Would you buy a 9th or a 9.5th gen console???

[HoloDust]

sergiodaly said:

HoloDust said:
I really doubt any console will be aiming at native 4K, let alone 4k@60fps.

What people tend to conveniently forget is that 720p to 1080p is 2.25x when it comes to pixels, and from 1080p to 4k UHD is 4x.

Unless some miracle happens with fab processes in the near future, I think best we can hope for is another 8-10x performance jump in the next gen, and that will most likely mean enough juice for anamorphic UHD (1920x2160), since IMO, that would make much more sense than 16:9 1440p or 1620p.

Well we have today PC setups that run games almost every game at 4k at 30fps. PC games suffer from the api restraints we all know about. So 4 years from now, it doesn't sound that difficult to do a 600/700 dollars console to run 4k@60fps. A 400 dollars console does sound a lot harder. 
8 times more powerful its more processing power than what that pc has right now. (the one i check and mentioned earlier) 

This is the way I see it - with estimated 8x jump in next gen (to about 15TFLOPS in today's AMD FLOPS), no sane develeoper will spend most of their performance pool to jump to native 4k and render 4x more pixels than in 1080p, if they can spend half of that on anamorphic 4k and spend the rest on better visuals or performance.

People seem to keep forgetting that PS4 to PS3 is some 8x -10x (depending on who you ask), and jump was only 2.25x in resolution, unlike 4x that is needed for native 4k...believing that devs would sacrifice visual quality for resolution in future with performance jump of similar 8x-10x is a bit...naive, to say at least.