Lifetime sales predictions for current consoles?

[Bofferbrauer2]

Pajderman said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

By 2027 the PS5 is at risk of being just as fast as an AMD APU (and I don't mean the Strix Halo which should come late this year/early next year and already beat the PS5), meaning 720p-1080p low would be standard PS5 settings by then. On a big TV that lack of visual fidelity will be absolutely visible.

Switch can get away with those things due to being a handheld system (and even then it has it's limits, Mortal Kombat 1, anyone?), but a console whose entire premise is it's graphical prowess? I seriously doubt that.

I think diminishing returns on that power increase will make it a harder sell. In the demo of PS5 pro it was very hard to see any difference. They will need to use benchmarks or something other than just show the visuals. 

It was hard to see because many things are holding the PS5 Pro back:

1. Only a GPU upgrade, the Zen 2 CPU is pretty slow by today's standards. The small clock speed increase doesn't do much to address any CPU limitations, especially in performance mode.
2. RAM still only 16GB, which is pretty small. It already wasn't big when the PS5 came out, but the need for RAM and VRAM went up sharply since then. Which means smaller, more compressed (and thus less detailed) textures and less details overall. It being clocked faster doesn't help in that regard.
3. The overall performance increase is pretty small with just 45%. The PS4 Pro managed almost double that over the PS4.
4. Old games, many even PS4 being originally PS4 titles. There wasn't much to improve in those titles to begin with.
5. And of course, spotty YouTube compression didn't help when it came to noticing the difference.

Had Sony chosen to increase the RAM to 24 or even 32GB and updated the CPU to at least Zen 3 with a slightly smaller GPU, I'm sure it would look markedly better for the same price.