Consoles were never the top grade of computing hardware, they are supposed to be affordable for regular people. Though PS5 and XSX are closer to the newest tech compared to general computers than any consoles before, all the more reason we don’t need to rush another generation.
10 years used to be the difference between entire new worlds of experiences, the NES and the Playstation 1 are 9 years apart. Today, with a PS4, I can run God of War Ragnarok, one of the latest and greatest games, the same that PS5 got. Meanwhile, Nintendo got by just fine with hardware that is even weaker.
Better hardware has its benefits, but we got to a point where the constraints of weaker hardware are not all that limiting, and the expectations to reach the best that better hardware can offer are already extremely demanding which means studios need more time. Time that is already becoming too much for some developers. So, again, what’s all this for? How does it makes for better games? Just to have the newest so we have newest?
What for? So we aren’t stuck with hardware that was already outdated on release for 8 years.
The PS4 still gets games because it has an install base of 100 million people to sell games to who are still spending money.
Consoles were never the top grade of computing hardware, they are supposed to be affordable for regular people. Though PS5 and XSX are closer to the newest tech compared to general computers than any consoles before, all the more reason we don’t need to rush another generation.
10 years used to be the difference between entire new worlds of experiences, the NES and the Playstation 1 are 9 years apart. Today, with a PS4, I can run God of War Ragnarok, one of the latest and greatest games, the same that PS5 got. Meanwhile, Nintendo got by just fine with hardware that is even weaker.
Better hardware has its benefits, but we got to a point where the constraints of weaker hardware are not all that limiting, and the expectations to reach the best that better hardware can offer are already extremely demanding which means studios need more time. Time that is already becoming too much for some developers. So, again, what’s all this for? How does it makes for better games? Just to have the newest so we have newest?