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Next-gen PS5 and next Xbox speculation launch thread |OT5| - It's in RDNA
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Lets be honest here, who in ERA even wanted an Xbox Lockhart with its proposed specs anyway?
It's gonna be power vs power next gen.
It's gonna be power vs power next gen.
Hell yeah! I'm imagining Forza and Gran Turismo on next gen as I type. Mmmm mmmmm.
Along with team 2019 and team Zen 3. That last one annoyed me the most.
Damn is Sony going for $599 again? Otherwise you can't be noticeable more powerful as 4x Xbox One X
Can't help but be disappointed. I joked about it in the conferences thread, but all MS did was basically announce the PS5. It was literally everything we already knew about the PS5 without anything new to differentiate Microsoft's take. Combined with that tweet above and, well....
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Pretty much what I expected. Same amount of detail Sony gave.
- Zen 2.
- Navi.
- SSD based loading.
- Ray-tracing.
- Talking heads video with less specific specs than Scorpio because they don't know full Sony details in advance like last time.
- They are purposing the units for both retail use and streaming.
Things I wasn't expecting:
- That they would confirm RT is hardware based this early (I thought specifics wouldn't be until full spec announcements).
- I didn't realise Xbox didn't have a remote streaming thing like PS4 remote play (I could have sworn that they already did).
- Nothing on multiple Scarlet consoles - maybe they end up announcing it as a "one more thing..." announcement when they do full XB2 launch.
- Halo stuff was much, much shorter than I was expecting.
Their choice of using "the same team that made the worlds most powerful console, the same team that ______," etc etc was a smart move because it lets them imply they have most powerful hw without having to commit to the statement if they aren't sure.
- Zen 2.
- Navi.
- SSD based loading.
- Ray-tracing.
- Talking heads video with less specific specs than Scorpio because they don't know full Sony details in advance like last time.
- They are purposing the units for both retail use and streaming.
Things I wasn't expecting:
- That they would confirm RT is hardware based this early (I thought specifics wouldn't be until full spec announcements).
- I didn't realise Xbox didn't have a remote streaming thing like PS4 remote play (I could have sworn that they already did).
- Nothing on multiple Scarlet consoles - maybe they end up announcing it as a "one more thing..." announcement when they do full XB2 launch.
- Halo stuff was much, much shorter than I was expecting.
Their choice of using "the same team that made the worlds most powerful console, the same team that ______," etc etc was a smart move because it lets them imply they have most powerful hw without having to commit to the statement if they aren't sure.
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I am more focused on the CPU this time around. We can get so many cool open world games with that extra power!
From all the official info we got, both consoles might actually be very similar in performance.
Well, a year from now we will know for sure.
Well, a year from now we will know for sure.
What a great conference, and sounds like Anaconda is going to be a beast. Awesome that the confirmed hardware ray tracing.
Sony really did take the wind out of the sails of that announcement, damn. "Us too.", basically.
As someone watching this to see what next gen might realistically be I'm sorta underwhelmed, but:
1) Hardware RT? Together with those tweets from the Sony dev that 99% means both next gen manufacturers will have HW RT stuff. Excite!
2) SSD cache and near instant loading, also on both? So third parties will use it. Excite!
Yeah, it's in the secrwt dGPU.
1) Hardware RT? Together with those tweets from the Sony dev that 99% means both next gen manufacturers will have HW RT stuff. Excite!
2) SSD cache and near instant loading, also on both? So third parties will use it. Excite!
Yeah, it's in the secrwt dGPU.
"... and it eats monsters for breakfast.. "
Was this line a side blow at the PS5. Monster rumors?
Was this line a side blow at the PS5. Monster rumors?
Did I hear the Viking right? 4 Times Power of Xbox One "X"..... I need to know by what metric is that being measured because that sounds like a 24 TF machine and no one saw that coming.
LMAO!
My reaction to this conference in a Nutshell
LMAO!
Compute is HW RT technically. gonna be a long wait until we see if it actually has something like Nvidia.
Is this the same stuff Sony is using?
These consoles dont really have a secret "sauce" right? AMD is basically making the same CPU chips for them?
They confirmed Ray Tracin hardware in April for the PS5.
They had one of the biggest stages in the world with all eyes on them and they show a luke luster introduction to next gen with a trailer of cross gen halo.
Not a good first impression IMO.
Not a good first impression IMO.
Maybe Sony has some Navi secret sauce? We know they like making customizations, they'd done it for both the PS4 and Pro.
Btw, was anyone else confused when that engineer said "SSD and Solid State Drive"..... are they not the same?
They say RT Support. Not sure if that indicates a Hardware setup for it or software.
So no Zen 3, no acturis net gen AMD GPU that is coming after their still unreleased next-gen Navi GPU. And much more selective wording with regards to performance.
I am shocked.
More interestingly though, did anyone notice how one of the talking head (called it btw) said SSD and storage as if they were two different things?
I am shocked.
More interestingly though, did anyone notice how one of the talking head (called it btw) said SSD and storage as if they were two different things?
We got largely what we should have expected. Confirmation of SSD, Navi, and Zen 2. With a bonus reference to GDDR 6.
Frankly, tipping their hand with anything more would likely not have been a wise move unless they were absolutely positive Sony couldn't trump the announcement, and at this point I think nobody is certain of anything regarding their competition. So it remains a careful dance of revealing just a little bit at a time to control the message as much as possible.
I actually thought the press conference wasn't bad. I'm likely to jump in to play the Xbox One titles I missed if they can roll out just a few more titles of interest for this coming generation as well ... but no, there was no knockout blow delivered and the likelihood of doing so was always low. I hope Halo 5 delivers in the story department but frankly, it looked like a solid current generation title rather than something amazing and new. Glimpses of interesting lighting moments, perhaps, but nothing really groundbreaking.
Next year will be when we see the stakes get raised to try to sell the imminent launches. Until then we will get a very slow drip of information sufficient only to fuel pointless sniping between factions.
A lot of people were convinced by the X1X that MS are magic.
More like cross-gen Halo on a high-spec PC. Expect the big boosts to be in lighting and load times come launch.
Wait, really? It sounded like they were talking about the APU, or the whole console.
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