Scustin Bieburr
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At that point you just own a PC that requires a controller for most of its games.
The benefits consoles had were price and less of the hassles that came with PC gaming like multiple patches to make the game more stable.
Now you're getting a PC you can't upgrade, requires a monthly subscription to play online, games that don't have settings you can tweak to get to 120fps and no access to mods. Its a ripoff at that point.
The smartest move is to keep the disc drive in for the sake of backwards compatibility and for people who will buy physical, and make sure the console has an emulator built in to emulate PS3 games if you put the disc into the system. Don't focus on power, focus on affordability and you'll have a winner. The hot new tech in games now is path tracing. Path tracing to most people doesn't make an obvious visual difference while tanking performance. A PS6 would be expected to be able to handle path tracing and ray tracing in games. You are not getting that kind of performance out of a console unless you want it to be bigger than the ps5 and cost 1000 dollars.
I own a 12gb gpu in my PC and that thing can run indiana jones on medium/low settings at 1440p with path tracing on. I get about 30-40fps in the siam levels with that. To get a stable 40-60, the ps6 would have to lower the internal resolution to something like 720p, and would upscale that 720p to 1440p which conflicts with sonys mandate of also selling premium 4k tvs. Kind of embarrassing to be showing off a game running at sub 4k on a TV that costs more than 2 months of rent.
Affordability should be the goal. Nintendo has had the most affordable console 3 times in a row and it's worked out extremely well for them 2/3 times so far. The playbook is very simple:
1. Invest in your first party studios so they pump out visually impressive games you cant get elsewhere
2. Focus on making the console portable and affordable so families will buy them
If you can do those two things, you'll make customers and investors happy. You're spending less money on expensive hardware, and you're getting more sales. Drop the price of the ps5 as well and any remaining holdouts will pick one up.
The benefits consoles had were price and less of the hassles that came with PC gaming like multiple patches to make the game more stable.
Now you're getting a PC you can't upgrade, requires a monthly subscription to play online, games that don't have settings you can tweak to get to 120fps and no access to mods. Its a ripoff at that point.
The smartest move is to keep the disc drive in for the sake of backwards compatibility and for people who will buy physical, and make sure the console has an emulator built in to emulate PS3 games if you put the disc into the system. Don't focus on power, focus on affordability and you'll have a winner. The hot new tech in games now is path tracing. Path tracing to most people doesn't make an obvious visual difference while tanking performance. A PS6 would be expected to be able to handle path tracing and ray tracing in games. You are not getting that kind of performance out of a console unless you want it to be bigger than the ps5 and cost 1000 dollars.
I own a 12gb gpu in my PC and that thing can run indiana jones on medium/low settings at 1440p with path tracing on. I get about 30-40fps in the siam levels with that. To get a stable 40-60, the ps6 would have to lower the internal resolution to something like 720p, and would upscale that 720p to 1440p which conflicts with sonys mandate of also selling premium 4k tvs. Kind of embarrassing to be showing off a game running at sub 4k on a TV that costs more than 2 months of rent.
Affordability should be the goal. Nintendo has had the most affordable console 3 times in a row and it's worked out extremely well for them 2/3 times so far. The playbook is very simple:
1. Invest in your first party studios so they pump out visually impressive games you cant get elsewhere
2. Focus on making the console portable and affordable so families will buy them
If you can do those two things, you'll make customers and investors happy. You're spending less money on expensive hardware, and you're getting more sales. Drop the price of the ps5 as well and any remaining holdouts will pick one up.
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