crissindahouse said:
It's (or was) part of MS's roadmap to have the strongest console next gen. That's why people said that and there weren't reasons to call them out. But since they didn't even mention two versions of their next console they might have changed it to only one which could also change the “our stronger version will beat PS5“ plan. But yeah, it at least was MS's plan, that's a known fact. |
Having the most powerful hardware is not only an ever moving target, but MS would be in no position to assure they have the most powerful hardware. If anything, Xbox's plan for the next gen seem pretty obvious for some time now while Sony is keeping things much more secret.
So to hit that objective they would need to know 1) the specs of the PS5 base model, 2) be sure that Sony won't have 2 SKUs available at launch (similar to what MS seems to have in mind) and finally 3) be confident that no "pro" version of the PS5 would come out some time later.
This is all marketing smoke and mirrors for now, anything can happen at this point, so there's no reason to doubt the reports that one dev kit seems more powerful than the other, especially as we have a year before release and final specs can be updated in the meantime.