Smaller and slightly less powerful consoles in the future? Players prefer not to do this

Well, since most of them Budgets for 2023 have been made, all we can do is look to the future: a future that suggests that the current generation of consoles will celebrate its first three years in 2024 (and generations usually last six or seven). Ed) and also that we could see a successor for Nintendo Switch.

As their performance has increased, consoles have undoubtedly become bulkier over the years: if that’s true Xbox Series S he is a featherweight, Xbox Series – no matter how compact it may be, with its special shape designed for vertical use – it still needs its space. And we don’t even care PS5so gigantic that many had to work hard to understand where to place it on their workstation – and that too Slim model recently arrived (you can find it on Amazon) does not completely solve the problem.

So it would make sense to hope for consoles in the future have a slightly smaller bodylike a few years ago, making the compromise to be able to make one smaller jump in performance compared to the previous generation? Apparently many players would rather not do it.

The discussion this holiday comes from the populous forum of ResetEra, where a poll attempted to suggest the question to the community. From almost 500 voters only 11.8% said they would prefer smaller consoles in the futureWhile 78.2% doesn’t care about the size of the hardware, We prefer console manufacturers to focus on performance and specifications – more than just design and size.

Finally, 9.9% said they were not particularly interested in the design or performance of future consoles.

The messseemingly, It’s not really a big problem for gamers who love consoles and would rather focus on what the transition from one generation to the next offers in terms of technology.

Of course, at the time when the Cloud However, it will be interesting to know what design the PlayStation and Xbox of the future will offer: already in this generation We have seen that abandoning the optical reader is becoming more and more common for physical games (think PS5 Digital, the new Slim with pull-out player and Xbox Series S) and it remains to be seen what could have become more or less standard in another four or five years to imagine, like the next consoles could actually look like.