Will the PS5 be the next Wii?

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JustBeingReal said:

bunchanumbers said:
No. Nothing will be like the Wii. It was a cultural phenomenon. There are already too many other companies making VR headsets. The only one that was really out with motion controls when it launched was Wii. Plus they had the games for it at launch.

I think psNow will be PS5 in the future. Easy access and Sony finally gets full control of all aspects of the system, because its streaming.

A platform going completely streaming based is reliant on the internet being 100% reliable, but that's never going to happen until each household has a system that can't malfunction.

There will always be physical hardware, that handles the local processing of games. No doubt the cloud will be a feature of 9th gen and consoles that come out beyond that, but it will never take over while the internet lacks reliability. There's also the matter of costs, if people aren't willing to pay for a regular subscription model, on top of PS Plus or XBL then there's very little reason to go all out on the streaming side of the platform.

Going for the full streaming based model is pointless when developers can already make huge worlds on the current generation of consoles and PC. We have games like No Man's Sky and WiLD coming out this year, one offers an environment the size of Europe, the other procedurally generates an ever expanding galaxy worth of planets to explore, the next generation of consoles will be able to take that even further, hell this generation will as well, because over time developers will optimize their code on current systems to get more out of them, the same things will happen next gen, basically pushing games several orders of maginitude further than what we have this generation.

 

Cloud based consoles would also have issues of latency for the user, so any kind of seamless experience won't compete with what will be possible on local hardware.

But there is a big reason for Sony going streaming on PS5. Developers, publishers, and Sony will have full control of the games. There will be no second hand sales and everything will be profit for publishers. I'm thinking that the pure profit margins and low cost of 'hardware' will be the reason why Sony will do this. Their hardware will be a access box that costs less than a Vita TV and will feature easy access features like being able to play on mobile, tablets, and smart TVs. There will be too many convenience features to pass up for most consumers.

Will there be less sales from developing countries and countries with poor internet? Probably. But I think that it will be worth it in the end because they will have tons of people who will be interested in it.