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

[Eddie_Raja]

HoloDust said:

Eddie_Raja said:

4K will be the same standard 1080p is today in 3 years, just wait.  Hell the $250 R9 290 can already do 4K alright at 30 FPS, and its replacement is supposed to be 70% stronger THIS YEAR.

@4K both 290X and 980 can barely keep 30fps in Crysis 3 on High, FC4 or DA:I on Ultra...4K will be PC standard, that's for sure, for $400 console I honestly doubt it, that would be he biggest jump between 2 generations in pixel count there ever was, which would require massive GPU jump as well...and I don't see GPUs advancing as much as they were before.

30 FPS on high is good enough imo considering you chose one of the hardest to run games of all time.  You are ignoring the fact that games like BF4 and DA:I run fine at 30 FPS and mostly Ultra.  So consider this:

-AMD's next-gen GPU's are looking to be 70% stronger than their predecessors while still being on 28nm.  

-AMD's follow-up in 2016 will be on 14nm and have 2nd gen HBM delivering 1 TB/s of bandwidth whice is tripple what the best GPU's deliver now.  We have been stuck on 28nm for over 3 years now.  When AMD transitioned from 40nm to 28nm performance doubled!  The same will happen from 28 to 14 (If not more).

So what I am saying is that within 1.5 years we will have GPU's 3x stronger than what we have now.  The PS5 will likely launch in 2018/19 so that gives Sony another couple generations of graphics advancements to work with.  It may even be on 10nm by then.  That will easily be enough to get an 8-10x perfromance boost just like the PS3 to PS4, and with 10x the performance you can easily run 4x the resolution with more eye candy turned on.