ManUtdFan on 11 September 2016
| Shiken said: What will happen is that the next console will phase out the original PS4, but all games will be playable on the PS4 Pro and the PS5. Then three years later PS4 Pro will be phased out, and all games will be played on the PS6 and PS5. This cycle will continue and I imagine they will be using the same architecture for each new console, so BC will be a thing. We will see half gen leaps from now on from Sony and MS. This will allow people to either save money and skip a console while still being able to play all new games or keep up with the latest versions for top performance. I believe this is what MS means by no more "generations" and Sony seems to be on the same page. No telling what Nintendo will do. We need to know what the NX is first, but I could see them doing the same thing to keep BC simple. Hard to tell what they are thinking at this point though. |
This sounds exactly right. I thought Microsoft would totally try and usurp sony with scorpio in the power stakes. But profit margins are never huge in console hardware, so it's more likely they will try and maximize profitability off it, given that in 3-4 years time there will likely be another successor.
