There’s an excellent chance the PlayStation 4 will be the last videogame console ever, at least as we understand the term.
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FromSoftware president Hidetaka Miyazaki has said the studio may consider including “beginning to end, total co-op” in future games.
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oh yeh this is it so you better enjoy it!
actually I wouldn't even call the x86 Kernal PS4 a console as I call it a PS4PC!
6 to 8 months after the PS4PC releases, there will be Tablet released that is just as powerful as the PS4PC!
Example: An updated Sony Tap 20 mobile Desktop hybrid Slate with a Core i7 and a GPU better than the Intel HD4000 (like a GTX660m ) would out perform a PS4PC
So hence no more making hardware when every PC manufacturer can do it! PS and Xbox will just be publishing Brands and games will be available through PSN or Xboxlive and played on any Device!
Wow Wired:
Last three PS4 articles, same re-make.. Wired sure loves to stick it to SONY!.. I don't care about this console war, but damn these types of articles sure make you wonder and the same crap get approved over and over.
Wired:
PlayStation 4: The Last of the Game Consoles
Sony Jumps the Gun With Skimpy PlayStation 4 Reveal
Sony Announces PlayStation 4, Doesn’t Show It
That's why ps4 can push to the cloud
Wired is right, in a manner they didn't even mention.
The PS4 will be produced at a 28nm fabrication scale. Likely the first price cut will occur when AMD hits the 20nm fab node (~2015 or 2016 for this to actually hit the PS4), and the next major cut will occur at 14nm (~2019, at the *earliest*). Sony, and all console manufacturers, may be forced to settle at this node, for purely financial reasons.
Here's the rub -- upgrading to 20nm fab tech costs *billions* of USD per fab plant -- an increase a good 10-20 fold what fab scale upgrades have cost in this past generation, due to the immense costs involved in making fab machines which can operate effectively at those scales. The amount of time AMD will need to pay for these upgrades is probably longer than the typical console lifespan! Upgrading to 14nm costs even more -- its possible that AMD won't even do it during the PS4's lifespan... that is, if the PS4 only lasts 10 years, and not *longer*. Intel is the only chip maker with the sales to actually drive these kinds of upgrades in a reasonable amount of time.
On top of that financial hurdles of AMD actually profiting during the PS4's lifespan, and Sony still being able to drop the price to sell to the everyjoe consumer, 10nm fab tech basically represents the end-of-line for semiconductor technology, and hence computing technology improvements, as we know it. It will also be so enormously expensive, that its very unlikely that a home console (a "PS5", if you will) will use it in the next 20 years.
The PS4 will likely be the last console Sony produces, for purely financial reasons, let alone technological ones. It may see some minor variation in the next couple decades, but there will likely never be a serious tech jump again.. a PS5 would have to be based on only mildly more powerful technology, to be profitable at the end-of-line 10nm fabrication scale, *decades* down the road from now.