| Captain_Tom said: -PS4 has no trouble with 1080p when utilized properly. The sad truth is some developers are lazy, and/or aim for stupid goals. (This is a debate in itself). -8x a 7870 would be roughly equal to two 295X2's. One 295X2 easily runs any game out now in 4K so I find it hard to beleive that something twice as strong as that would have much trouble even with the more demanding games of the future. I didn't say it would max out every game, but high-Ultra settings is almost gaurunteed given what we know (Which is all we can speculate on now anyways). -There may be some upscaling, but it will be from 1800p if anything. -People forget that 8GB of RAM is far more than enough now. 16GB should still be plenty for the future, and HBM is more expensive than GDDR5. But who knows what the future will hold. -I don't see the point in 16 cores. Games are just now starting to use 6-8 cores and quad cores are still 90% the standard. Fewer, faster cores would be easier to program and allow for higher framerates. People forget that the CPU's in todays consoles are not AT ALL weak, but they are not fast enough to easily do 60 FPS. They can handle a lot of data at one, but they cannot move it very fastly. |
Developers will still be the same next gen. I wouldn't call them lazy, but pre occupied with effects, screenshots and multiplatform engines. And sure the early games this gen should run fine in 4K, but will the optimized games at the end of this gen + another lick of new paint still manage that. Real time ray tracing is still a goal to be achieved, that definitely won't be running in 4K on next consoles.
I wouldn't call 32GB unlikely. a 4K OS, handling 4K video, likely more snap mode, possibly dvr functionality, picture in picture options will definitely grow in footprint again. 4x the pixels, also means 4x the memory needed for all effects, screenbuffers, textures. Plus a bit of extra memory can help with streaming data. 32GB ram with cheap HDD seems more likely to me than 16GB with an SSD drive.
Faster CPUs would be nice, yet why exactly did they go with 8 1.6ghz cores this gen instead of a 3.2ghz quad core? Maybe because of heat, power consumption, price? If so, wouldn't that be the same next gen, 16 slower cores vs 8 fast cores?
Anyway I hope you're right, would love some 4K console gaming next gen.
