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Conina on 16 September 2016
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LurkerJ said:

Echoing what I said in another lockedd thread, by the time the Scorpio releases, the Pro will be even cheaper, and a year later, the Pro 2 will replace the original Pro as the 399$ console.

SONY has the edge this generation and they will NOT benefit from resetting the generation cycle to zero by releasing the PS5, so they will stretch it as long as they can, it's almost too convenient that MS is following suit willingly. (and Nintendo is paving their own separate lane at this point).

It's pretty clear where console manufacturers are heading, how the market responds remains to be seen though.

Yeah, neither the console manufactures nor the software developers want to reset the hardware base to zero every new console generation.

With doubling the performance every 3 years, a strategy like this could work:

So if we get a "PS5" at the end of 2019, most "PS5 games" of the first year and many less demanding "PS5 games" of the following years could also run on a PS4 Pro with reduced settings to smoothen the transition.

Of course they would name future consoles "PS5" and "PS6" (with a PS5 Pro model between them) instead of naming future consoles "PS4 Pro Pro", "PS4 Pro Pro Pro" and "PS4 Pro Pro Pro Pro" to keep it simple... so I'm expecting a name scheme similar to iPhones (5 -> 5S -> 6 -> 6S -> 7 -> 7S...).

When you buy a "PS5 game", you can be sure, that it works on PS5, PS5 Pro, PS6 and PS6 Pro and there are good chances that it also works on a PS4 Pro, if it ain't pushing the envelope of the newest hardware.

When you buy a "PS6 game", you can be sure, that it works on PS6, PS6 Pro, PS7 and PS7 Pro and there are good chances that it also works on a PS5 Pro, if it ain't pushing the envelope of the newest hardware.