Looks Like Cyberpunk 2077 Dev May Bring An Unspecified RPG To E3 2018

@blood-souls: E3 = WORLD CUP, If you are a true world cup fan

@Jimbowesker: TW1 you can play on the weakest laptop. Do it, if you're considering yourself TW fan. No remasters/remakes.

@videogameninja: Totally agree

@videogameninja: I'm not convinced there will be an incompatible "next gen" console from either player anytime in the foreseeable future. Why would they? Consoles only worked that way before because most of the hardware was custom ASICs and that simply isnt financially viable anymore. Even massive vendors like apple are at best licensing an architecture and using that (their custom chips are still ARM chips made by the same foundries that make everyone else stuff).

The current consoles are all x86 based (the switch is ARM+Nvidia based) and using AMD GPUs.

The question is, what does that extra hardware buy the gamer? Higher refresh rates? Not much use to 90% of console gamers yet (most TVs are more or less limited to 60hz regardless what they say in marketing, at least for now). 4k? 4k is pretty computationally expensive at the moment, requiring 700$ worth of GPU to hold 60fps. 2-4 years from now we might be able to hold 4k@60fps for 250-300$ in GPU power, we will see. VR? Sony has already released a VR headset that functions with the ps4pro so its unlikely they would market a new console and a new headset for the console so quickly but they might. Regardless VR is still pretty niche and still requires a pretty expensive setup for a top end experience that will really drive acceptance IMO. So any brand new console with a tiny game library will really need something special to bring players to the table (Nintendo has that with their first party software and their mobile/not mobile device). Going with just pure hardware I dont really see the jump most people would expect as being financially viable (and I just recently moved from a gtx 970 and 1st gen i7 to a 1080ti and 8th gen i7 and it took buying a 144hz monitor to really *feel* the difference in the upgrade).

So at this point I dont see any real technical or market reason for a console manufacturer to build a new console that destroys compatibility with the previous one. Since it's already been proven an effective strategy I expect both MS and Sony to stick with the new PC style of upgrade in their console family's. Even if they decide to call it a PS5 I still expect it to be an x86 design with a AMD or Nvidia GPU (because no one else makes them as fast or as cheaply as those two players do right now) and I expect it to be fully backward compatible with the PS4.

Plus, Bethesda has proven you dont even need to have a new console come out to sell the same game two or three times! You can just keep repackaging it (skyrim anyone?).