
Suffice to say, such a promise has sent the speculators into overdrive - and we wait to see how the ranks of amateur and semi-pro console designers conceptualise their messed-up imaginations.
Indeed, it seems a key part of the console development cycle that, a year or two before the reveal of a new hardware, the Internet gets flooded with crazily fanciful takes on what the next generation will look like. Here are ten of our favourites from the last ride on the console hardware merry-go-round of optimism.