse on the PS Pro.
How Sony and MS deal with this issue will be interesting.
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