Fabrication Process. Not all foundries will be on the same node. Not all nodes will be at their "advertised" geometries either.

There is more to performance than flops.

There will always be latency, the laws of Physics does come into play in that regard.
That is... The greater the distance, the greater the delay.

Not to mention all the hubs, switches, modems, towers and other equipment add their own delay as well.

I admit console gaming is a dinosaur on it's last legs, but I don't see "streaming" as being the thing that kills it. In fact, it could very well transform through innovation as Nintendo has been trying to make happen. In fact, I don't even see how cloud gaming/streaming will even affect the console industry.

I personally think that the console industry is outdated, but oldschoolers from both the industry and the general public are keeping it alive because it's what they're used to.

I think the far bigger threat to the console industry is the stagnation of graphics. There's not much gain in graphics anymore from one generation to the next, so eventually consoles will become irrelevant.

it'll probably happen eventually.

I doubt this.... we know theres a PS5 & XB2.
And Im pretty sure theres gonna be a PS6 & XB3 as well.

Plus some games just arnt streamed well.... Platformers, Fighting games, and to a degree also FPS shooters.
Alot of people like games that fall into these genre's, input lag + network input lag (traveling from your house to their serves and back) is always going to be around.
Faster internet speed wont improve the delay things take to travel forth + back.... and its always going to be much worse than local hardware.

"Ubisoft CEO reiterates what everyone has been saying since the PS3 and Xbox 360 released."

this is why you dont do drugs.

GG Yves Guillemot

stupid remark. he may want to study a thing called "data caps" when they start streaming games, is when i stop gaming with new games.

It's time for us gamers to RISE UP and boycott Ubisoft and Microsoft, they are enemies of gaming. Constantly ranting about streaming, loot boxes and microtransations. VR, AR and streaming is dead and it will stay dead. So we can enjoy real gaming.

What about EA? 

VR is far from being dead, though. And you never played Pavlov VR. 

1 Well in 2009-2010 Microsoft announced that Tomb Raider Anniversary will be the first Retail game that you can buy digitally. We had threads about people will not buy digitally because Small Hard drives, downloading 7-8 GB games takes to long, now we got used to it.

2 Streaming is going to improve and is technically better because you don't have to worry about limitations of hardware and that is a big thing but we will see.

It was not that long ago that cell phone plans had a set number of minutes of phone calls you could make and the number of texts you could send. Hard to predict the state of technology in 10 years.

With Microsoft in particular, if the XB2 is no more successful than the XB1, I could see there being no XB3 and MS instead goes all in on streaming. Sony is more likely to still do a PS6 IMO. Nintendo also is more likely to still be going in the hybrid device direction.