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What To Expect From Sony's Next-Gen PlayStation (wired.com)
Daetrin writes: Sony is unwilling to confirm "Playstation 5" as the name, but their next console is "no mere upgrade" according to a report from Wired, which cites Sony executives -- who spoke on the record:
"PlayStation's next-generation console ticks all those boxes, starting with an AMD chip at the heart of the device. (Warning: some alphabet soup follows.) The CPU is based on the third generation of AMD's Ryzen line and contains eight cores of the company's new 7nm Zen 2 microarchitecture. The GPU, a custom variant of Radeon's Navi family, will support ray tracing, a technique that models the travel of light to simulate complex interactions in 3D environments. While ray tracing is a staple of Hollywood visual effects and is beginning to worm its way into $10,000 high-end processors, no game console has been able to manage it. Yet."
The console will also have a solid-state drive and is currently planned to be backward-compatible with both PS4 games and PSVR.
"PlayStation's next-generation console ticks all those boxes, starting with an AMD chip at the heart of the device. (Warning: some alphabet soup follows.) The CPU is based on the third generation of AMD's Ryzen line and contains eight cores of the company's new 7nm Zen 2 microarchitecture. The GPU, a custom variant of Radeon's Navi family, will support ray tracing, a technique that models the travel of light to simulate complex interactions in 3D environments. While ray tracing is a staple of Hollywood visual effects and is beginning to worm its way into $10,000 high-end processors, no game console has been able to manage it. Yet."
The console will also have a solid-state drive and is currently planned to be backward-compatible with both PS4 games and PSVR.
The problem with PC gaming is the difference of quality between two different PC's Depending on your video card, your CPU, how much Ram you have... This makes some games run superior to a console, and on a slightly different PC (Still modern) you have bugs and performance problems.
You get a Playstation or an XBox and match their names, you mostly expect the games to run consistently.
The biggest point of branding, isn't that a brand is superior, but a brand is consistent.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
PC's are modular and not actively trying to tie your hands, that's the real difference. Sony doesn't want you using their box for anything that doesn't make them money, and if you try, they'll brick you.
Do you not understand that this is what many gamers want?
I've got a decently powerful PC that I can play games on, but typically I use it more for coding and web browsing. When I actually want to game, I more often than not use one of my consoles. I don't have to worry about compatibility, whether or not this game runs well on my PC or whether or not I need to upgrade, and I can just sit back and play it on my couch without having route an HDMI cable around the room or anything.
Yes, games on the PC can look a little better, but I'm long past worrying about graphics these days. I take advancements and they're nice but honestly PS3 graphics are "good enough" for me. I could live with that level of quality indefinitely and would be fine. And I'm fine with those consoles being used only for what Sony/MS intended them for. I don't have any use for them. Hell I don't even watch Netflix on them because it feels like a waste of power - I use a Roku instead.
"People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."-Mark Twain
Gamers WANT to be bricked, DRM'ed, and stuck with unfixable problems, that's your argument now? Console retards I swear, you deserve to be raped as you are.
" I take advancements and they're nice but honestly PS3 graphics are "good enough" for me. " - Now you're going to say PS3 should be "good enough for anybody" right?
By that argument nobody would be buying new consoles, genius.
I wrote a few years ago about why people submit to console inflexibility. The reasons I came up with include these:
- Less chance of ending up with "fake game" shovelware even worse than E.T., Chase the Chuck Wagon, and other poster children of the 1983 crash
- No worry about reading the tea leaves that are PC game system requirements
- Little variation among PCs in an online multiplayer pickup group of strangers giving nobody an unfair competitive advantage
- Less cheating in an online multiplayer pickup group of strangers due to no mods
- No need for antivirus
- Offline use of disc games is more convenient for gamers in rural areas or deployed on military bases
- Less hardware variation means less chance of driver conflicts
- Living room friendly case by default
You don't "have to fiddle" to play games lol. Installing drivers is 2 clicks. If you can't install a game, run windows update, and shut down properly, you'll probably shit all over your playstation like a retard also.
"Yeah, I COULD cook a meal in my kitchen" - Per this analogy you got rid of your kitchen, eat exclusively at Burger King, become obese, and can't take care of yourself properly. Yes, there are morons like that.
That doesn't make it a good thing, because the lowest common denominator exists doesn't mean you exclusively have to cater to it or march it into bondage...
Also, per your analogy, if your fast food playstation fucks up THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. You starve.
it makes me wonder why should I even purchase a console when a desktop will be infinitely better in terms of cost, performance, and longevity?
Playing on the couch with a controller? I mean if you're single you may get away with a battle station in your living room, but for the rest of us ... well we own consoles AND PCs for that reason.