I don't think we're anywhere near to anything that can sit at home and do this kind of things at higher resolutions (Genie 3 is 720p/24fps) - think multiple H100 cards, so we're maybe even in thousands of TFLOPS and massive amounts of memory. That's why I think this will (eventually) come to streaming gaming services and not to dedicated home hardware, at least not any time soon.

Does Dreamcast definitely count as 6th gen? Would it's very early launch and reasons for massive failure come into play? PS2 launches first and starts the gen if Dreamcast doesn't count or PS2 would have launched in the middle otherwise, with GCN and XBOX launching late. So late XB360 launches just 4 years later. Couldn't launching late count as holding back a gen?

The core point is PS2 isn't exactly the powerhouse hardware of 6th gen, by a fair margin, yet look at its massive success. Same thing can be said about the Wii. Both SNY and Nin had the branding and ecosystem to pull it off. The right devices, at the right time, at the right price. Even if this PS6P meant that PS5 gets support the entirety of 10th gen, it won't necessarily be a bad thing overall.

It will be streamed first yeah though even then it could make traditional video game experiences seem quaint to people. Combine this with VR and so many people will be lost in their own curated worlds 24/7.

Dreamcast is definitely 6th gen. There is even a fully working version of GTA3 running on it and that was the game that was revolutionary and defined the PS2 in its early years. Can look up GTA 3 Dreamcast on Youtube if you want.  

PS2 isn't a great example. This situation is as if Sony had re-released the PS1 in 2000 alongside a PS1 handheld. It wouldn't have worked because of the competition having much better platforms. This would be slightly different though because PS5 doesn't have any bottlenecks, and there's no competition anymore. Xbox has practically left the market and Nintendo doesn't have a platform powerful enough to take advantage of Sony re-releasing the PS5 in handheld form as the PS6P and a PS vita TV style PS5 and calling it PS6.

Oh absolutely - AI is already pretty descent in behaving as virtual GM (emphases on descent) and by the time this gets to be commercially viable it will become much more proficient in that, so "Dream up your own world" concept will shatter the very foundation of what is interactive entertainment.

fps doesn't tell the whole story, so I wouldn't fixate on that. If someone is getting the hyprid version they obviously don't care about maximum performance.

Game feature set and function could surpass things achievable on the base PS5, like AI NPCs, physic simulations. All with the benefit of actually having potentially better image quality than all the PS5 games currently depending on FSR3 or below

"By combining massive amounts of training data with Machine Learning and a technique called subspace simulation we managed to produce a data-driven physics simulation, which is appropriate for games, and runs 300 to 5000 times faster than conventional physics simulations at the cost of some small additional memory usage. For more details take a look at the full article written by Daniel Holden, Animation Programmer at Ubisoft La Forge."

https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/studio/laforge/news/1Dp7nj7RdnpgPAbftcRu7V/a-datadriven-physics-simulation-based-on-machine-learning#:~:text=By%20combining%20massive%20amounts%20of,Programmer%20at%20Ubisoft%20La%20Forge.

I disagree. No-ones going to buy a PS6P hybrid that has half the framerate of the PS5. How could they even begin to market and sell that to people? It's got 7-8 years to be something better than PS5 so at very least it needs to match the 60fps framerate when the ps5 is capable of 60fps.  

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Every week in the UK for a year,  hogwarts legacy on Switch (1!) matched or exceeded the physical sales of the PS5 game. You guys have to accept there are huge portions of gamers who are not obsessed with the same parameters of you.

Zelda at 30fps sold double Horizon at 60fps, because people were more interested in the experience Zelda offered. Frame rate is simply not what determines whether someone is interested in an experience or not. Elden ring wouldn't of sold 40m otherwise lol

I've already said I suspect it will be a 30 to 70 spread between hybrid and home console, but 30fps is not whats gonna stop a parent getting rheir child a hybrid, or a busy adult wanting portability. The best selling Ratchet and Clank is the 30fps PS4 game, not the other 5 60fps entries..

No example is the perfect example because nothing lines up perfectly now vs then, so all we can do is take something similar enough to make the point.

The question is will 10th gen with PS5 range hardware hold things back? The point is no, it won't, because PS2 wasn't the best hardware at the time and it didn't and neither was or did the Wii. Heck even SW1 and SW2 weren't the best handheld hardware and look how they've done.

Everyone knows the most powerful hardware never wins the gen, with PS4 being the exception, simply because while PS4 wasn't some powerhouse, XB1 was pretty weak for 8th gen.

You're correct though in the fact that SNY doesn't need to chase the performance crown any longer, plus doing so in the foreseeable future just isn't a smart idea with the worldwide economy the way it is.