8th Generation: Predict specs

[Groucho]

jetrii said:

Groucho said:
I think you are missing the upcoming nanotech wall for tech advancement. All three console makers will want to release a console before those problems get solved, let alone before they are affordably solved.

That does not make any sense at all. Could you restate that?

 

I think you're overestimating hardware advancement, based upon history, and not looking forward at the smaller processes necessary to reduce heat/increase clock (as you suggest) for cheap console hardware.  As the process size gets smaller, electron loss gets much worse -- resulting in a lot more heat generated.  Unless diamond wafers become the Next Big Thing, or someone cooks up a cheap technique to fabricate chips smaller than 22nm (or even 32nm), the specs you listed are going to be top-of-the-line for several years, at best, and just not feasible for consoles, from a financial standpoint.