Next-Gen PS5 & XSX |OT| Console tEch threaD

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Why does this all seem to me like Sony is behind schedule or they have been caught with their pants down wih PS5?

- Sony CFO saying they waiting to decide the price
- Sony revealing the logo during CES
- The silence on PS5 for months at a time
- People like Jason, Zhuge et al have not leaked anything substantial regarding PS5
- Microsoft has so far revealed Series X and a trailer of a next gen game

Im not thinking doom and gloom for PS5 or Sony. Its just that there is nothing to report on PS5 apart from that wired article last year. One would think to get the console reveal out of the way so that E3 time Sony can focus on the games and services.

Its all just weird and eerily quiet from Sony and anyone in the know (insiders)

It is all very weird. Either they are behind or this is all a trick to confuse MS and to surprise the gaming world.
 
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You understand Orisis Black. I guess it comes down to who you wanna believe. I promise to tag you when the news break.
 
Yes and as you can see here, someone from ResetEra is so bullish and confident and said that the PS5 will be revealed tomorrow and they have set timers as well.


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Tonky knows nothing and has said as much. They are just trying to spice up the forum.

Essentially guess based on clues etc.
 
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Yes and as you can see here, someone from ResetEra is so bullish and confident and said that the PS5 will be revealed tomorrow and they have set timers as well.


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That guy knows nothing but it is weird to do this and risk your account though. Anyhow tomorrow he'll be gone anyways.

Tonky is full of it and an attention seeker. He'll get banned there tomorrow and here by friday assuming he's not already.
Yep. Or he'll just create another account.
 
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Yes and as you can see here, someone from ResetEra is so bullish and confident and said that the PS5 will be revealed tomorrow and they have set timers as well.


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Make no sense, usually they send invites to journos so they can make articles about it to create hype.
Yup, he'll double down with confidence, and when it doesn't happen he will disappear and make a new account.
Nope, those where old days when people had pride, nowadays it's last minute change of plans Sony pulled out.
 
No. By the time the GDC takes place the PS5 should already be presented (otherwise, something strange would be happening). The Gif did not mean that. It represented the beginning of a series of events until its release.
Yeah i really don't see Sony waiting until after GDC to release PS5 information. According to some people PS5 info will be leaked during GDC anyways so i'm sure Sony would be the one to control the message regarding specs and/or features of their new console.
There should be something this month but then again you have the 'we're not ready to reveal anything at this stage' message on the PS5 website.
 
No. By the time the GDC takes place the PS5 should already be presented (otherwise, something strange would be happening). The Gif did not mean that. It represented the beginning of a series of events until its release.
So, the new countdown is March 15? 🤔

P.S.: more like an upper limit.
 
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Knock this off. What is it with you people insulting anyone who even slightly disagrees with you? You have to be very sensitive to use an insult as a go-to or labeling anyone who disagrees with you as a shill.

These discussions are supposed to be at least somewhat respectful even if you disagree.



This is true but they've also never outright steamrolled competitors in all aspects for any gen other than PS4/XBO, which we already know was more due to MS shooting themselves in both feet and the chest.

PS1: N64 had more geometry/polygon throughput, an actual Z-buffer, faster CPU and better texturing (via RAM Expansion cart). Saturn had more raw CPU power, better 2D hardware and more RAM (both internally and with optional RAM expansion cartridge).

PS2: Gamecube had better lighting, polygon geometry output, faster CPU, more powerful GPU. Xbox had more powerful CPU and GPU, and GPU-orientated features the other systems lacked (such as bump-mapping through hardware). Dreamcast had more VRAM, deferred rendering and resolution support.

PS3: 360 had better RAM solution (unified memory), and better GPU.

..and keep in mind in each of those instances there was at least one other system that launched alongside or even before Sony's, so not all of these differences are due to competitor platforms having came out later.
I know thats why I didn't say PS5 will be stronger. But 8 or 9 TF compared to 12 by MS seems unlikely to me
 
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Yes and as you can see here, someone from ResetEra is so bullish and confident and said that the PS5 will be revealed tomorrow and they have set timers as well.


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Why would Sony say "Not quite ready" and make you sign up for news just to announce it the next day? It doesn't make sense guys.
 
Guys hear me out .

tomororw is the reveal of spec at minimum (maybe a wired article about specs ?)

the discovered website has no way to be found but rather it was found randomly by playing with ps5 words. It's not accepting any email yet.
There it mentions everything but the specs .tomorrow they tweet a wired article with specs and link to this page which will work tomorrow .

Am I crazy ? 😂
 
You understand Orisis Black. I guess it comes down to who you wanna believe. I promise to tag you when the news break.

You understand Orisis Black. I guess it comes down to who you wanna believe. I promise to tag you when the news break.

Okay

Okay

I've already said multiple times I do not care which is more powerful, that is what the PC is for. It's how you go about your posts and only see everything through a polarizing and fanatical lens that makes for easy joke fodder.
 
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Whatever they do they will just make us even thirstier for more so the torment continues
All of this feels like i've had my hands and feet bound busy getting a handjob and 5 times in a row just before coming, the handjob stops. At this point in time i'm confused, angry and an emotional wreck practically begging to come.
 
If tomorrow is 25 years then expect "something" even if it's just a fluff piece on PlayStation.

To ignore it completely and not even post a retrospective would be a total kick in the balls to their fans.
 
Tonky is probably Jim Ryan on a windup.

I agree, a not quite ready page and then announcement doesn't seem right. Although, I can't seem to register on the link, The button does nothing, maybe that's not quite ready either.
 
Based on real data, but that data is insignificant and incomplete. It would be like me saying "I'm going to have sex with this hot blonde that kept looking at me when I was at the shop", and my actual solid data consists of "she looked in my general direction. Once."

If you're going off data like this, that just leaves most people back to the 9 vs 12 talk. And that's just stupid at this point, because nobody knows.

The data we have is so incomplete, you can't accurately make any sort of viable, decent guess. Plus the data we have is from several different places and is several different things.

Don't do this to yourself man, or worse don't do it to others. There are a lot of members of Gaf, and the internet at large, who will put 2 and 2 together and get 5. They will read this as gospel, when in fact... it's just as much a guess as anybody else in this thread.

If you want hard facts? Wait for Sony and MS. But even THEN assume some of what they will say will be spin and not real.

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Chill man. Life could be worse.
 
Yeah i really don't see Sony waiting until after GDC to release PS5 information. According to some people PS5 info will be leaked during GDC anyways so i'm sure Sony would be the one to control the message regarding specs and/or features of their new console.
There should be something this month but then again you have the 'we're not ready to reveal anything at this stage' message on the PS5 website.
When you open such an important website and you have nothing to teach (apart from the logo) it is logical to put some informative message as what they have put (not as shabby as a "work in progress"). But that does not mean that they will not put info in a short space of time. Opening the web is a logical first step.
 
When you open such an important website and you have nothing to teach (apart from the logo) it is logical to put some informative message as what they have put (not as shabby as a "work in progress"). But that does not mean that they will not put info in a short space of time. Opening the web is a logical first step.
Exactly.

It's not ready TODAY, tomorrow may change ;-)
 
When you open such an important website and you have nothing to teach (apart from the logo) it is logical to put some informative message as what they have put (not as shabby as a "work in progress"). But that does not mean that they will not put info in a short space of time. Opening the web is a logical first step.
Bgs you didn't like my 11.5 tf ps5 message? Haha What am I missing ?

11.5x1.2 =13.8 gcn tf

tell me where I need to work more lol
 
If tomorrow is 25 years then expect "something" even if it's just a fluff piece on PlayStation.

To ignore it completely and not even post a retrospective would be a total kick in the balls to their fans.
25 years since what though? First reveal? Because release dates were Dec 94 in Japan and Sep 95 in US and EU.
 
If the GPU in PS4 was $200 for general consumers at the time what could Sony get for a $500 console now? Assuming they have to allocate more cost to CPU this time around
 
If the GPU in PS4 was $200 for general consumers at the time what could Sony get for a $500 console now? Assuming they have to allocate more cost to CPU this time around

You can't assume tht. After the heavy losses of ps3 in terms of hardware Sony made sure PS4 was profitable from the beginning. Fast forward totally different situation as Sony is now raking in the dough from their gaming division and now also have millions made in subscription services. They lost around 180 plus on each ps3 sold, thy lost almost nothing on PS4 sold and now can at least take a $100 loss on PS5 if thy deem it necessary because thy have the capital, psn services and software money to make up the difference.
 
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You can't assume tht. After the heavy losses of ps3 in terms of hardware Sony made sure PS4 was profitable from the beginning. Fast forward totally different situation as Sony is now raking in the dough from their gaming division and now also have millions made in subscription services. They lost around 180 plus on each ps3 sold, thy lost almost nothing on PS4 sold and now can at least take a $100 loss on PS5 if thy deem it necessary because thy have the capital, psn services and software money to make up the difference.
I was just trying to get a good estimate if, all other factors being equal, what time and being $100 more could increase the GPU. I don't disagree with anything you're saying and they could certainly take a bigger loss. But let's say they just say straight up "we want similar cost to produce vs cost ratio as PS4 and to allocate just as much percentage of that cost to GPU" What kind of GPU do you think that would land us?
 
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Old news lol

edit: nevermind it's new!

But it is old news isn't it? People said that's what it was for as soon as the pics went up. Then people quickly dismissed it as a Dev port. People speculated they would take the same ssd as the surface laptops. These would roughly be the same size for that port.
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a 500$ machine just makes sense. u got pretty much equal cost for PSU / case / mainboard etc. so if u go from 400$ to 500$ u can spend like 85-90$ on that increase on the chip. If u have a 200$ budget for the APU @ 400$ then u go up to 290$ which makes ur machine probably ~ 40% more powerfull for increasing the price of the machine by 25% ...

thats why i would love a higher price to boot. makes it overall better value and with the gen ongoing there is more on more money to be saved on those chips. which allows maybe not for 200$ machines at the end of the gen, but for 220$ machines which isnt a bad thing.
 
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a 500$ machine just makes sense. u got pretty much equal cost for PSU / case / mainboard etc. so if u go from 400$ to 500$ u can spend like 85-90$ on that increase on the chip. If u have a 200$ budget for the APU @ 400$ then u go up to 290$ which makes ur machine probably ~ 70% more powerfull for increasing the price of the machine by 25% ...

thats why i would love a higher price to boot. makes it overall better value and with the gen ongoing there is more on more money to be saved on those chips. which allows maybe not for 200$ machines at the end of the gen, but for 220$ machines which isnt a bad thing.

The only problem is that a lot more people are interested in buying a console at $400 than they are at $500... this has been 100% consistently true over decades. Consoles have to be priced to sell first and foremost.
 
Bgs you didn't like my 11.5 tf ps5 message? Haha What am I missing ?

11.5x1.2 =13.8 gcn tf

tell me where I need to work more lol
One thing to keep in mind here is that while RDNA tflops are 25% better than Polaris tflops, they are actually 50-60% more powerful than the GCN 1.0 Tahiti tflops the base x1 and ps4 were based on. So the 9.2 tflops oberon is actually 13.8 PS4 Tflops. and the 12 tflops xsex is basically 18-20 xbox one tflops.

It's why I have always believe Phil was talking about rdna tflops and so are all the PS5 is stronger insiders. no one is talking about gcn tflops when they look at the spec sheets. Phil said over 8x xbox one s which is 1.4 tflops * 8 = 11.2 tflops. Curious how he didnt say 9. because 9 * 1.4 tflops gets us to 12.6 tflops which is over their 12 tflops target.
 
I know thats why I didn't say PS5 will be stronger. But 8 or 9 TF compared to 12 by MS seems unlikely to me

It might seem unlikely, and it probably won't play out that way when all is said and done. But, it's just a scenario that could be worth considering.

Big Navi will have GDDR6 models & HBM2 models, as for consoles maybe one might slide HBM2 as secret sauce, who knows.

Samsung has Aquabolt (upper-end) and Flarebolt (lower-end) HBM2 modules at current. The upper modules give 307 GB/s on stacks of 4GB and 8GB, while the lower one gives 256 GB/s in 4GB and 8GB modules.

It's theoretically possible one could use HBM2 but that's going to be the more expensive out of the two, easily. HBM's issue has generally always been the interposer complexity. So if, say, the PS5 were using HBM2, they might save on interposer costs and complexity by just using 2x 8GB modules, preferably Aquabolt.

That said I think people are overestimating the advantages of HBM vs. GDDR6 when it comes to gaming. Most gaming code and algorithms utilize compression, and if the systems are similar in processing power (they definitely are in terms of the CPUs at least) the one with HBM and, say, a 2048-bit bus isn't going to benefit too much from that since anything 256-bit bus or larger with the GPUs these systems will likely use won't be bandwidth-starved due to the bus size, and they may not have the processing power to fully utilize the expanded bus a 2048-bit HBM2 memory pool would provide.

Just personal speculation/thoughts of course.
 
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