No PS5 Console?

[Landguy]

BeElite said:

Landguy said:
There might be a PS5, but it will be a niche product for the hardcore gamers. It will be the same sized group that buy high end PC's for gaming. A vocal group, but not very big. If there was a PS5, it would be expensive and sell in the 15 million range at best.

15 million might sound bad, but if they make it like the PS4, with basically off the shelf parts. That would keep the development cost very low. If you can sell 15 million of a low development cost item, there is good money to be made. It would still continue the branding and cultural influence even with that few sales. It would actually help the streaming service...

We are a long way of from the scenerio, easily a decade in not two.

Look at TV, they are showing oled 4ks, and 4k 5k even 8ks sets..... yet the sports broadcast in watching is 1080i.... not even 108op

PSNow wil be at the forfron of tech, but ill take many many years before m,ajority of the world catchs up to it.

I am not implying that the PSnow service iwill be the answer or the only answer anyway.  My thoughts head more to the eventual scenario where most people have powerful enough devices in their home that we don't really need a stand alone gaming system.  I have run a few different threads over the last few months regarding my theory.  Bottom line thought is that there could be a similar program to steam that is downloaded to a tablet or pc that runs the PS or Xbox  or Nintendo games.  Most of the latest tablets have the ability to stream their screens to televisions.  Just add the bluetooth controller of your choice and you have a gaming console.  Can this be done today?  Yes, but it would have to be PS360 games.  But 4-6 years from now it will be easy enough to play the PS4/XB1 games in that scenario.  The common response to my theory is that people will want more power and better games.  To that, I agree.  Thus that small percentage that "needs" the more powerful systems, they will buy full PCs or even the possible PS5. 

Most of the "average" game players are actually happy with the capabilities of the PS360.  A few years from now, they will be happy with the power of the PS4/XB1.  So, there won't be much need for the majority of the public to have bleeding edge gaming capability.