Will the PS5 be the next Wii?

[bunchanumbers]

JustBeingReal said:

bunchanumbers said:

MS is working on prediction technology that is supposed to reduce latency to almost zero. When this happens I wouldn't be surprised if they trot out their Rio service. Sony would be wise to copy this technology from MS.

As for not being able to access internet, if your home internet goes down, you will be just as easily be able to pull out your phone or tablet and keep gaming as though you were never disconnected. There will be tons of ways to keep playing without missing a beat. You'll be able to play your full console games on your way to work, at work, on your way home from work, and at home. It will be too convenient to pass up for most consumers.

As for the physical media always being around and the like, even that is going away. People don't care as much for collecting DVDs or Blurays when they can just as easily fire up Netflix and stream all their shows and not feel like they were ripped off at all. Same thing applies here. Hundreds of games at your disposal and it only costs you a monthly fee? And you can take your games everywhere with you? It will happen. I'm predicting next gen. Some are predicting the generation after, but its going to happen. I hate to say it but you should brace yourself for it.

I'm well aware of Deloreon, that's what it's called and it's essentially a predictive text style, guessing algorythm for a player's actions, it doesn't reduce latency, it attempts to guess your actions, based on past choices you've made, as with predictive text it faulters very often and can never be perfect, because people are inherently unpredictable.

Nope, we're not talking about phones here, we're talking about the platform, this is about gaming on one device, you bought into PS5, you're a kid you don't have anything other than the PS5 your parents bought you, your internet goes down, you don't have access to your games and thus you're annoyed and hating the company for making the choice to design their system around an inherently unreliable design.

Keeping a physical device, that provides for your processing needs just makes sense, the future is going to be about having more options, it always has been, to limit someone to not being able to play their games when the internet goes down is just plain stupid.

As for the last point, it's just plain wrong, just like the whole point I made about going only streaming based, removing physical media, removes a large portion of the market's ability to collect physical discs, collectable boxsets, collectable editions of their media.

Regardless of what you and others may think people do care as much about collecting discs, I'm one of them and I know loads of people that still care. Sales of such things are still high.

 

Brace yourself for options, there will always be a market for physical media, it's been that way ever since vinyl discs were 1st released, as with the limitations of the internet, people like having that reliable disc, ownership of the content and not being able to access your content because your internet is down is just plain wrong.

Imagine you've bought into this network based future, you turn on your phone, you can't get a signal because the network is down and your internet at home isn't working (which happens), that means you have access to none of the content, it may not happen very often, but any time that happens, you're basically paying for nothing and you decided you wanted that stupid future.

Sony knows this, which is exactly why their next console and the one after that, the one after that and so on will have a physical processor and everything else needed to host your game locally and as long as physical media on a disc continues to sell they'll continue to keep selling theirs and external publisher's games on them, because it's about catering to the market, giving options, not limiting your customers.

More than likely, that won't happen. A physical console option might just be the PS4 as the last physical console they make. Sony doesn't want to waste billions on more hardware that will be obsolete within a year. All that money is wasted. As a digital console, they won't be held back by hardware limitations anymore. We won't have to worry about fps and resolution being limited by hardware anymore. It will be the games the developers want to make without trying to cram it into a obsolete box. Developers, Publishers, and Sony wants this.

Its going to happen sooner or later, so you might as well as accept it. Attachment to physical media is less of an issue every day. MS messed up in that they released a physical console. If they didn't and launched Rio from the start it would probably be a different story. They also wouldn't have less power than the PS4.