It’ll be the Chromebook model: ship devices with barebones specs with the idea that consumers must subscribe for cloud access for true computational capabilities.
The PS6 might just be a streaming box, about as big as an Apple TV, that streams video from their servers that run the games for you, and run AI models outside of peak hours.
Maybe hardware limitations will force developers to actually start optimising their code a bit. Ever increasing power leads to laziness because everyone’s got more than enough CPU/RAM/storage. That feels less of an issue in gaming though, where the majority of my pc library will run on a decade-old laptop but a web page demands enough power to run crysis.
I don’t think it is a dark age. It is just that there isn’t anything worth to increase on the hardware side; we’ve hit the point of diminishing returns on performance.
We are about to enter a consumer tech dark age.
I have no idea how companies expect to sell us AI if no one has a device that can access it.
They’ll gladly rent out usage of a computer to you for a subscription of expensive tokens like gems in a consumer unfriendly video game.
It’ll be the Chromebook model: ship devices with barebones specs with the idea that consumers must subscribe for cloud access for true computational capabilities.
Chromebooks are usually plenty powerful to run an independent OS. Just not a bloated one consumers are used to.
They make it purposefully hard to do though. It should be as easy as plugging in a USB.
Add another contradiction onto the pile.
The PS6 might just be a streaming box, about as big as an Apple TV, that streams video from their servers that run the games for you, and run AI models outside of peak hours.
We’ve been in it for a few years now… and it’s not ending anytime soon
Maybe hardware limitations will force developers to actually start optimising their code a bit. Ever increasing power leads to laziness because everyone’s got more than enough CPU/RAM/storage. That feels less of an issue in gaming though, where the majority of my pc library will run on a decade-old laptop but a web page demands enough power to run crysis.
I don’t think it is a dark age. It is just that there isn’t anything worth to increase on the hardware side; we’ve hit the point of diminishing returns on performance.
We could go for more power-efficient hardware like what Apple did when they started designing their own chips.