Sony: We still believe in console generations

[KBG29]

SvennoJ said:

2020 should hopefully be possible for an SSD based system. Load times are the biggest bottleneck now. Streaming 4K textures from a 5400 rpm drive is just not going to cut it.

Perhaps PS5 can still support PSVR next to offering a higher res PSVR2 with better tracking. Downscaling to PSVR shouldn't be an issue I would think. If Sony keeps the port the same so you can hook up the old camera then all the better. Of course some PSVR2 games themselves might not be compatible with the old move controllers. It will be a difficult transition indeed.

I would by a ps5+psvr2 bundle for 799 in a heart beat, yet that's most likely too high a sticker price for most. In the early days of PC it was quite normal to get a new monitor with a new PC. VR is in those early stages atm. Consoles never had that phase, I'm curious to see how this is going to play out.

Yeah, it just depends on how fast SSD prices drop. I think a 2TB drive will have to be the standard on a console by 2020, and that is still well over $500 by itself.

On VR any way you cut it, the transition won't be easy, but I do like your idea about a PS5 + PSVR2 bundle day one. That is definitly something they will have to consider. It all comes down to how much value people end up seeing in VR by that point. 

I think at the end of the day, people are going to have to throw out their expectation of what a new console generation is. We won't be seeing PS1 to PS2 levels of hardware improvement, and that will really hurt because even if we went PS1 to PS3 powerwise between PS4 & PS5 the difference would not be as big due to diminishing returns.