For sound? Not so much. We have actually been down this Audio path once before... Aka. Aureal A3D, before Creative bought them up and shuttered them.

Also. Nothing has been confirmed, these are rumors, grain of salt and all of that.

Supercomputer on a chip not happening then?

Fast wireless charging is pretty accessible now, even earphones are coming with the technology these days.

However, I would personally prefer hot-swappable AA batteries personally... But I doubt that will happen, not with a Sony console anyway.

Well. Nothing is confirmed yet.
On the Ray Tracing side... Pascal is capable of Ray Tracing, but it's much more limited compared to Turing, not just in performance but how extensive the effects are, I would expect the same to hold true for Ray Tracing on Graphics Core Next.
Ray Tracing is an inherently compute limited issue.

As for the SSD side of the equation... Zen 2 will be leveraging PCI-E 4.0, so I would assume the SSD would be using that bus for an insane amount of bandwidth, still got my doubts it will be a useful amount of storage though, not with the size of games today and the price of NAND.
Might be a hybrid approach.

Citation needed.

End of the day... If it comes packed with a large and fast SSD... Then it's good for gamers and I am happy to be wrong... But the original idea was that it won't come with an SSD and fit in at the $400 USD price point, still stand by that.

Still. Console hasn't launched yet... Still skeptical that it won't be anything more than a cache/hybrid setup at most... 1 Terabyte SSD's aren't exactly cheap enough for consoles yet.

Mechanical Hard Drives aren't completely useless, that benchmark uses a 1 Terabyte Western Digital Black which is far from being the fastest mechanical disk on the market... Those drives came out in 2008 and usually topped out at around 100MB/s.. Today's decent mechanical disks can top out at around 180-250MB/s.

Plus next-generation mechanical disks are about to launch with Microwave/Heat assisted recording, multiple actuators, larger Ram pools and faster processors, they still won't beat an SSD, but by no means are they useless, especially in sequential reads.

Probably integrated straight onto the motherboard to reduce costs and complexity and piggy backing off PCI-Express. What will be interesting is if Sony will still include expandable storage via a SATA outlet.

Stadia beats the Xbox One X. It's Vega 56 vs Radeon RX 580 levels of difference. (I.E. Bit less than double the performance.)

This console is likely to best Stadia.

Also likely confirms that Zen 2 is going to have 8-core CPU complexes. Which is a good thing in my eyes.

The exception here is if the console has the NAND integrated onto the motherboard and will cache any and all drives on the system automagically.
Just like SSD Cache drives of old on the PC.

Keep in mind these benchmarks are from 7 years ago and the drive is only 30GB... But there was still a massive reduction in loads.
https://hothardware.com/reviews/hard-drive-overdrive-corsairs-accelerator-series-reviewed-?page=4

Makes you wonder how a modern drive using PCI-E would do.

Sony do not own the IP to Navi.
Navi is Graphics Core Next, it predates even the Playstation 4.

Sony wouldn't even get a look-in on building the GPU in question, they can make suggestions, but you can bet AMD would like to keep it's IP.

The irony is... We were heading down this road in regards to Audio, then in the last decade or so the entire industry went backwards.
The Original Xbox for example had Sound-storm which could do full positional 3D audio... And even the PC was a step above even that with Aureal A3D.

Stadia is more powerful than XBO X and PS4 Pro combined. That was confirmed by the specs shown at its reveal. I don't know where you heard that it's only XBO X-level, but that's false.

Stadia is also shooting for 4K 60fps at launch, with 8K 60fps as time progressed. I don't really like thrown out numbers like that anyway because it's just unsubstantiated flexing, but that's also something that was said explicitly at reveal. It has as much validity atm as anything confirmed so far for PS5.

I'm really just curious how streaming platforms will compare spec-wise to standalone consoles. The next 3 years will be buy far the most interesting in gaming since maybe the Wii/DS/XB Live era. So transformative with streaming, VR, and new hybrid platforms like Switch entering the mainstream. (pun intended) Considering rumors of PS5 being $500, I wonder if they'll consider selling a cheaper $400/$450 model that's digital only. Exciting times!

I call bullshit on that. We see games loading faster and streaming data better on Xbox One X even without a SSD. We even see 360 content benefit significantly from BC like faster loading and less texture pop in issues.

SSDs certainly help load times, mostly in open world games as well. But when open world games are actually running its CPUs, GPUs and RAM that matter.

With that said we're likely gonna be stuck with 1TB SSD, but I guess they determined its fine for the average consumer.

Turning rumble off and turning the controller light dimmer probably help somewhat, but I tend to have gaming sessions so long that even those are not enough. My solution? An extra controller. It's so convenient, I always have a fully charged controller at the ready when the other one dies out. If you don't wanna pony up for another controller(which may be used in local co-op as well), just get a long ass charging cable so you can charge while playing.

Haptic feedback? Nah, I'm good.

Well from my understanding it wont be native 8k support just like PS4 Pro 4k support, this will be sony next iteration of their check boarding rendering, which will be beneficial for VR and also Cheap AA solution via super sampling an upscale 8k image. 

Not sure if someone already corrected this but I believe the PSN number you are referring to is the revenue & you're comparing to Nintendo's profit - so apples and oranges!

I think they mean more in the sense of a games being re-released. Take Halo MCC. There is little fathomable reason to make a Xbox Next version of the game when there are still XB1 versions that are BC with the new hardware. For most games, the power difference would require nothing more than a patch, not a complete from a ground up re-release which are usually spurned  unless they expect big sales. Xbox One's hand curated BC announcements did well to encourage the resale of old 360 games, I think that is much more a possibility going forward.

Remake/Remaster culture heavily benefited from the loss of full BC consoles in the last 2 gens. Without it I think their existence is questionable.

Skyrim just simply CANNOT make a PS5 version when the PS4 version will work perfectly fine. They would have to be adding some actual new content and or features to make that worthy and I question if even that could appeal to the audience to get them to buy it a 3rd time when they already have reasonably compatible version.

I stated in a previous thread that I too think the era of Remasters is almost about over because most of the biggest have been remade already in last 10 years, most anyway and the era of the Pro Systems means games are patched for upgrades all the time.

You certainly didn't read the interview them. Simply putting a good SSD and making the system based on it have made it possible to travel faster in game (like Infamous and SM had traverse speed limited due to rendering) and of course the fast travel became real fast travel. It certainly will also make reload/retry much faster. He also talked about loading screens being a thing of the past.

Turning rumble off and turning the controller light dimmer probably help somewhat, but I tend to have gaming sessions so long that even those are not enough. My solution? An extra controller. It's so convenient, I always have a fully charged controller at the ready when the other one dies out. If you don't wanna pony up for another controller(which may be used in local co-op as well), just get a long ass charging cable so you can charge while playing.

Haptic feedback? Nah, I'm good.

Don't drink the Kool-Aid, you will be disappointed.

They couldn't even keep dynamic weather in GT Sport!

Not saying you are wrong but I have a hard time believing that Cerny of all ppl made a mistake here, especially in what is most likely a pretty controller interview.

That said, Digital Foundry have claimed that the hardware details Sony have announced actually does support ray tracing, and that Nvidia have been able to give older graphic cards through software. So Sony's solution could be software based though an employee at Naughty Dog seemed to suggest that it is actually hardware based.

Without full specs nor a price, I don't see how it 'isn't looking too hot'. The piece of info that does exist seems to have most people speaking highly of it, however. That's always a good thing!