CastorTroy wrote: » Skimmed through the video and I choose to believe they just announced acquiring the Dead Space IP.
[Deleted User] wrote: » The launch Xbox One was a joke because it was both more expensive and less powerful. The worst of both worlds! I think this will be more straight-forward. The Series X is clearly more powerful and you would have to assume will be $100-200 more than PS5. I think Sony will do a PS5 Pro 2-3 years after launch. PS4 Pro came 3 years after launch but if there's a perception that PS5 is underpowered they might rush a Pro system. The rumoured cheaper Xbox is the wildcard. Some say it's cancelled, some say they just went quiet on it. If they came out with a $300 system that plays next-gen games at 1080p they would sell a lot of units at xmas. An awful lot of people just want to play Fifa and Cod as cheap as possible. If Microsoft had both the cheapest system and the most powerful, that would be pretty significant.
J. Marston wrote: » If you've always got an Xbox, you'll get the Xbox. If you've always got a Playstation, you'll get the Playstation. If you're on the fence, the only thing that matters is price. No person is looking those consoles and thinking "Hmm, teraflops though..." because the difference in performance is like splitting hairs.
TitianGerm wrote: » Whynotboth.gif
sugarman wrote: » Exclusives. That's what separated the XB1 & PS4 for most part of their life as they were close enough on performance and price at launch until both consoles introduction revisions and price cuts 3-4 years later.
FAILSAFE 00 wrote: » Its disappointing that the PS5 doesn't have full backward capability with PS4.
Deleted User wrote: » They were not close in price or performance at launch. Xbox One was significantly less powerful than PS4 and $100 more. It took them 6 months to release a $399 model without kinect. They also massively bungled their pre-launch. These factors were key in PS4s success (or Xbone's failure). The superior library of exclusives became a factor later on, it was just the nail in the coffin rather than the thing that killed Xbox One.
“reddit” wrote: Yeah, I'm going to try to inject some much-needed clarity into this thread. Here's the actual part where he talks about backwards compatibility. The very first thing he says is "The Playstation 5 GPU is backwards compatible with Playstation 4." He goes on to say that the way they achieved backwards compatibility is by putting PS4 logic into the PS5 chip. It seems like PS4 (and PS4 Pro) games can use a "legacy mode" to play exactly like they would on their native system. This sounds to me like every PS4 game will be playable in legacy mode, because the PS5 basically switches to behave like a PS4. No upgrades, but the games are playable. Then he talks about playing PS4 games at "boosted frequencies" and the boost is "massive." This is where the "top 100 games" comment comes in. I believe he's referring to playing games in "boosted mode" rather than legacy mode, and most of the 100 games they tested will be playable like this on launch. Even if that's not true, he's specifically talking about games they've tested, not which games will run. Nobody should be freaking out right now saying PS5 is only backward compatible with 100 games. The language is a little bit ambiguous, so I think we'll have to wait for a real announcement about backward compatibility features to be sure.”
Homelander wrote: » Bang on. It wasn't the power, it was the misjudging of the market and their belief that Kinect and the integrated options of the Xbox would prevail, which proved a colossal mistake. The Xbox was beating the PS3 for a long time and eventually both broke even roughly speaking, but MS's terrible gamble on the Xbox One as a "family home device" cost them dearly, now they're dramatically behind. They did get back some goodwill with the One X being the most powerful home console, but raw power will only take you so far. It's the exclusives that seal the deal, hence why the PS5 is still in the absolute best position, regardless of how powerful, or lacking in power, it actually is. Microsoft need an absolute raft of "killer apps" to claw their way back to parity with Sony, let alone be the better console. I say that as an Xbox/PS4 owner, and I prefer the Xbox, but they really dropped the ball last time around and I hope they learn from that, focusing on brute power is a minuscule part of the debate. N64 was more powerful than PS1 (though I know cartridge played a role there, but case in point again), Gamecube/Xbox more powerful then PS2, etc. Raw power doesn't ever amount to anything in console wars.
...the people I've been talking to over the past few months and the past couple years who are actually working on the PlayStation have pretty much unanimously all said: This thing is a beast. This thing is one of the coolest pieces of hardware that we've ever seen, we've ever used before. There are so many things here that are revolutionary, so many behind-the-scenes tools and features, APIs, and all sorts of other stuff that is way beyond my scope of comprehension. ...So let me be clear. So what I'm hearing from people actually working on these things is that the Xbox is not significantly more powerful than the PlayStation, despite this teraflops number, and that the teraflops -- This is going to lead to weeks and weeks of talk about how Xbox is the most powerful console, and so on. Meanwhile I'm getting texts even today from developers being like this is such a shame -- the PS5 is superior in all these other ways that they're not able to message right now or can't talk about right now. I heard from at least three different people in the past couple of hours since the Cerny thing being like, wow, the PS5 is actually the more superior piece of hardware in a lot of different ways, despite what we were seeing in these spec sheets.
Potential-Monke wrote: » Exactly. I'll never understand the want to have BC. Yeah, it's great. But I'm buying a new console, for new games, or at the very least games remastered or upgraded for the new console. Even with PS Now, I haven't touched anything pre-PS4. Makes no sense to me tbh. Faster/No load time, improvements to the small graphical details that add to the experience, as I think the actual quality is already very high, it's the world around characters that need focus this time, imo. Either way, I'll be getting the PS5 at launch. I've had all PS's, and missed out on the OG Xbox and One.
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