Next gen, quantum leap, whatever you want to call it, that is what consoles have always been about. They release over long periods of time waiting until tech eveloves to the point where the next console delivers something the last could not. The time and power diference required to make that leap is taking longer and longer. 

Yes, I agree that new consoles should release every 4 years, but not every 4 years should equte to a completely new platform. By releasing new tech every 4 years, it allows developers to continue to push the envelope, and it introduces new tech to in house developers. This is good for PC gamers, its good for PlayStation devs, and it's great for consumers that are looking for a higher quality experience. Best of all, it makes sure day one purchasers get to continue to see support for their product for a good chunck of time, if they are that kind of consumer.

By releasing these iteritive steps within a platform, they will be able to keep games up to date with display tech, wireless tech, and the latest non gaming software needs. This will help the industry continue to grow, and lead to bigger jumps in terms of player experince when the industry and tech are ready to move to a new format of game development, including new rendering tech, new physics tech, new lighting tech, new control inputs, and much more.

If only a open platform existed that wasn't owned by a single corporatition. Where gamers could happily play together no matter what platform they chose. Desktop, laptop, "TvBox", or even mobile. Where games weren't hold hostage, but where everyone could enjoy them. Where developers weren't hold back by ancient technology. Where talented developers like Naughty Dog could spend most of their time making the game, rather then squishing the most out of old hardware. Where players would discuss about games and new technology instead of fighting which plastic box is the best.

Hmm I wonder what we should call that platform. I think PC is a good word for it. Personal console. Yeah doesn't sound too bad.

But seriously, it would be the best for gaming if they released a new PS4.5 and a new X1.5 and then slowly dropping support for these current versions. Look at games like GTA 5 and you can clearly see they were made for last-gen especially when looking at things like AI of NPC's.

unlikely. I am in Australia, that system costs about $2500-$3000 Australian depending on size of SSD.

The 2 main problems is this.
#1 Price.
Unless they plan on doing a PS3 and sell a console well over $1000.
#2 TVs range from 1080p, 1440p monitors and 4k. 3k is alienating the market. No one will bother because no one will have a suitable TV. If you have a 4k TV why settle for less? Waste of resources if you ask me.

Well, I expect ~ 15TFLOPS GPU to be quite realistic for PS5 around 2019/20, so that's significant leap. I know people have their doubts, but then again a lot of folks on this very forum didn't believe that something like 7970m (which is downclocked 7870) could be in this gen console only a year before PS4 launched, but that's what, more or less, we got in the end.

But I guess, if this gen has shown us anything, we'll just have to wait and see what kind of GPU is available for around $250-$300 some year and a half before PS5/NextBox.

Sweden, Norway (where I come from) is much the same.

Example from the store where I got my rig;

https://www.komplett.se/k/config.aspx?ConfigSystemId=11004

You can downgrade the CPU from a (frankly overkill) 5960X to a 5930K, remove the keyboard and even take away half the RAM (but 16GB of RAM on a rig running triple SLi is ridiculous) and get cheaper storage (or remove some entirely) but the price would still be in the 65.000SEK class, which is around 8000$ with today's conversion rates.

There is no possible way for me to get a triple Titan X build of any kind for the price of my rig. One of those GPU's alone cost around 1350$ here, so my 4000$ budget would be eaten by graphics cards alone. My budget also holds a 32" 1440p display.

Sometimes, people don't seem to realize how big the price differences are in different parts of the world.

PS: A pint back home usually costs around 11$ and a 20 pack of cigarettes around 12.85$...

It's going to be the option 3 guys. (Play 4K blurays).

Options 1 & 2 in the DF article are mostly clickbait stuff.

I said it could be 500$. And again we are talking about next year

From 1.84TFLOPS to 15TFLOPS lol?

3K is not a thing and the only screens that have used that meaningless term were 2880 x 1620.