VAMatt on 06 December 2016
| KBG29 said: Interesting. I am still more than likely going to get the scorpio to support higher end consoles, but I was hoping they would continue with the more premium marketing. My dream is a future where we have high end consoles that can compete with or beat the best single GPU PC's on the market. A $999.99 console with a high end APU sporting a higher end CPU/GPU combo would be ideal. The fact that we have no option in the high end gaming market than PC and Windows is what I have been fighting all along. There should be no issue for Sony or Microsoft building $1000 high end consoles that only end up with maybe 5 million users. As long as they still offer $200 variations with lesser CPU/GPU power on the same architecture, then development and scaling will not be an issue. We are never going to have the optimization we saw in the PS2 and before era again. That fact that games come to so many platforms has killed that. We should now have broader platforms with power ranges from cheap to enthusiast. We won't get the same bang for our buck, but we will still have unified platforms with highly optimized OS's and unified online networks. Like I said, I am getting a Scorpik to support higher end consoles and a wider range of console products within a platform. I just hope they don't continue to hang out in this cheaper space, and they do finally give consumers an option outside of windows and pc for high end home computing. |
I don't know that we'll see $999 consoles anytime soon. But, we should be able to see consoles than can compete with $1000 gaming PCs in terms of performance. In the console business, money can be lost on hardware sales, as it is made up on software. Plus, by working with only one or two configurations, leveraging their scale, and leaving out stuff that is not important to gaming, the console companies can get components, and assemble them at a much, much lower price than gaming PC manufacturers. So, I think it is reasonable to assume that we could see a console that performs like a PC that costs twice as much.
