What are the most important features for the next generation of gaming consoles?

[isturbo1984]

Also people on these forums:
"I am a fanboy retard who thinks my one system is da best and everything I ever could want is on this one plastic box, and in all my comments I regurgitate false information I don't know is false because I never looked into it."

[isturbo1984]

I chose all of them. New hardware is important. and people can squawk about any one thing in particular, like exclusives. But at this point, does anyone actually want a new console completely without any of the features the op listed? I mean judging from the list, I was the only one to click "social media," but what if the PS5 completely took away pages and community sections of the individual games and the ability to create your own groups? It would seem like a lesser box. I don't want to go backwards unless it is BackCompat. The new consoles must improve upon themselves. That is most important, I think.

[AnarchyInBlack]

That's my biggest problem with consoles. Sure, there are games that will probably never reach PC, but, I can't warrant buying a console just to play them. I understand the reasons behind exclusives, but, that doesn't mean I have to agree with them.

[ciderPunk1877]

Honestly, the idea of the next console generation kind of exhausts me.

I can't wait to watch ridiculous announcement press conferences and then be subjected to countless hours of internet experts and analysts arguing about which is better..

Only to play games at a marginal difference in performance.

[Aidy]

People on this forum: I hate money-grabbing companies with their cash-grab activities like micro transactions
Also people on this forum: I love console exclusives, it means I have to buy all the consoles instead of just one

[Animusisters]

Better performance and more innovative games. The reality will probably just bring us more monitization and more restrictions what you can't do with your games.

[Artorias]

I would say Backwardscompatibility overall. It should be like XBOX X is doing it with actually improving the games to real crisp 4k. From your points i would say a large library of exclusives. I dont really understand why consoles should "close the gap" with PC when its actually PC exclusives that lack behind console exclusives in terms of gameplay/graphics. I cant think of a single PC games in the last few years that blew me away like RDR2 or Horizon. Not counting obvious shovelware like SC of course. If you mean in terms of 120HZ+. I dont think more than 60fps makes any sense. Many games even work fine at 30fps. I also hope 4k or checkerboard 4k will be the norm for next gen so they will look phenomenal on my OLED without upscaling which makes games softer.

[Aerrae]

All about the games. If they can't pull me with at least two games I REALLY REALLY want to play then forget it.

[MadMummy76]

None of the above is anything I'd want or need, or even realistic to expect, well maybe except for consistent fps. But I think devs will still aim for better graphics at 30fps rather than slightly worse at 60.

1. Streaming is useless unless they can guarantee absolutely zero latency while providing enough bandwidth to not make the game look like a youtube video. - Unrealistic Besides how long would it take for your streaming data do overtake the initial download of the game? 5 hours of gameplay maybe, if you expect HQ 4K streams.
2. I don't give a shit, in fact I don't want any connectivity. The PS4 already asking for your real name to be entered in your player profile. My name is: Why do you need that
3. Doesn't really matter, as long as you don't notice partial scaling, or dynamic resolution.
4. That's something to be striving for, but not the outlandish 240 fps that was invented by that idiot 'analyst'. Avg 60 fps with lows in the 40s and it's fine.
5. Why? No current TV set is able to go beyond 60hz as far as I know.
6. It's a console, you don't need to fine tune graphics settings, it's the devs job to make the most of it.
7. Again, that would make it a pc, consoles are supposed to be simple, not something where the average consumer needs to worry about HW upgrades
8. Good exlusives are always important, without them no console would sell. Then again I purchased consoles for 1 game
9. Don't care, consoles are AAA territory. I don't pay 500 or more for the box, to "enjoy" low production value games on it.
10. Unrealistic, a high end pc costs 5x more than a console, I'd not buy a console that costs even 2 times the current gen.

The only things what I'd want from the next console generation are not on your list:

1. Guaranteed keyboard / mouse support for games where it makes sense.
2. No artificial motion blur
3. Shorter loading times
4. No automatic updates that make you watch a progress bar for 30 minutes before you can play
5. Ultrawide support

[Imnotanybody]

Honestly? A system that works and has games I want to play. I got a ps4 for bloodborne, spider-man, and red dead 2. I hate exclusivity, but the games were good enough to make me get it and the system isn't an eventually paperweight like the xbox 1.