As a gamer, I don't want the next gen consoles to focus on those things at all. While I do have a fast internet connection, the majority of the planet does not. So cloud gaming is not an option for most. As for me, I find it repulsive. I'm old fashined probably but I just want a console at home where I can insert a disc in or possibly a cartrage or an SD card and play mainly single player games. I also do not care about cross-play. These should not be the focus of next gen. All I want is a crazy powerful system. I'm willing to pay even $1000 if it means that we are grtting a beast of a console. I find it funny how people complain about the price of a console and manufacturers have to keep them under $400 but these same assholes pay $1000 or more every year for a new iphone. Oh I get it, you can't walk around console in hand showing off to every other asshole on the street that you got the latest shit in your hand.

Any new tech to leverage is great. Don't lose your identity with crossplay though. As a business decision there are pros and cons but that will change dependant on your position in the market also I guess.

Cross Play is at the bottom of the list of things I care about, along with cloud tech.

Cross play a basic need? Gees what is this the human rights commission?

"...says Dev"

Uh oh...another "generic dev said" headline. GamingBolt article?

*click*

YUP!

So predictable...

Please no cloud - I want to have a choice whether or not to play online.

Cross play would be exciting

Cloud gaming for consoles is happening right now and is called PSNow.
MS just selling smoke as usual, pretending they are leading the market by innovating.
To be honest I am most curious about what next gen will bring in regards VR.

Cross play is not a must anything. "Cloud" cloud anything except storage is still just nonsense, you devs can barely program for 1 cpu that has 4 cores let alone something like cloud computing, why dont you guys work on quality control measures, that will make games better than the nonsense you are suggesting.

Gamingbolt article = looool!!!

Cloud tech doesn't have the fidelity many gamer's require and appreciate. Until everyone is on fiber with solid connections, this is a just a dream outside of basic use. Ask Playstation why they started offering downloads to their PSNOW service, like Gamepass has been doing.

Crossplay for Multi-platform games this next gen should be standard. We gamers should demand it with our wallets so we can all just buy the system we prefer and play with our friends on any platform. There is really nothing to loose by doing this as long as Playstation and Xbox continue investing in talented studios for the exclusives that keep fans on their systems. The better the software the more likely people are going to own both anyway and MS already gives you an alternative with their Play Anywhere system, which works quite well if you want to just play their exclusives on PC.

MS is leading the way for backward compatibility and Sony should certainly follow suit, x86 architechure of both PS4 and Xbox should make that pretty easy for the next gen. It'll come down to a business decision over at Sony HQ.

Meanwhile, PT is getting bricked, marvel vs capcom 2 is no longer available for digital download, many more examples of why cloud is bad, if it can't run off of a disc we're going in the wrong direction. The problem is cloud computer can be used to accomplish great things but greed and red tape will likely add more paywall type issues, more logistics issues when it comes to network svc issues, etc. I want to be able to play my games in full locally. Not have an update brick a game demo I enjoy, not removing something or making it unplayable. With the Advent of 5g cellular and more ISPs offering bandwidth at Gbps speeds in the bear future it's possible we'll see games and texh taking advantage of it but I feel like when given the opportunity we always take on something bad to something good.

well along side the next xbox they will launch its full on game streaming cloud service. So yes it will in some form be integrated

A basic need? Sure....OK then. Less than half the people who play on consoles play online, and outside a few notable titles most of the PC online is centered around bigger games which don't even have any cross portability.

As far as next gen pushing cloud tech forward? Isn't the whole point of cloud tech to make the hardware irrelevant. If you need a new gen to make that happen, then that gen better bring with it a substantial upgrade to the internet. We heard at the start of this gen how cloud tech was going to push gaming forward. A few weeks shy of 5 years later, we have no major cloud tech implementation that suggests it was worth all the bluster, and we have two mid-gen consoles which supposedly make up the lack of hardware that I guess we had at the start of the generation.

No, a new gen isn't needed to push cloud tech, it's just going to be pushed, and it will be on the back of a new gen, even though its still unlikely to be that big of a deal outside of publishers pushing their wares for a connected future. MS jumped the gun at the start of this gen trying to make that happen, but MS, other console makers, and the big publishers have been trying to groom us for the connected future that they've wanted since last gen.

And that's what happens when you don't pay attention, and just accept whatever these companies put in front of you.

cross-play should be a main focus. if people are going to step into new gen with new fighting games there needs to be cross play