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Cerebralbore101 on 26 February 2026
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Davy said:
curl-6 said:

With the exception of Gen 7 (and maybe 1/2) there's never really been room on the market for three console platforms.

In the 3rd gen NES dominated but everything else struggled, in Gen 4 SNES/Megadrive did well but Turbografx-16 fell by the wayside, in Gen 5 PS1/N64 sold well while Saturn and the rest crashed and burned, in Gen 6 nothing outside PS2 did well, in Gen 8 Wii U failed, and this gen Xbox Series fell off.

The most successful 1-2 systems inevitably hoover up the vast majority of consumers leaving the third wheel with little but scraps.

We have 3 systems actually, PC gaming is big now and probably it is the future since consoles start to becoming too expensive and lose the advantage they had as a cheap gaming solution. I predict a 30-40 teraflop PS6 with 32 GB memory will be around 800$

Ram is stupidly expensive right now for a PC. Maybe console prices will rise to catchup with RAM prices soon. But for now PC gaming has a big pricing problem. Also part of the reason why the AI bubble/boom is happening is because all these companies started making RAM and GPUs for the PC market. But then everybody got their PCs built and decided not to upgrade for a few years. So these RAM and GPU makers all had this extra inventory to sell to AI companies. And they didn't increase production until recently. So RAM/GPUs got overproduced then underproduced as a result and now AI is making it all crazy expensive.