Very bold statement. I am unsure how it will be possible to beat the technical leap from the 4th to 5th generation. Going from 2D on the SNES to 3D (with antialiasing which wasnt even available on most affordable gaming PC GPUs at the time) on the N64 was such a massive leap that I dont think anything has come close since.
That would be such a titanic disaster for PR. It would be a repeat of the "Xbox One can't share games with your friend" nightmare all over again. Xbox suffered for a gen and a half because of that and they are only just now barely recovering. Doing that again would be career suicide.
The jump from Xbox One, 1.4 teraflops, to Series X, 12 teraflops, is 10.6 so as long as the next one is 23 teraflops it will be the largest jump ever. It's easy when you manipulate the numbers.
The 4090 is around 100 teraflops so even if it's a quarter as powerful as that they can claim success.
I don't buy it. Xbox has for a while now pushed away from being a hardware platform to being a software platform. Specifically a gamepass platform. They don't need to sell Xboxes anymore, they need to sell subscriptions and they can sell these on many devices.
Also, what does a next generation console even mean anymore? If you look through the history of gaming the big jumps have brought big gaming enhancements that simply couldn't be possible on previous generations. Since Xbox 360 it's just more resolution and frame rate. The only real current gen gameplay feature through hardware I've seen is fast storage which allows for things like Ratchet and Clank to do that multiverse jumping.
The only real current gen gameplay feature through hardware I've seen is fast storage which allows for things like Ratchet and Clank to do that multiverse jumping.
This works on every modern SSD which is standard in most pc for years now and also a reason why this games works on pc without that 'feature hardware' in your pc.
Yeah, I'll this chatter I'm hearing from ms and Sony is I'm not buying there next consol.
I can count on my hands how many titles I give a fuck about on current hardware. They can get fucked if they think I'm refreshing the hardware again so soon.
Might wait till they get out of the uncanny valley
Yeah thats one thing I've been really disappointed by with the new consoles. Nothing really jumps out at me when I think of exclusives or "next gen" gaming experiences. I think part of the issue is the pandemic really messed up development, but also I think these consoles need to stick around longer.
After 3 or so years they consider the consoles "dead" and then it feels like everything just shifts towards the next console. I would like to see these companies taking more creative risks like we saw in the 90's and 2000's. The past decade has felt...very stagnant