Unredacted reaction to PS5's reveal, "We have a better product than Sony does" - Phil Spencer 30% GPU advantage

There are people on gaming forums who know WAY more than the average gaming executive
i was actually right

For the longest time i had this thought that people on gaming forums could run many gaming companies better than the executives do. it's actually kinda liberating and shocking to see this is true
 
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I feel sick reading that. Everything I thought about Phil was true and I wish I wasn't right.
 
So he thought that copared to PS5, Series X had:
  • Better hardware
  • Better software
  • 30% advantage on GPU performance
  • 25% memory bandwith advantage
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he is so lucky that nutella doesnt have idea or interest about what any of that means, lol
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Satya doesn't give a flying fuck 😂
joking aside this email made me feel for the guy a bit,
he seems genuinely enthusiastic and optimistic here, probably misled by the idiots he surrounded himself with, to actually believe what he wrote.
only to be repeatedly broken time and time again for years to come.
now he'll be left holding potato and trashcan vs ps5 and ps5pro
 
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Don't waste your time, know what you're dealing with:
ah yes because I want competition in gaming as sony is a juggernaut..

You can thank xbox for ps+ as sony saw how good it was for xbox and made their own (yes I'm subbed to it and will resub @ 160)

you can check my psn is you really want (same name on here) and see I was just playing ys 9 on my ps5. I'm not a fanboy like u ;)
 
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That sounds like it's broken. My disc drive doesn't make any significant sound for the majority of the time that I play a disc game.
its REALLY bad when it's installing games and when I boot up the system with a disc in its loud. I Really don't want to send it in for that i've just been buying games digitally cept these 2 from amazons sale.
 
ah yes because I want competition in gaming as sony is a juggernaut..

You can thank xbox for ps+ as sony saw how good it was for xbox and made their own (yes I'm subbed to it and will resub @ 160)

you can check my psn is you really want (same name on here) and see I was just playing ys 9 on my ps5. I'm not a fanboy like u ;)

Thank Microsoft for Sony charging for online play?!!?!!!

I'm not going to blame Microsoft for it. That was Sony's choice. I will say that there's no way Sony could have pulled off the mind f*** campaign to convince so many people that paying for online play was good. I'll give you that.
 
Thank Microsoft for Sony charging for online play?!!?!!!

I'm not going to blame Microsoft for it. That was Sony's choice. I will say that there's no way Sony could have pulled off the mind f*** campaign to convince so many people that paying for online play was good. I'll give you that.
yeah,that I don't agree with.having to pay for online is BS.

microsoft is farrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr from perfect.they got alot of problems. I just want sony to have some competition like the 360 days (nintendo will always do whatever they want they don't care)
 
I just realized why Phil has the job he has for so long at Microsoft. He's S tier when it comes to gaslighting the rest of the company leadership.
And he keeps getting away with it because non of them knows shit about gaming :messenger_tears_of_joy:
That's a pretty impressive grift, have to be honest (y)

Microsoft CEO definitely likes him there is no doubt about it. He has been signing blank cheque and approval for buying gaming companies. So he obviously trust him. But I wonder is Phil meeting the targets ? and how is able to keep such a high profile job this long without getting results :pie_neutral:
 
yeah,that I don't agree with.having to pay for online is BS.

microsoft is farrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr from perfect.they got alot of problems. I just want sony to have some competition like the 360 days (nintendo will always do whatever they want they don't care)

Sony has Nintendo and valve to worry about without Microsoft. In fact, there would really be more competition since you would have three real companies and not this extra one with an anti-competitive past and future trying to either buy the others or wipe them off the map.
 
Was there any emails about the delusions that popped up around Series S competing with PS5 visually when it was revealed?
 
Thank Microsoft for Sony charging for online play?!!?!!!

I'm not going to blame Microsoft for it. That was Sony's choice. I will say that there's no way Sony could have pulled off the mind f*** campaign to convince so many people that paying for online play was good. I'll give you that.
In other words, MS paved the way. Thus, it's thanks to MS and more so thanks to the XBL subscribers.
 
In other words, MS paved the way. Thus, it's thanks to MS and more so thanks to the XBL subscribers.

Sony was turning things around before they followed suit. Their first try was actually a digital rented game library with no requirement for online play. But they saw all that free money...

A big consideration for sony following is a fiduciary responsibility to not leave that money on the table, but they tried to be better at first and I think they could have kept trying. Maybe I'm a dreamer.

Nintendo held out for a long time, too. Of course them having mp games as a low priority had something to do with that.

I do think that if sony tried it first, they would not have got away with it. I've yet to see sony do pr/influence the way ms is capable of. After announcing xbl was paid, forums lit up with people telling you how great it was to pay for internet-based play.
 
Sony was turning things around before they followed suit. Their first try was actually a digital rented game library with no requirement for online play. But they saw all that free money...

A big consideration for sony following is a fiduciary responsibility to not leave that money on the table, but they tried to be better at first and I think they could have kept trying. Maybe I'm a dreamer.

Nintendo held out for a long time, too. Of course them having mp games as a low priority had something to do with that.

I do think that if sony tried it first, they would not have got away with it. I've yet to see sony do pr/influence the way ms is capable of. After announcing xbl was paid, forums lit up with people telling you how great it was to pay for internet-based play.
You're right, but that's basically what's being said.

Paid online mulitplayer was a dick move and they announced it in a sneaky way, but businesswise it made sense.

There's no turning back anyway, unfortunately.
 
I remember reading some quote from a Sony exec like 6-7 years ago talking about how they were focused on acquiring talent and building their first party studios and how they thought Microsoft was being very slow to catch on and that they would realize it too late.
 
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You're right, but that's basically what's being said.

Paid online mulitplayer was a dick move and they announced it in a sneaky way, but businesswise it made sense.

There's no turning back anyway, unfortunately.

Where I'm differing is that I'm avoiding "this company made that company do it", "this needs to do this so the other will do that" to distinguish the moving parts. Seems more substantive than simply "who started it".
 
Where I'm differing is that I'm avoiding "this company made that company do it", "this needs to do this so the other will do that" to distinguish the moving parts. Seems more substantive than simply "who started it".
Fair enough, I just tend to look at the cause of things.

It's not like anything's gonna change. Lol
 
Fair enough, I just tend to look at the cause of things.

It's not like anything's gonna change. Lol

Oh yeah we're fucked on that front. A $400 ps5 seems like a great deal till you add $60 over 7 years on to it. Seriously I look at mine ($500 one) and it looks more like it's cost me $680, so far.
 
Oh yeah we're fucked on that front. A $400 ps5 seems like a great deal till you add $60 over 7 years on to it. Seriously I look at mine ($500 one) and it looks more like it's cost me $680, so far.
I'm like whatever now, but I was pretty pissed.
Luckily there's f2p and you can 'share' your PS+ account, but that just makes it less bad.
 
I'm like whatever now, but I was pretty pissed.
Luckily there's f2p and you can 'share' your PS+ account, but that just makes it less bad.

I only play fg online. I'm going to try to get off the junk and play them on pc but something tells me I'm still going to see subs on sale black friday and think "buy more save more". derp.
 
Sony has Nintendo and valve to worry about without Microsoft. In fact, there would really be more competition since you would have three real companies and not this extra one with an anti-competitive past and future trying to either buy the others or wipe them off the map.
I don't think valve has any competition. Not even the epic store with it's free weekly games can stop steam/valve. nintendos not competition either for sony. Nintnedo is always a gen behind and does whatever it wants and ppl usually buy it (cept the wiiu which I sadly own)
 
it's still working, you can see that no one is allowed to make a thread about this on reee and the press doesn't call him out on his words
You werent kidding the Microsoft defense force is just crazy over there, just check out the nitendo buyout thread by the 10th page phils squad has taken over. "Well thats just business", "Sony would do it too", "Anyone would want to do that, thats just efficiency on the elite company level"..jesus at this point Microsoft could say they want to burn gaming to the ground and charge 1000$for every game and they would still cover for them.
 
You werent kidding the Microsoft defense force is just crazy over there, just check out the nitendo buyout thread by the 10th page phils squad has taken over. "Well thats just business", "Sony would do it too", "Anyone would want to do that, thats just efficiency on the elite company level"..jesus at this point Microsoft could say they want to burn gaming to the ground and charge 1000$for every game and they would still cover for them.
I don't know how they do it but it works

On reddit it's even worse, mods there delete anything that doesn't follow their narrative and ban everyone that go against it.
And they push the damage control posts to the top
 
I don't know how they do it but it works

On reddit it's even worse, mods there delete anything that doesn't follow their narrative and ban everyone that go against it.
And they push the damage control posts to the top
If so, then you know there's trouble over at MS HQ. Lol

Quelle surprise
 
I don't know how they do it but it works

On reddit it's even worse, mods there delete anything that doesn't follow their narrative and ban everyone that go against it.
And they push the damage control posts to the top
The specific thread or just reddit in general because the latter would be scary.

Man resetera for claiming to be woke and enlightened sure do love to gag on corporate balls, specifically good old american giant tech.
 
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I don't think valve has any competition. Not even the epic store with it's free weekly games can stop steam/valve. nintendos not competition either for sony. Nintnedo is always a gen behind and does whatever it wants and ppl usually buy it (cept the wiiu which I sadly own)

It's not the dramatized ps/xb battle. That is some ford vs chevy stuff. But there's enough overlap for the other three to be stealing users from each other.

The rumblings of switch 2 all point to something that is trying to keep up with contemporary ports. Kotick said they would want to get cod on switch. Console players are noticing steam deck. Sony is using steam as their entry point to pc gaming, co-mingling the communities a bit and enticing them with an alternative to an expensive new build. Also their end point as they've gone right into valve's embrace.

My friend was just putting together a so-so pc build that was adding up and he said, "shit should I just save a bunch of money and headache and get a PS5." He didn't, but he was serious.

What about the case of the multi-platform player? A kid has a switch for two years but now he's in 6th grade and prefers to play apex on the laptop. Nintendo sold a console but they lost the user anyway. I myself use PS5, switch, and steam. That switch chills there unless we're playing Zelda. Meanwhile, Steam and PS5 get money from me buying more than I can play. The PS5 also gets the online fee which is money I could have spent on steam. I have that switch but I'm not buying games and I never used it much.

I realize the competition I'm describing is not the same as the xb vs ps rivalry. But in the big picture, a lot of that is drama. The pressure on Sony will be different, but if they were slacking off, normies will absolutely cross shop with Nintendo and pc. They just want to play games.

Normies are not necessarily seeing these categories we project onto the platforms. They are more likely choose one or another simply based on what their friends use.
 
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If only they put out a decently specced Series S at $399 (read: Series X - disc drive), we wouldn't be having this conversation. Just think.

Think about the difference in leadership and decision-making.

You can absolutely guarantee Sony considered two different schema for PS5 just like this and either at the engineer level or the executive level that decision was tossed in favor of one schema one with and one without a disc drive.

The pressure on Microsoft led to bad decision-making. "We need to seriously undercut Sony on price" but in reality undercutting the PS5 Digital by 100 isn't the win anyone could think it is...

My advice for people in almost any line of work is stack good decisions on top of each other and the rest of it will probably work itself out at the end of the day. Making bad decisions for the right reasons doesn't usually work out.
 
Lmao RT in Forza oh man oh man

Because… other studios don't have RT running at 60 FPS, no sir. Always trying to act like arriving late to the party is fashionable.
Remember that golden nugget from Riky? 'Anyday now the XSS will be pushing the PS5 hard'
Sounds exactly like the horseshit Phil comes out with...........
Any day now guys VRS(tier 2) SFS etc etc
 
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