Sony Confirms It's Working On PS5

[Taf the Ghost]

1 hour ago, asus killer said:

really not an expert, but aren't todays consoles much cheaper and faster do develop, using of the shelf components and x86 ou 64 compatible CPU's, unlike the past?

old consoles were unique peaces of hardware and software.

Different engineering resources. Tapeout for silicon is a lot more expensive. During some of the earlier eras, there were so many leading-edge Fabs that prices were also driven down pretty far. Sony has its own fabs, but they long ago moved away from in-house parts for the Playstation. 

 

They should be relatively faster to develop, since they don't have to develop all of the technology in-house. However, you still have to pay for all of that engineering, thus you want the per-unit cost pretty low by the time you go into mass-scale production. Plus, depending on what they need it to do, they might just be waiting on certain prices to come down. If this is a 2020 product, they could go with DDR5 or HBM3. (I'd expect DDR4-based, but we don't know exactly what they want from it, performance wise.)

[James]

This thrad title is kind of click baity: the source has almost the exact opposite title, and the article contains almost no new information. 

[Stefan Payne]

21 hours ago, asus killer said:

now console generations last way longer than in the past. Between NES and SNES it took Nintendo 6 years. And 3 years between launch of Master System and Mega Drive for Sega. For example.

Look at the Games for those consoles.

You can see the differences between Mario Bros. on NES and Mario World on SNES 10 miles away. It was that drastic.

 

The difference between Playstation 3 and 4 is huge as well but not that great. And right now we are pretty far up the ladder...

On 10/12/2018 at 6:29 AM, williamcll said:

Wondering if it's gonna be using the AMD 7nm chips.

highly probable, since we are talking about another 2-3 Years from now until the consoles arrive.

[JoostinOnline]

11 hours ago, James said:

This thrad title is kind of click baity: the source has almost the exact opposite title, and the article contains almost no new information. 

I'm curious if Canadians will get the reference. XD

On 10/11/2018 at 6:31 PM, suchamoneypit said:

I remember when the console generations were pretty spaced out. Either time is going by faster or it seems like the console are coming out almost just as frequently as when you'd want to upgrade GPUs. Don't see myself ever returning to console because of this.

You're not remembering correctly then, or you're counting the Pro as a unique console. It's already been 7 years.

[Kamina]

Not really news when they said they were making next gen titles at E3 2018.

[Rohith_Kumar_Sp]

On 10/10/2018 at 1:55 AM, PCGuy_5960 said:

Cool, but I really don't care TBH. lol

considering everything is designed and optimized around consoles, you should, games always tend to be stuck at the limitation of consoles graphically. as a PC gamer, this is good news as game devs are gonna try to improve graphical fidelity now that the next-gen console can handle it.

[Froody129]

We need a new PSP that isn't the Vita. The OG ones were awesome 

[Drak3]

10 hours ago, Froody129 said:

We need a new PSP that isn't the Vita. The OG ones were awesome 

The PSP was a piece of shit. The Vita was leagues ahead, just didn't get much software and wasn't advertised much or well.

[ZacoAttaco]

3 hours ago, Drak3 said:

The PSP was a piece of shit. The Vita was leagues ahead, just didn't get much software and wasn't advertised much or well.

The Vita also sold expensive proprietary memory cards which essentially killed the system. The PSP also sold similar memory but at the time it wasn’t common to download games to your device.

 

There was a lot of problems with the PSP, the UMD standard was less than ideal but if you flash the system (which is very easy to do) it turns into a really good system, provided you have enough memory.

 

Good thing Nintendo clearly took notice of the Vita and choose SD cards over a proprietary standard for the switch.

 

But to be honest, Sony have never been that great in the handheld market, that will always be Nintendo’s stomping ground.