| Kyuu said: I think Sony will either go hybrid with the PS6, or exit consoles to start a new ecosystem. That sounds like the natural evolution of gaming in my view. Nintendo was kinda forced to go there a bit early due to Wii U's failure. Sony may join them regardless of PS5's sales, since PS6 won't possibly offer a significant graphics advantage. Traditional home consoles are destined to become unnecessary. Sony might merge VR with PS6 but that would be riskier than the hybrid route which the Switch is already hinting to be profitable. For one thing, generational jumps will be even less significant from here on out, because we're sort of approaching photo-realism in some genres. When the PS5 generation ends, you'll need a lot more than a 10x specs jump for meaningful results like unprecedented effects and complex world structures. And even bigger problem is costs.. Taking full advantage of PS6's theoretical performance will likely demand far greater resources and efforts than ever before, and I don't think this will be financially viable to any company. Soon enough, the actual graphics difference between hybrids and home consoles is going to be as superficial -in the eyes of most gamers- as the one between consoles and PC. High-end PCs billion TFLOPS is rarely exploited in meaningful ways outside framerate/resolution, at least to us console loving peasants. Home consoles too will at one point stop being fully optimized as hybrids replace them to become the lead platforms for major developers. The home console userbase will one day migrate to hybrids and PCs which both will see a very significant growth in install base. Perhaps this growth -paired with the enormous specs gap between PC and hybrids- might encourage a few crazy-but-passionate studios to take risks and develop truly mindblowing PC games that live up to the specs on paper! |
PC will always be the last choice for mainstream, because There is no PC as one platform. PC consist of many platform and company (OS, CPU, GPU, Memory, Mother board, Cassing, Controler) are seperate entity. There is no uniformity and how they operate is not on one purpose, that make is hard for mainstream especially casual to pick and buy a pc. Unlike console that made buy one company and made purposely only for gaming.








