redkong said:
Soundwave said:
PS6 generation is going to blow chunks, you can already see it coming.
The "Portable PS6" that they're going to push is actually going to be in raw power considerably less performance than even a base PS5, so for 2027/2028, it's going to be below 2020 home console performance. But enough people are going to buy that model that it's going to force devs to have to support that with their base line spec, so even though Sony will claim they don't mandate it, devs will essentially be forced to support it because no one can afford not to.Â
Not that devs even care by that point as most of them cannot afford another generational leap in visuals anyway.
You're just going to have a "cross-gen" period for basically the entire generation next time out. Generational leaps are going to turn into really underwhelming things where most games are going to be cross-gen even late into a console's generation.
This is also even happening in the high end PC market which is cratering after the crypto and COVID lockdown booms of the first half of this decade, now people are tuning out on high end hardware. Nvidia from the sounds of it are being forced to price cut the 50 series because no one's buying them ... not that they even care since PC GPUs are a tiny part of their overall business now (hello AI servers!).Â
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Ray tracing and FSR4 will make things much easier for developers. PS6 is 2-3 years away.
It would have been amazing if Nintendo surprised us and actually went with 5nm node they would have really future proofed this thing since it does have a huge advantage with DLSS till PS6 comes out.
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Next-gen is basically already hog tied to a sub base PS5 spec because Sony isn't happy with non-growth in the Playstation market and need to get in on the hybrid train.
If it's 3 years from now, that's even worse. Nintendo can easily make a Switch 2 Pro to counter at 4nm/5nm.
At this rate, Sony's management will likely decide to make more games on XBox and Switch 2 as well, lol, that's going to be a whole other trend, virtually no games built for any singular hardware anymore and everything but Nintendo games available on every system after some exclusivity period.
