Let's talk about Evolutionary Consoles

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I couldn't agree more. And I've been saying this for over a year now (probably).

There are a lot that don't like how this sounds. or just cant think outside the box enough to understand why it's gonna be the case, but then again that's why we have people that are just consumers and people that are creators.

The current business model as it is, just can't continue for ever. Bit just from a hardware point, but also from a content perspective too.

Hardware innovation is slowing to a crawl, and not just talking about chip architecture, but talking about fabrication too. It took us about 6yrs to go from 90nm to 28nm, then they were stuck there for over 5yrs and only now are we beginning to see signs of 14nm processors. CPU clocks rocketed from 200mhz all the way up to 4+GHz in less than 5yrs, and now we have been stuck there for over 10yrs. If all that doesn't scream that hardware innovation is stalling I don't know what else will.

Then look at the content. We are at a point where IQ quality has basically bokled down to resolution, texture resolution and framerate. And this is so insignificant that telling apart games running on a $4000 rig and those running on a $400 system isn't even as night and day as some may expect.

And what was their solution, parallel processing. But even that stalled cause while you may have lots of cores running simultaneously, writing code to take advantage of all those codes is an outright nightmare. and makes trouble shooting super difficult.

There are no doubt caveats with everything tho, even an iterative console system. But the simple truth is that it's benefits outweigh it cons. On the current system you upgrade every 5-7yrs. and that's it. start again. With an iterative system, you can still choose to upgrade every 5-7yrs if you want. Or choose to do so every 3-4yrs. And yes, one day... that console you bought would be so antiquated that it wouldn't support the new games anymore, but at that time that very box would have had over 8-10yrs of life. It's still the same thing, the lines have just been blurred.