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Barkley on 08 March 2017
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KBG29 said:
Barkley said:

The big increase next-gen is going to come from the CPU imo, GPU I only expect about 12TF for PS5 atm, and the ram increase is certainly not going to be equivelent to the past, 32gb tops imo.

This may end up happening, but I just don't think doing a half generational update and calling it PS5 is a wise decision. People have been conditioned to expect a certain level of performance increase from numbered PlayStations, and I think doing a PS5  that is only half the leap we have seen in the past could do major damage to the PlayStation brand. To me, it would be much wiser to call it a PS4 Premium, and not try to build hype around something that can not live up to that hype.

Keeping the ps4 name means the other PS4 models would need to still be supported. If you dubbed the new device "PS4 Premium" when it has a different CPU and GPU... 

Pro uses the same GPU (just has the chipset mirrored and runs at a higher clock), it uses the same CPU just overclocked, and it still has 8gb GDDR5 (just with higher memory bandwidth and an extra gig of DDR3 for the OS). Pro IS a PS4.

Changes beyond what the Pro does makes for an entirely new machine, not a ps4, which would just make things a massive pain in the ass.