Welp, So Much For That Generationless Market

[Soundwave]

Azuren said:

Soundwave said:

Sony can choose to define it however they want, but its clear we are in a generational-less market now.

There is not supposed to be a new model of hardware every 3 years with significantly more power. That's not a traditional video game cycle, if that is the new normal (and MS pushes it even further with upgradable hardware on top of that) ... we are definitely in a new era that's more akin to PC gaming.

Until the next generation shows up.

And what if Sony makes PS4 Ultra Pro with 10 TFLOP? 

The other issue here is with 3 year cycles there is not going to be some radically massive leap in processor technology available to these companies ... "PS5" will likely be a 3-4x leap over what the Pro is, that's not going to feel like some "new generation". There's only a finite amount of improvement AMD or Nvidia can give any of these companies in that small of a period of time. 

It's like going to be like smartphones, I bet a lot of people will even skip the PS5 now and wait for PS5 Pro, just like many people are going to skip the iPhone 7 for the 7S or even the iPhone 8. 

The days of going from a PS2 to PS3 or PS1 to PS2 and going "holy shit! this is a huge generation leap" are likely dead and gone.