| daredevil.shark said: Console gaming should never focus on graphics. This is not how console gaming works. Main priority should be decent hardware with great exclusives. Hardware manufacturers should know their limits. No need to chase graphics. |
I agree with you but I think you are getting things mixed up a bit. I don't think consoles "chase" graphics. Since sony got into the business and MS after, their has been a viable tried and true business model that works. With consoles, it is possible to put $500/$600 hardware in a $400 box and because of its closed and standardized nature, its possible to have that $400 box give you the performance of a PC that costs twice as much (in theory at least).
The people chasing graphics are the PC ethusiast, these are the people that seem to think that more pixels and higher framrate is synonymous with a good gaming experience. In truth, if sony or MS believed that were true and the majority of gamers in the world too, they would have made consoles that cost $1000 and we all would have been climbing over ourselves to buy it. Ever wondered why nvidia never comes out and say hey, this is exactly how many GPUs we sell every year. Whatthey will do however is tell you that they have a revenue of the year for about $3Bl. Now lets assume that all that comes from selling CPU gpus (which it doesnt) and the average cost of a GPU is $400 thats a total of 7.5ml gpus sold per year to gamers. These ae very loose numbers cause I am not even taking into account that that number includes Tegra mobile sales, laptop PCs and then actual dsktop GPUs. Nor taking into account the rotational nature of the PC elite upgrade path.
Having said all that, I think that with consoles, what we get is the minum best that can be put into a box at the time of a generational jump while taking the competition into consideration. Think of it this way, in 2019/2020 which is when I expect the next consoles to hit the market, what can a platform hlder put in a box for $400? Its a natural progressing of tech. In 2020, 16GB-32GB of GDDR5/6 ram, 1TB SSD, and a cpu/gpu that is at least 8-10 times more powerful than what you have in the PS4/XB1 now will cost around $4-$500. Thats just how technology works.
