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Soundwave on 08 September 2016
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Azuren said:
Soundwave said:

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. 

And what if gravity were to suddenly stop working? It'd be mass chaos as everything on earth is suddenly flung into the black abyss of space.

 

But don't worry, it won't happen. Just like "generationless" won't happen, because even if what people perceive as generationless happens, guess what?

 

It's just shorter generations. Because that's how technology is released.

It's already happened, the genie is already out of the bottle. 

The only way to keep the traditional console cycle would've been for Sony to stick to their guns and not release a PS4 Pro period. One PS4 for 5-6 years, no if,s ands, or buts, now that Sony caved and we know MS wants to go in that direction ... it's likely caused a domino effect that won't be stopped because the two will be constantly trying to one up each other. 

The systems are basically just PCs in a box anyway now, the days of consoles being something exotic and different are over too, guess they might as well become PC like in their sales structure too. You can't even pop a game in without having to install some damn 1929282 GB patch. 

Being able to say "yeah but it's still a Playstation .... FOUR!" is just semantics at this point. They've destroyed the old model. The whole "forwards compatibility!" thing is straight outta the PC side too. 

For developers it's basically the PC too ... now you don't have one version of any game actually made specifically for one hardware, they have to build it with like three different settings even, so when PS5 or whatever Sony wants to call it comes out, likely developers will be asked by publishers to also continue making the same game but on the PS4 Pro spec, because they don't want to lose that customer base.