Global Hardware 15 December 2018

[EricHiggin]

drinkandswim said:

EricHiggin said:

Sure I could, but a world where anyone can call anything whatever they want, and they actually do, is a world of complete nonsense and chaos. My point was that it's not as simple as one item that makes a device what is it. Just because I used performance as an example in my prior post, doesn't mean it's the only factor. Obviously if the gaming device doesn't have a screen, or battery, it's pretty tough to consider it a handheld or hybrid, which would leave it being console or PC. Technicalities like a small controller screen or mobo bat don't count. Considering a console is an internally fixed device (minus the mass storage) and PC is not, you can define them fairly easily and it simply makes things much easier this way.

I can actually see next gen going the route of not having fixed internals. Then what are we going to call them PC’s or Consoles? I think i considered them separate because PC’s had multifunctions and consoles were only for gaming, but that isnt even the case anymore. I can see the lines getting more blurry.

If next gen consoles can't swap out all of the same parts a PC can, that would still differentiate them. It may not be much, but it would still make them different. Maybe a replaceable GPU in some form factor, or an add on, I could potentially see that, and that would be it, but I think that's unlikely considering the upgraded consoles. It's just easier for everyone and cost wise it's probably not all that much different either after a couple of years.