Throw enough money at it and I even expect a phone to be more powerfull.

I agree with the growth part. And it's great to see overall gaming market growing. But according to first found info on internet overall laptop sales are around 170 million which makes gaming laptops with it's 5-10m sales still look pretty niche. As for attached graph with total computer graphics market ($B) - it's pretty bad graph which doesn't really show anything. If we use Nvidia GPUs as an example, in 2014 the top of the line model was GTX980 which launched at $549 MSRP. In 2018 it was RTX 2080 Ti with $1199 MSRP. It's pretty clear why the revenue from GPU sales increased in that time frame. Still, my inital point was that it's great to see such powerful hardware in gaming laptops but what's the point with comparing it to next gen consoles if they don't really compete with each other. It's not like someone who wanted to buy a console to play on a TV would suddenly change his mind and go with a gaming laptop instead just because it is more powerful.

Ahhh next year will be great,

No new Nvidia graphic gaming gpus and both consoles will be above desktop geforce 2080 in gaming performance.

...says random internet guy who believes every internet rumor of allegedly insiders like "Proelite" and "Oberon" and anonymous sources, but denies the statements of Nvidia's CEO (one of the most important corporations when it comes to GPUs).

As long as consoles for next gen are powerful enough I don't care much that a notebook is stronger than it.

Ok but with a little guessing you could say a $499 console is going to closely compete with a $1,499 laptop. I think a $1,000 price drop by late 2020 would be generous enough no? And if they were to launch a $999 version of the console at the same time, it probably wouldn't be all that far off the newest $2,499 laptop specs.

It's a lesser gap, sure, but 1/3 the price is still amazing if you're a couch gamer.

$500 console vs $2500 laptop. Laptop wins. My laptop is better than an Xbox One X and it was cheap. Not hard to imagine. So what anyway? Exclusives will make some amazing looking games. God of War/Death Stranding/Ghost is on a base PS4. Astral Chain/ARMS/Luigi's Mansion on a mobile chip.

The price comparison was kinda not the point, more to keep people's assumptions on next gen in check. Super, duper powerful quotes, silly TF numbers get pretty tiresome.

I don't know people keep bringing price as a comparison when the form factor of laptop isn't going to be available on next gen home consoles.

The main point he made was, small lappy with 2080mq>Next Gen console.

2080 Max Q sounds like a new tampon.