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Johnw1104 on 15 April 2018
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LethalP said:
Johnw1104 said:

With the mid-gen refreshes that "generational leap" is a bit complicated... they'd have to wait a decent while before they could vastly outperform the Xbox 1 X while maintaining affordability.

I imagine the next generation of consoles will not be an enormous upgrade over the Xbox 1 X/PS4 Pro, but will still be substantially better. As they say in the video, the true "generational leap" will be when compared to the original models, and specifically will see a big improvement in the processors and memory.

Also, my lord look at that like/dislike bar on that video... Fanboys can be ridiculous, that was a very level-headed and informative video. Why is everyone so anxious for some miracle box to release so soon anyway? The Pro and Xbox 1 X already offer some very impressive visuals if that matters so much to you.

PS5 games will be made from the ground up for that system, the Pro/X doesn't have that luxury. So even if it's only twice as fast (12 TFLOPS), games will look much better because they don't have to work on the last gen systems.

Look at GoW on base PS4, vs the Pro. They are identical in all ways but resolution yet GoW is one of the best looking games ever made. In an age of 20+ TFLOP SLI PC's. A game optimized to look like that on a 1.8 TFLOP console. So imagine a game that uses 12 TFLOPS to the same degree? That's where the generational leap will come from.

Well that's certainly true about as far back as consoles go... Looking at Mr Gimmick and Little Samson on the Nes or Pitfall 2 on the Atari VCS and comparing them with the early games for those platforms you'd hardly believe they belonged to the same console. Heck, I was shocked recently to see how bad the first Dead Rising game looked, as I remembered it looking amazing as a launch title for the Xbox 360 lol

I suppose the main issue is whether or not Sony would want to cut off such an enormous and dominant base of customers in the near future with such a console. They may be forced to by 2020 depending on what the next Xbox looks like and how far into development it is, but I can't imagine they're eager to leave the PS4 behind.