One of those still has a large presence in Japan. The other has almost none. UK will always be a PlayStation nation. Xbox might get the US again. MS will never have the most sales in a generation. Power has rarely really mattered in total sales. Power/speed is negligible to consumer choice.

MS is looking to buy studio in Japan and increase their presence there

They have said that forever and even if they do. It won't matter. Japan just does not care about Xbox. I did hear a rumor Platinum rejected an offer to be bought by them. We all know the SEGA and Nintendo rumors. 360 they had a bunch of exclusive RPGs from both Tales of to new IPs from Sakaguchi and they had a huge marketing campaign in Japan for them. From big CE's to themed consoles and live events. Did very little overall.  They designed the 360 to be sleeker and appeal more to Japan. It didn't matter. A studio isn't all Japanese studios. Xbox 360 is the best selling Xbox console in Japan and it still didn't sell as well as Sega Saturn there or Wii U. About half of Wii U Japan sales. Japan belongs to PlayStation and Nintendo.

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I think you answered your own question there. The SNES won of course.

It’s more for western gamers who are obsessed with anything from japan ;)

The sony exclusives will prevail, as always. Even with more teraflops, if it is indeed more powerful in real terms when you consider all other factors, it comes down to the ambition and scope of the first party titles will be a game changer. Multiplats will be very similar.

Well honestly, ima call it out that speed only is seeming to matter because that’s the only advantage PS5 has more or less. The narrative for over 15 years was who has the most power...both sides fought over this. Now speed all of a sudden is the forefront??? Lol cmon.

Both will have crazy reduced load times compared to last gen. PS5 will just do theirs better. But ultimately it won’t have the raw power to really do what the Series X is capable of. What it can do it will do very fast but the ceiling just is under Xbox.

Plus we keep counting the TF for PS5 when it’s being overclocked where as the Series X maintains the entire time. PS5 will be struggling just to keep the 2 TF gap, the reality will be 3 standard, which is about 25%.

Call me a traditionalist, Im going with the criteria that always mattered for console specs instead of going with a narrative that was never brought up in the past.

Yes but aspects that are scalable is something third parties always take advantage on with different hardware: framerates, resolutions, texture sizes, LOD etc

From my understanding the SSD speed is a real gamechanger as it allows devs to load a larger amount of assets from the SSD to the RAM.

Lets say 1080p/60fps of a game requires 4GB/s. Therefore the 4GB needs to be loaded into the RAM so CPU/GPU do all the calculations that result in the frames being rendered on TV. We have 16 GB of RAM so we can store 4 seconds of gameplay in advance. With SSD speeds, devs can simply load only 2 seconds of gameplay at the same frame rate (8GB per second) and hence each frame can use more data.

Perhaps someone with more knowledge can explain how the SSD -> RAM -> output pipeline works in terms of data transfer for games.

All the more reason as a Japanese company I would not sell to them. Those western gamers are on PS4 and Switch anyway who want Japanese stuff.