SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
i dont think i said that the ps5 will be 40% more powerful AND be a $100 cheaper. in fact just a few posts before that, i said that both consoles will be $499 and within 1 tflops of each other.whole heartedly disagree. This is totally different circumstances. The only reason xb1 was more expensive was due to kinect, so thats not a factor this time around. You also have to keep in mind the mindsets in 2013 and now in 2020.
In 2013 Sony was coming off a shocking gen where Xbox went from new-comer selling a measly 25 million units to a powerhouse with the 360 that could actually go toe to toe with Sony. They caught Sony on their heels so Sony had the mindset of needing to assert themselves. The result was a more powerful console at the same price (console only).
Bring that to 2020 where MS are the ones who were caught on their heels and got embarrassed. They are the ones who need to assert themselves and really go all out. MS would be the ones willing to take more risks this time around, its only logical.
If you are expecting Sony to pull another PS4 this gen then i honestly think you are for a rude awakening. Regardless, the PS5 will sell like hot cakes and have exclusives a lot of people like so does it REALLY matter? See, thats exactly Sony HQ’s thoughts as well. They know they can cheap out a bit and still be fine.
The PS5 will be more than capable but i sincerely believe that if you must have more power then you will have to also invest in an xbox this gen.
And even if you take out the kinect which is precisely what MS did, they were a $399 console with 1.3 tflops and ddr3 ram going up against 1.84 tflops and gddr5 ram. same price, much much worse specs.
that design was a massive fuck up on Microsoft's part. they wanted it to be a multimedia machine first and they couldnt have put a 1.84 tflops apu in with esram to compensate for the ddr3 ram they needed for the os. it was shortsighted, their priorities were all wrong, and their execs absolutely clueless thinking they would sell more consoles at a $100 more. what I am saying is that sony's pr fuck ups do not mean sony also fucked up on the hardware like Microsoft did last gen.
im sure ms is taking more risks this gen. but to imply a 9 vs 12 tflops difference at the same price means sony fucked up. Cerny who has gone on to make the fantastic vita for $250, and the very capable ps4 and pro for $399, will all of a sudden fuck up and design a 9 tflops console while MS launches the same priced console at 12. This scenario doesnt rely on MS asserting themselves and taking risks, it simply implies that sony fucked up. and im not buying that. its like those github leaks. a 2.0 ghz gpu is an extremely poor way to design a console. you have to believe cerny is a terrible engineer to believe that. i dont.
ive been saying this for a while and i still believe both consoles are using the bigger navi. both have at least 60 cus with 6 disabled. MS looks to have a gigantic chip so perhaps they went with 64-70 CUs but that doesnt mean they can increase the clocks as well. for sony to come in at 9.2 tflops, they would need 54 cus at 1.35 ghz. its plausible, but ms would need 64 CUs at 1.475 ghz to hit 12. how can MS have 15% more CUs and 10% higher clocks at the same budget?
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