Often people talk about what they'd like to see in a successor to a console, but (wisely) tend to keep it somewhat realistic
Here, let's do that but with a twist. It really just needs to be physically/scientifically possible; financial considerations don't matter. It may be something that would bankrupt the company or would not sell well in the market. Just forget about that for a second and think about your ideal successor
For me, i'd make the PS5 a PSVita2. Explanation ahead
It'd be called a PS5 for marketing reasons, but It'd not be more powerful than the PS4. In fact, it could even be slightly weaker than the PS4. The box would come with two devices; one is a handheld, the other is a PSTV-style box. The hardware in both is identical and they run the same games. The box is for when you want to play on a bigger screen, handheld for portable gaming.
2 reasons for me wanting this:
a) The obvious convenience of freely switching between home console/living room style gaming and portable gaming while using the same system and playing the same games.
b) Slowing down hardware jumps. Advanced graphics are pretty. I like them. But they've been too costly for this industry and the cost of high production values in modern games has killed too much stuff, be it studios or IPs, because even selling millions ends up not being enough. We need to bring the costs down, and instead of living in a rich&poor dichotomy (lavish AAA on one end, cheap indies on the other), we'd try to go back to the PS1-PS2 era. I'm not much of a fan of Nintendo but I actually think they got it right with the Wii and the Wii U as far as hardware is concerned. That's the kind of hardware jump i want to see. Nothing big. keep those AAA budgets under control.
How about you?
