firebush03 said:
Who’s to say they need to make it more powerful than PS5? I’d argue that Sony should be focused on keeping the price down. PS6 will not hit 100mil if it prices out consumers. They could simply make a handheld that is exactly as power as PS5 but with the assistance of technological advancements from over the past 5y to keep costs down at a similar output. They could just pull what they did with PS5 games at the start of the gen, engaging in some fine tuning so as to allow game to be playable on weaker (PS4) hardware. That said, if PS6 is backwards compatible AND there exists a home console variant alongside a handheld capable of playing PS5 games, then PS5 has effectively been replaced. I don’t see there existing a market for PS5, and I don’t think Sony wants there to be a market, following Sony’s track-record of curtailing past gen hardware sales following the controversy of PS2-PS3. |
I just can't imagine that Sony would release a piece of hardware that is technically weaker than PS5 or PS5 Pro and call it a PS6 as they've never done anything like that before. You mention the numbers sold but it's not all about numbers. The business is more profitable now than it ever was during the PS4 days and they did that without PS5 selling better than PS4. So, they know they can still make record profits without record breaking hardware numbers and that's why people shouldn't fixate on hardware sales too much.
The PS4 had one huge bottleneck and that was it's CPU and because it was such a weak point of the console, it meant it would've been impossible to coexist with it's successor. PS5 has no major bottleneck so Sony has no need to replace it and will have it co-exist with PS6 but have all the games target 30fps instead.
