Money post......Not just that, but the XBONEX has 12GB of RAM, but a console launching in November of 2020 is only going to make do with 16GB???..........So whilst you have only a few games doing 4k textures now and even in these cases you have dynamic textures, see-saw lods and cases of low rez variations in these very games. Next gen will have a higher installment of 4k textures across the board for it's games, but not just that, you will see less inconsistencies and variable quality textures in said games too........I'm also pretty sure that we will see textures hit 8k in select titles and some indie and AA games will hit 8k resolution, so lots of memory/bandwidth is important.....
Next gen will see higher quality PBR and materials work, much larger worlds, you need a good bit of memory to keep those assets in memory and minimize loadtimes and to prevent too much cordoning of levels etc.....Also, look at how things have evolved in the console gamespace, people want to multitask so much these days on consoles. I'm pretty sure having your game running simul with a few more apps is another thing we will see more of. I believe you can have a game and 1 app running on PRO simultaneously, but I'm pretty sure people will want more next gen.....Look at all the demands people make in firmware threads as a guide, they want better browsers, they want their skype up, they want better/faster broadcasting and media tools whilst they game.....I think this gen, if XBONEX is pushing 12GB for it's current games and OS offerings, you will need much more as things evolve for a new generation.....
As I said before, we will see lots of improvements to GPU's and CPU's this year in terms of advancement, that's up to Dec 2018, then we have a whole other year of advancements to come after that up to Dec of 2019, then after that, we have another 11 months of advancements to come to November of 2020 when the PS5 launches....If anything, I think my predictions are quite conservative.....relative to the advancements/roadmaps forecasted in the silicon space....
Let's be clear here, the mining craze won't have a hold on the industry too much longer, since there are dedicated cards coming for these guys.....Miners don't need 16Gb of Vram on their GPU's, neither do they need many of the gaming eccentric features...., so less cost to the manufacturers, It's a win win for Nvidia/AMD, miners will have to buy their mining cards and AMD/NV can just block mining features on their gaming GPU's through firmware.....So less overused cards will hit the market and prevent gamers from purchasing new etc....and of course, gamers can resume purchasing their product at MSRP.....So there's a lot that is going to improve.....There's is still the issue of memory and it's price, but that too will abate because there's going to be lots of choice on the market in a minute.....Who knows, the future 7nm Vega's may very well use GDDR6, but apart from GDDR6, the market is about to get lots of choices from HBM3, to DDR5, to LPDDR5, even 10nm DDR4 can be utilized to swap some apps in an OS......The point is, the tech industry is not at a stagnation point, there is lots that is going to improve and change in the next 2-3 years....
