| KBG29 said: That wouldn't be bad, but it is still not really worthy of the PS5 branding IMO. I still expect the leaps we have had from generations past, but perhapps that is unrealistic going forward. People want the number of the unit to go up, and they want it in the 5 - 7 year range. If that is what Sony has to do to keep the most people happy, then I am all for that. I just know that it is iterative steps instead of generational steps going forward if we stick with that 5 - 7 year span. IMO, that shift should go from a single console, to the focus being on the OS and a family of products built around it on a scalable hardware architecture. The PS4 OS and tech could scale and last for 10 years until we could get a truly jaw dropping leap in tech, but it appears most people want half step, and then they can complain about how small of a leap it is between PS4 and PS5. Just curious, what kind of specs would you expect from a console in 2024? |
I don't think going from 1.8TF to 16TF is an iterative step. To put things into context, the GPU jump from the PS3 to the PS4 was around 5-6x. 1.8TF-16TF is almost 9x. Secondly, tose jumps become less and less important. That whole diminishing returns thing, but let me try and put this into perspective.
Look at horizon zero dawn for instance; find the best shot of the game in motion you can lay your eyes on. Now remember that thats made on a console with a GPU of 1.8TF. Now if that was made on a 16TF GPU, that doesn't mean that everything is going to become 8 times more. Like the character models for instnace, they may nt get a bump in polygons. As it stands, the bulk of that extra power will be used for nothing more than more pixels, more stability and a few better effects here and there. So we really don't need significantly more power going forward.
As for the last bit, in 2024/2025..... and this is assuming by then we are at a 4nm process. It won't be inconceiveable to have a GPU with around 30-40TF. Memory will probably still not exceed 16GB of HBM2 ram...... mind you not because they can't do it, hell they probably can even do it in 2020 (fun fact, if the PS4 was launched early 2016, they could have made it with 16GB of GDDR5 ram for the same amount of money it cost them to put in 8GB in 2013) but its more like its just not necesaary.
We could also see 2TB/4TB m.2 SSDs.
