4k60fps will be considered unplayable by the internet.

PS7 is announced and will bring revolution in gaming by processing detailed lighting reflection on curved and dynamic surfaces like the fingernails of the protagonist or when some object hit a pudlle. Wind effects on liquid surfaces and hair/fur will have a more detailed physic reaction also. All of that will make the PS7 version of games outstands the PS5pro version

What part of 2025 is drastically different than what would have been expected in 2015?

Sony & Microsoft released pretty straight forward successors to PS4 & XBO. Online shooters, sports and open-world games are still the big hitters on those platforms. PS4 was already outselling XBO by a large margin by 2015 and that trend has continued.

I’ve never been much of a mobile or PC gamer but from what I’ve seen, those ecosystems are still very much the same as they were 10 years ago. Mobile is still predominantly small, casual games that can be played in quick bursts and PC is still dominated by Steam.

Nintendo was in a down period in 2015 and releasing a hybrid may be a surprise to many but Iwata was discussing plans to unify their handheld & console divisions as far back as 2014/2015. Vita was already dead/dying and abandoned by Sony so them opting out of the handheld market shouldn’t be a surprise.

Things like Steam Deck & Rog Ally might be a surprise but there has always been alternatives to Nintendo handhelds like Atari Lynx, Game Gear, TurboExpress, Nomad, Neo Geo Pocket, WonderSwan, N-Gage, PSP, Zodiac, Gizmondo, Vita, GPD Win, Shield Portable, etc.

2015 saw the introduction of Steam Machines which never caught on and was around the time VR headsets starting getting released but those have also remained a niche market.

Idk, I just don’t see 2025 as being massively different than 2015. To me, it seems pretty much the same and should only be surprising if you thought it would have massive changes like Nintendo going 3rd party or mobile gaming taking over or VR being mainstream.

Grim for those like me who like physical even if I get a ton of digital games.
Switch 3 or whatever will be years into its life with support for physical Switch and Switch 2 games but only Game Key Cards and Codes for "physical" games.
PS7 will launch in 2034-2035. It will be digital-only. PS6 in the best-case scenario has an optical drive only as a separately available add-on.
Xbox 5 (the currently in development console in 2025) will be the final Xbox console. By 2035, there will be Xbox-branded Gaming PCs with a Game Pass subscription (to start) and an Xbox controller included.
PlayStation Plus Essential will be $100 a year, $90 will be the standard for AAA games, PS7 will be around $900 and Xbox Gaming PCs will hit over $1000.

I mean, I didn't see many people in 2015 predict that the successor to the Wii U would outsell the PS4 and DS, or that Forza and Gears of War would come to Playstation, or the advent of AI, or that Sony's first party blockbusters would come to PC.

1. "Unreal Engine. Unreal Engine Everywhere."
2. PS5 is still supported.
3. "Consoles" are families of systems with multiple configurations and form factors.
4. "Generations" are replaced with "minimum requirements".
5. Xbox = PC with an Xbox sticker and legacy Xbox emulation.
6. Several "console franchises" will be released on mobile phones day 1.
7. Premium services remain a small segment of the market.
8. Steam domination.

9. Physical media is still around.

Calling Switch the successor to Wii U while leaving out their handheld line is pretty disingenuous. Yeah, 150+ million would have seemed like a long shot but like I said, Nintendo was already talking about unifying their handheld & consoles into a unified ecosystem as far back as 2014 so the successor to 3DS+Wii U (~90 million) being a big hit shouldn’t have been a surprise.

Yeah, Sony & Microsoft have started to release games on other platforms which is surprising but I don’t think those are massive shifts that make 2025 unrecognizable to someone in 2015. Console/mobile/PC hardware & software is a pretty straightforward evolution of the last decade.

I’m not really sure what to say about AI, has it done something that drastically changed gaming?

• The PS5 blu-ray add-on won't be compatible to PS6, because... reasons.

Generation will be seen as irrelevant because of minimal graphics upgrades and very few games able to extract the maximum graphical capabilities of devices. This will make Sony and Microsoft to adjust their strategies and do something similar to cellphones with revisions every 3 years instead of generational leaps. PS7 will be released in 2035 and will be the last Sony console with a new value proposition of being just a "PC for dummies"

People will start buying consoles the same way as they do with smartphones. Upgrading when they feel they need, or when their older version of the console breaks. It will be the end of subsided model, every unit will need to be profitable

Switch 3 will be 3~4 years old, slightly stronger than a PS5 Pro and the best selling console in the market by far, selling 50~60% more than a PS6. Receiving almost every third party game, since almost no third party will be targeting PS7 specs yet

Nintendo will keep generations because they can still afford locking their games on next-gen consoles, but Switch 3 will see a significant decline in popularity in the last years of its life because of lack of generation upgrades compared to games from Switch 2

If it's made on N1 and consumes ~80W on docked, then yeah, maybe.

There is not even any room left for a PS7 generational leap with CMOS, by the way.

Yup, PS7 won't be a generational leap, it will be a change in hardware architecture to allow upgrades and revisions every few years. Think of it as boxed PC. Sales will be really slow, since it will be very similar in power to a PS6, and it will sell for extended period of time

It won't be called PS7, it will have another name qualifier, to show it's a completely new series of consoles instead of a continuation of PS6. Imagine it like a Samsung Galaxy, we have Galaxy A and S. One offering more power, and other budgeted option, and with revisions for both lines every few years 

If this business models will work or not is anyone's guess