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potato_hamster on 02 October 2017
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KBG29 said:
That is tough to see. As Nuvendilis saying, the impact of tech over time is getting smaller. A PS5 in 2019 is going to be very unimpressive, and very likely turn consumers off. We are talking a turn around quicker than PS3 to PS4, and people are expecting a $399.99 console. Add together the slowdown in tech development, the necissary leap required to give it next gen wow, inflation, and PS5 would be significantly less impressive than PS4.

I just can not see another generation of consoles limited to HDD, and SSD won't be cheap enough until 2020 at the earliest, thus leaving a 2019 next gen in a really weird position. I think a much better play would be to release an optional PS4 Premium in 2019, and then release a true next gen PS5 in 2021 or 2022.

PS4's chip set at 7nm with a few more modernizations like the Pro saw, will deliver 4K and 60fps on many titles. Give it 16GB of RAM, and it will be a perfect last push for PS4. Then let PS5 be the 3nm 20+ TFLOP, 128GB of RAM, SSD based storage beast of a machine it needs to be, delivering an unquestionable leap over PS4, PS4 Pro, and PS4 Premium for a true next gen expereince. This will allow it to maintain 4K/60fps while delivering a massive leap in every graphical department that will be evident to all.

Regaurdless, PS5 has to be backwards compatible with PS4 software. We will be closing in on 50% digital or surpassing 50% digital sales depending on when PS5 is launched. With iOS and Android kind of setting the standard, people expect all of their digital content to continue to work on their new devices.

A "PS4 premium" serves no purpose. No one is going to put a premium when a PS5 that blows it out of the water is no more than a year or two away. Just look at PS4 Pro sales. It's not exactly leading a boom in PS4 sales, at only 1 in 5 PS4s sold, is it? Face it. There just isn't a demand for these higher end game consoles that you like to pretend there is, and there's no reason to suspect that such a console would extend the shelf life of the PS4.