Playstation to follow MS with PS4. 5?

Eh, not sure. Gives me a creepy crawly feeling like the old Sega add ons used to.

It makes sense, consoles are practically the only hardware I can think of with rapidly improving technology stunted by a 5-8 year release schedule. It has it's benefits in that you feel secure that your purchase will be relevant for a long while, but it's also a pretty outdated way of doing things. As long as full software compatibility is kept at the very least between the mid-gen updates I wouldn't have a problem with it. If Microsoft do it, Sony won't want to all of a sudden be the weaker console, plus it'll greatly benefit their VR hardware which should preferably be running at 90fps.

But if they get it right, and it seems to be what the rumours point to, you won't be any worse off than you are now. Your original hardware will still last for years. It'll still get dated and perform badly. These things will happen no matter what. But now you'll have the option to upgrade to something that has better performance.

I mean... that's what consoles are. The only difference here is the games are forward and backwards compatible and the hardware release schedule is, say, every 3 years rather than every 5-7.

Yo, you're not going have to buy a console every 3 years. The games will still play. I'd imagine at some point, maybe a 8 year mark they have to have a noted requirement given to play new games on newer hardware, depends on how tech advances, but they'll just make the games before then to run with lower specs on older hardware. It'll auto detect.

It's like how they released new consoles all the time last gen with certain changes, those changes now will include better performance for newer, and hopefully older games. The devs could start making games with future performance in mind, so when you go back to play the classics you already bought, you get performance increase.

But, I'm very much over 'console nostalgia'. Buying a new system every 6 years that is supposed to be so different while getting bored with old hardware. Console tech is just catching up to what a PC is, and it doesn't make sense for console cycles to be traditional anymore. Console tradition, as well as the shitty changes they made to consoles last and this gen, is what made me quit consoles in the first place. Just skipped to the chase and went Master Race.

It's almost as if, unlike you, all of the people who are on board with and incredibly excited about high-end consumer VR have actually tried it and noticed it's fucking incredible.

No you don't understand. Some of the biggest names in gaming like John Carmack (creator of Wolfenstein, Doom, godfather of 3D graphics and literal rocket engineer), Michael Abrash (co-creator of Quake, general genius) and Gabe Newell (you know) as well as a whole host of other huge developers and the overwhelming majority of people that try it are all dummies peddling bullshit because reasons.

Sorry for not engaging in a humble discussion with a "lol that thing I haven't tried is a gimmick for dummies" drive by shitpost.

Well they look like a moron.

Let the rest of us just understand that and move on, no need to counter with a barrage of posts insisting any of us who don't buy into VR are the idiots or "fools."

Well sure, and I'm mostly talking about Sig more than you.

As for people that post like that, I just assume their own stupidity will lead to them dying in a fire, and move on with my days.

BEEF

Not a big fan of this really , having a .5 will just complicate things for everyone! developers would have issues creating games as naturally they would want to make games on the more powerful one but then again they are tied to the older technology as well and then we have a split community with 2 very similar console. it just won't work properly and its bad for everyone.

They need to have a 5 years life span to keep everyone happy. no more or less. forcing a console to be a PC won't work , not in my opinion anyway.

For me, one of the few up sides I had left for consoles was thr security in knowing that for the next half decade, this machine will run games designed specifically for it. It's the one thing PC gaming doesn't have. In 5 years my PC could very well be obsolete for games comingout, but in 5 years if they make a NX game, it will be designed to run on that hardware.

That stability and exclusives were really all I had left tying me to a console.