Virtually extinct?
dear retro guys i have a question i hope you guys can answer. We have all seen the massive strides that modern tech has made towards virtual reality, but what does that mean for the common console? the current very powerful consoles, such as the PS4 and Xbox one, can do amazing things but can we push them even harder or is this the end? Will there be a PS5 or a new Xbox, or will it just be a move to Vr? i hope you guys can give some info on this. kelvin Courtenay
we’re confident in saying that the next generation of consoles will likely focus on hitting full 4K resolution for all games, to match the current tv tech. we wouldn’t expect a wholesale move towards vr any time soon because the sales just don’t justify it. that’s not to say it’s bad – we really like Ps vr and it’s easily the biggest move towards the mainstream for vr to date. But it’s still a small market. By the end of summer 2018, there were 86 million Ps4s sold and just 3 million Ps vr headsets. that’s about half the adoption rate of the mega-cd, which most people consider to be a flop. microsoft sold 24 million Kinects to Xbox
360 owners – about a third of the console’s install base at the time – and that product line was shelved last year.