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MortienGerrux on 27 March 2016
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KBG29 said:

My guess is that the next generation of consoles will be in late 2018 or early 2019 when Nvidia Volta/Next-Gen AMD arhictecture releases.

The problem with that is those new chips are not a significant enough upgrade to justify a whole new generation of consoles. They don't even equate to half the jump we saw between PS3 and PS4. The same can be said about the CPU and the RAM as well, a true next gen console needs to have at least 128GB of RAM to see the same leap we have seen in every PS generation so far. Additionally SSD tech is still not cheap enough to put in a console, and that is going to be a good part of the baseline for and new generation console, because it is going to require that type of read write speeds as a standard to achive truly next level games on both VR an traditional gaming. 

I appreciate your dedication, but please don't talk about hardware if you don't know a lot about it.

We don't need 128GB of ram to get a new generation of consoles. In February 2013 when the PS4 was announced the best video card was the GTX 680.

In Juni 2015 we got the GTX 980Ti which is 2-2.5x more powerful then the GTX 680. Hardware is advancing faster then ever.

Consoles arn't going anywhere, but the traditional console business model is dead. Devices like the Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV Box, and Roku are all gaming platforms as well. PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo are all targeting the same market as these devices. They are also targeting the Cable and Satellite box industry as well. All of these devices are fighting for that position under the TV, and that is a place that PC towers are never going to hold a large market.

I don't know, even the hardware charts here on VGChartz say console sales have dropped 250% since 2009.

Why should people get a console when in 2-3 years they can have the same power as the PS4 in a tablet? A few years later even in a smartphone? All they need to do is port games over to Android or Ios. I'm already astonished why games like Fifa 16 aren't on smartphones and tablets yet. Connect the smartphone/tablet to the TV and a bluetooth controller and you have a portable console.

The Nvidia Tegra X1 mobile chip, has 1 Teraflops of processing power, the XB1 has 1.31 Teraflops and the PS4 has 1.84 Teraflops. So we have a 10 watt mobile chip that's nearly as powerful as the Xbox One.