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Next-Gen PS6 and XBOX |OT| Console Tech Thread Redux

Not going to lie, I'm hyped for nothing these days. The hobby is getting more and more expensive as time moves forward and with these systems requiring the amount of RAM and Storage that they are rumored to be using is going to put these devices into a price bracket that's impossible to support. I'd be happy to see the consoles and PC's that are currently out actually get games that are optimized to run on them. Back in the 90's game companies were working with a minuscule fraction of the spec's we have today and squeezed machines to produce decent visuals and relied on gameplay to really seal the deal. When looking back at X360 / PS3 even, the amount of RAM and CPU power they had compared to the output was pretty impressive. I've tired of these fuckers brute forcing these machines to make a buck. GTAV is a prime example of optimization. It blows my mind when realizing that game was achievable on that generation of consoles.

We don't need new consoles, we need better developers.

Perhaps the Zen6/RNDA5 architecture with AI integration will create breakthroughs in graphics that will not be possible on current gen. It's up to AMD/Sony/MSFT to serve that to us. I am down with both PS6 and Helix this time because they are both going off different directions without losing backwards compatibility. Still on Xbox One X, and have yet to finish a lot of games but at the same time want something new...
 
For now we should let it be as it is. Both consoles in one thread. Once they're officially announced, we can split.
Other than for some personal reason it's not something I still agree with as it will not create the most conductive conversation and personally I don't really want to mix both as it's already hard enough to keep up with all the other tech and then you're talking about the same technologies in one thread. It's not some picky thing it's just that people are too busy to keep up with all the little things and then they're going to cross the streams. But I can see the reasoning until there's more technical stuff but I think stuff has already been revealed that you can already speculate and start to compare a PC or something just for the sake of it since we have very little information as of now
 
We don't need new consoles, we need better developers.




Honestly I'd take PS3/XB360 hardware with more RAM as a new generation so long as we could have those developers back again over the best modern hardware money can buy.

I'll play at shitty resolutions at this point just to have good, unique games again.
 
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