Gadgetory

20:18 is very closely coming to an end and well we had a lot of amazing stuff come out gaming wise on the hardware end it's been a little slower now this makes sense because last year we got both the Nintendo switch and the Xbox one X and PlayStation is still riding the success of the ps4 slimmin and pro so we didn't really see anything new coming out this year but when you look at the horizon what's in the future for 2019 and even beyond that there is a lot of stuff going on first let's take a look at Nintendo predictions because unlike the other two major companies who are still waiting on doing actual next-gen systems we just got a new system with the switch just last year so they're not looking to do any kind of major new hardware or any kind of revolutionary change instead we're more likely gonna see some kind of hardware refresh now what this means for this which in particular could actually be a couple different things now there are already very hard rumors that Nintendo is working on something for sure and then it's looking to come out sometime in 2019 but how that refresh looks there's a lot of different theories now on the one hand it could just be a very simple straightforward refresh whether that's a Nintendo switch 2.0 Nintendo switch slim something like that where we could just see some light changes to it maybe an improved kickstand smaller bezels and some light improvements and maybe upgrading some features that are missing from the current switch like bluetooth support increased in the battery life or giving just a little extra power to make sure performance is a little more balanced across most games on the other heads possible that this new version of the switch could be something significantly different there's two avenues you can go with this first off there's the idea of 0.5 console which has been really popular lately I mean obviously we had that with the ps4 Pro Xbox 1x and even Nintendo did kind of a smaller scale version of that with the new 3ds and new 3ds XL so it's not that insane to see something like a new switch that supports higher resolutions maybe even doing something like 1080p and handheld instead of 720 and full-blown 4k 1 dot another possibility is that something we've seen intended to do with a lot of their handhelds is the idea of something that's significantly different in some kind of design choice whether that's making a larger version with a bigger screen that could be like the switch XL something that's smaller with a smaller screen like a switch light there's a lot of different ideas Nintendo could do to do something kind of a mixed up difference to where it's not necessarily a straight-up upgrade so everyone who already owns a switch has to buy the new thing but instead it's an alternative option for someone that wants something little different of the three companies Sony has been the most tight-lipped in regards to what they're working on for the future and that's for good reason because this generation they've pretty much consistently been on top they station predictions I mean the switch has been doing great right now but Nintendo still kind of balancing out the Wii U years and while Xbox has done a lot to improve their hardware and software the launch the Xbox one has not done it really real favors so while Playstations been doing very strong they don't really need to do much to build a pipe right now because people are still buying their products very happily now what we do know is that the next system presumably a PlayStation 5 is in the works to some degree could be very early planning stages but it's probably not gonna come out any time super soon most analysts and different rumors have placed it in kind of a three year spread being as late as 2021 or as early as the holiday season of 2019 which is possible but would be very surprising and the main reason why they would maybe push that fast is because which we'll get to in a bit Xbox is likely releasing something in 2020 so if they want to try and undercut and beat the competition that's the way to go now if they want to take their time and really something more powerful that's gonna take a while as for what form this new system might take well once again they've been pretty tight-lipped so there's a lot of different theories and rumors but nothing with any real concrete evidence on the one hand they could be focusing on just doing business as usual creating a traditional home console maybe making some major changes to it like removing a disk drive or focusing on streamable games but it's still gonna be a fairly traditional home console on the other hand a rumor that's been going around is that they could be focusing on trying to do what Nintendo has done with the switch either with the next Playstation or maybe with a new handheld considering you know the Vita and PSP didn't do super great in the US but it is a thing that Sony has a history of looking at these successful things Nintendo has done and doing their own little spin it for better or worse Microsoft has been very forward with their plans of what they want to do with the next Xbox Spock's predictions they've been teasing so many different things because like I said earlier the Xbox one did not do quite as well as they hoped even with all the updates and changes they made for the better so they really want to get people excited for what they have going on in the future and the way they've been doing that is just teasing so so many project names that it's really hard to keep up with with things like project scarlet and more recently anaconda what's interesting about this is the number of devices that might be in the works from Microsoft because Nintendo just has one new switch refresh maybe PlayStation might be working on a single new PS 5 Microsoft has as many as three different new systems in the works starting off with sometime in 2019 we might be seeing a final new Xbox one design something that instead of the 1x being the premium expensive awesome 4k system they might be releasing something that is a cheaper more affordable option to get people into their console for instance something that has the power of the 1s but it's cheaper by being smaller and not including a disk drive after that is where things get interesting because they have talked very plainly about releasing new systems as soon as 2020 a new generation of X boxes that would maybe be release with two different options something like we have right now with the 1s and 1x but instead of it being something that happened to over time it's right there right away at launch where you can spend more money to get the awesome 4k capable cool system with all the features and support well you could save money and get a cheaper stripped-down smaller version that might even have things like less power in exchange for focusing more on streamable games and that's what's really exciting I think about what Microsoft's working on is because more than the other two right now they're really trying to tackle and do something differently to change what people think of as a console they've been experimenting a lot lately with game Paz focusing on the idea of people just paying a membership fee and just getting access to all these games upfront and I think that's something they want to take into the next system something that focuses on yeah having this cool piece of hardware but it's focused more on Xbox as a service something that offers backwards compatibility with all their systems something where you just pay a fee and get access to all the brand-new games and something that focuses more on streaming them directly to the system relying on the cloud instead of having to have super expensive hardware in one unit no matter which console you're a fan of or have you balance across all three what's important is that we're in a time right now where all of them have something interesting new in the works and that is so exciting