Considering that the only games I play on console these days are indies and re-releases of old games I love, he’s not wrong. We don’t need better graphics anymore, we need better games. Give me a AAA game that isn’t a money sink with shit gameplay mechanics and I’ll give more power an argument, but if your game is going to require me to get a new console or graphics card then it needs to at least be fun to play, and graphics really don’t matter for that at this point in time and that’s the only reason to say consoles need more power.
These responses are acting like Sony said this. This is an opinion from their old CEO who hasn’t been there in 7y.
That’s a nice way of saying AMD and Nvidia have abandoned new GPU development.
The way things are going, PS6 will be the last PlayStation ever. If it even gets made.
There is zero point to a console without physical games which can also all be run on a PC.
As devil’s advocate; standardising a specific SKU of hardware for Devs to target can be a point to have a console even without physical.
The devil’s devil’s advocate; that can still just be a PC anyway , a-la Steam deck, steam machine, a Mac, or even the next xbox which is rumoured to pretty much just be an Xbox pc.
Make it smaller, make it cheaper, do all the things you can around that.
I’m sure they would if they could, but that’s just a new model of a PS5, not a PS6.
It’s more than enough power to build the kind of games all of us want to play.
The ceiling on performance and fidelity is also more than most developers can afford to target.
I’m sure they’re having regular meetings on whether or not to actually go forward with a PS6 in the timeline they were targeting before the RAMpocalypse, because they’re also quite aware of how much of a disaster it’s going to be.
Yeah they might even be thinking to postpone a ps6 and just make another slim ps5 hoping to make it cheaper, like they used to back in previous generations. I feel like the slims that came out this generation were more just there for a refresh rather than aiming to make it significantly cheaper to capture the audience they were unable to with existing prices.
At least if i was in charge, that’s what I’d be advocating for. You want those that never got a ps5, stuck with their ps4 or even ps3 to see the price of a new ps5 and think that it’s now worth the cost. Sadly this would be really hard with the way the hardware manufacturing industry is like at the moment though.
Let me guess! It won‘t have more power, less power or even the exact same power of the PS5 because it simply won‘t get released.
Hard to argue with. The games people still play twenty years later mostly ran on hardware a phone outruns now; design and solid netcode kept them alive, not teraflops. A PS6 that spends its budget on load times and online play that just works would be the upgrade people actually notice.
Honestly, it’s rare these days, but I think I completely agree with him. I can see why we had an iterative console cycle up through the PS4, but even the PS5 felt partly unnecessary. There’s still games that occasionally release on PS4 because the game doesn’t strictly need amazing power.
The Xbox One X vs the Series S is an example of “newer vs stronger”. On some levels the One X has more power, but the S uses newer technology, and each console has some tradeoffs. There’s probably value in finding more innovations like that.
I do think it’s unlikely we’ll see a big new wave of games that only release on “the new system”. The install base is huge now, and the rationale for locking people off just isn’t there. People’s current systems display games at the “graphical plateau” - where there’s just not much return on investment for more graphical power.
The one good thing that will come of the hardware shortage is that developers will be forced to create more optimised software and games, or lose sales as a result.
You can already buy a Switch2 though?
