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PS4 had an excellent start, but we need to know a longer term trend to tell. Power whores say 8th gen consoles are too underpowered to be able to enjoy a long life, but PS2 was even more underpowered if we accept this stretched argument: my 2nd PC (the first I assembled personally), built buying parts between Nov 2000 and Jan 2001 was mid-low-end with a Duron 650, 128MB RAM and a 32MB GeForce II MX, while PS4 specs compare a lot more favourably with current mid-range PCs, particularly about RAM size and RAM tech. If I'll build my next PC this year I'll play safe equipping it with 16GB, but even so, it would exceed PS4 RAM by 2:1, not 4:1 like my 2001 PC did with PS2 RAM, and for many years I'd use that extra RAM not for games needs, but for other uses like graphics editing and video conversion, excessive multi-tab web browsing and to make up for the larger size of Windows compared to specialised console OS, while most games, typically run on PC with as few other programs open as possible, will just need 8GB machines for a long time, so even ports from PC games shouldn't suffer excessively, except about graphics comparison with high-end PCs, just like it happens every gen. So we can't tell yet anyway, as HW power isn't the sole factor, but the underpowered argument to deny the possibility is invalid IMVHO.



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