I'm usually very curious about how gaming hardware and technology will evolve. I don't just mean graphical outputs, I mean what new ways of playing games will there be, what game creating software will come out, and what new special features will game systems have?

Maybe by then we'll have consoles that also double as personal video recorders, assuming PVRs are still in widespread use. Or maybe we'll have further developments in different visual media formats, like holography, or something entirely new. For me it's difficult to properly estimate how gaming hardware will change by that time, so how do you think it will change in the 2020s?

With the current Flops obsession it will certainly be Floppier than ever.

I just hope the market is big enough to sustain multiple successful console still

I've never fully understood what a flop is. What's it a measurment of?

Floating point operations, it is a measure of how many mathematical operations a computing system can perform in a given time frame.

FLOPS stands for FLoating-point Operations Per Second.

I don't recall ever seeing that. Do you know of examples?

Floating point refers to the position of the decimal point in a real number, means that the computer in question can move that decimal point as needed an thus perform basic calculations (+), (-), (*), (/) using real numbers.

It measures how fast a computer is, the higher the FLOPS, the more calcultions can be done in say, a second. Take a GPU for example, a GPU with higher FLOPS can draw more complicated geometries in a given time, than a slower GPU with less FLOPS.

In fact, I would think that saying "powerful" to refer to computer chips is kind of a misnomer, a more accurate term would be "fast", as in the PS4 GPU is faster than the Xbox One's.

More like... 2300.

Even with a technological singularity happening in the next decades, i doubt a StarTrek Holodeck is possible prior the end of the 21st century.

I don't think he meant on that level of technology.