We are about to enter a consumer tech dark age.
I have no idea how companies expect to sell us AI if no one has a device that can access it.
It’ll be the Chromebook model: ship devices with barebones specs with the idea that consumers must subscribe for cloud access for true computational capabilities.
They’ll gladly rent out usage of a computer to you for a subscription of expensive tokens like gems in a consumer unfriendly video game.
I don’t think it is a dark age. It is just that there isn’t anything worth to increase on the hardware side; we’ve hit the point of diminishing returns on performance.
We could go for more power-efficient hardware like what Apple did when they started designing their own chips.
No one’s asking for a PS6. Each console gen should last longer than the last anyway at this point.
That’s not true. I wanted a “next gen” since about 2 years into the current gen when it was clear that the hardware wasn’t good enough to keep up with pc and game tech.
If you’re expecting to always be on the cutting edge, why in the world are you buying consoles? That’s the opposite of everything a console promises (stable development target for developers)
Good luck selling them after today’s news
what would even be the point of a ps6 really? in terms of graphics i feel like we’ve reached diminishing returns…
it’s just new hardware for the sake of it, to enable games that are even less optimized and look (& most importantly, play) almost identical to games released 10 years ago on hardware with a fraction of the power (and a fraction of the energy consumption…)