DonFerrari said:
Landguy said:
fatslob-:O said:
Landguy said:
I agree totally with the bolded. These systems are underpowered. The real problem for both systems longevity is that the tablet/phone market has been doubling or tripling their power every year or less. If these consoles are going to last 7+ years, smartphones will have eclipsed them by then. This generation will be much shorter(4-5 yrs) due to the way under powered systems. Even the PS4 is too weak. What is more than likely to happen is that game designers/publishers will limit their games dramatically in 2-3 years because they won't want to waste resources for just the PC market. 3-4 years from now, there will be a number of tablets with processors and GPU's that rival the XB1/PS4. Where will that leave the consoles? Why buy a console when the same games will be playable from a tablet that you can take anywhere? Sony/M$ didn't build this next gen with future proof in mind at all.
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Tablets won't be matching consoles anytime soon because they have to meet a strict power requirement and much less for a smartphone. This generation is gonna be long because PCs are going to have issues about the latest state of the art technology. Each time that is spent to manufacture smaller transistors gets longer and longer therefore process node transitions are going to get longer and in total the high tech industry won't be brining out more powerful parts anytime soon. BTW the most powerful tablet comes in at around less than 100 gflops!
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What about Surface pro? I am running almost everything I can download off of steam on it. It's a tablet. From Surface pro 1 to Surface Pro 2 there was a significant power increase. The new A7 chip in the Ipad Air is pretty powerful. These are specs for 2013. Next year when those spead double again and the size shrinks again, they will be getting close in basic processing power. The next logical step for these devices is a more robust GPU. Once they go that route, it won't be hard to match the XB1/PS4.
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Good luck playing Nintendo or Sony 1st parties on it though... and this is the main reason I buy console (to play sony games).
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I doubt we will see Sony doing it right away, but maybe at the end of this generation. M$ of course has their own tablet ecosystem to bring their games to. Nintendo will be on them sooner rather than later. They have an extremely weak position outside of game systems. As the handheld and console market changes in the next 3-5 years, they will need to do something new to stay in business.
