Guys, I've been thinking about this ever since Google announced Stadia.
Whatever performance level PS5 and Scarlett reach (10-12 TF, 20-24 GB RAM, 8c/16t Zen 2 CPU at 3.2 GHz, ultra fast SSDs and modestly capable HW accelerated raytracing —
—Will Sony and or Microsoft announce and plan for single instance (1 player) games to take advantage of multi PS5//Scarlett racks in the cloud, games that could only run on a full blade of say, 4x PS5 / 4x Scarlett.
i.e. the only way to experience Gran Turismo 7 at 8K, 120fps with raytracing. Using 8 or 16 PS5s as a showpiece and make it available to PS Plus subscribers to play over the PSN/Azure Cloud.
Again, the higher the base spec for both consoles next year the better. Counting on 10+ RDNA TF and 20 GB RAM.
Imagine the kind of Final Fantasy games Square Enix could make using multiple PS5s and Scarletts in the cloud.Look at those SE FF tech demos from 2015 or so, using 4 GTX Titan Maxwell cards. It was like 28 TFlops.
I think cloud-based teams of PS5s and Scarletts could easily surpass that benchmark, become a way to make the most awesome games of the 2020s. PCs will also scale in the cloud. Everyone wins. Devs get to do the most ambitious shit of their dreams.
It could also help to EXTEND this next gen by a few years beyond what is expected (7yr gen) so that if PS5?and Scarlett successor are not ready in 2027 or 2028, but 2029/2030 instead.
Then imagine games running on multiple mid gen upgrade PS5 Pro//Scarlett XX hardware, and games built around that going on the cloud in 2028, as we might have a long wait on 10th gen, and there will be a 10th gen traditional physical console hardware cycle. It's a question of will there be an 11gen cycle, or will the cloud and streaming have become dominant. That's a question for the 2030s, not the 2020s.
I don't see why this could not become reality by the muddle of this next decade, in 5 or 6 years from now. At least from a technical perspective.
The only thing that will determine if games that need multi-Tens of TFLOPs to run, or not, is if it makes sense from a BUSINESS perspective.