Prediction - PS6 will not be designed to replace the PS5.

[Norion]

Hardstuck-Platinum said:

Norion said:

A lot of the posts in this thread are not taking into account the massive elephant in the room that being the potential impact of AI in the coming years. With Genie 3 being a huge leap over Genie 2 with just an 8 month gap the video game industry could change a lot soon depending on how much further that sort of tech improves over the next 5-10 years. Hardware that isn't AI capable enough could become obsolete fast.

Handhelds are so disadvantaged over dedicated home consoles that it doesn't matter what tech is in it, for 500$ or less the maximum they could achieve is PS5 performance. Look at Switch 2, it's completely limited to 30fps in third party titles despite launching 5 years after PS5/XBSS/X. There isn't going to be any magical AI tech that will allow a handheld to surpass the PS5 in a price point that competes with Switch 2. That's OK though, as they only need to achieve PS5 performance for it to be a viable platform. 

I'm referring to this sort of thing. Depending on how much further this improves in the coming years the speculation going on in this thread could potentially become outdated fast. We could start to see a shift from traditional gaming to world models basically.