Pemalite said:
| Mr Puggsly said:
Your examples are bad and no upgrade has ever been as significant or shown long term potential like the X1X. Like I said before, the specs upgrade is so significant that it should be able to handle 9th gen content fairly well. Especially if 9th gen hardware is a relatively modest upgrade at $399.
I dont think X1X is the the end for the X1 brand. Frankly, Sony and MS may both blur the lines of console generation.
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The only major weakpoint that the Xbox One X has is that it's CPU is a generation or more behind what next gen will offer.
Keep in mind that Jaguar was AMD's slowest, cheapest, lowest-end CPU at a time when even AMD's highest-end CPU's were shit.
Zen is a massive improvement over Jaguar and it's cores are fairly small too.
It's hard to quantify the leap we are talking about here between Jaguar and Zen... It's like going from an OoO Atom which is Core 2 equavalent from a decade ago to a Core i5 Skylake of today.
Polaris is likely to age poorly as it's only mid-range and terribly inefficient, but it should still be pretty capable in 3+ years... It all comes down to how Microsoft intends to support Scorpio once next Gen starts, if they cut the support off at the knees like with the original Xbox... Then we will likely never see how well she can handle the next-gen transition.
Still, hope for the best, expect the worst, the industry is at it's best when all competitors are on equal footing, competition is glorious.
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Ryzen is a huge improvement over AMD's prior high end CPU's, and thats as of right now. You also have to take into account that in 3-4 years time with the normal yearly incremental improvements, Ryzen should be miles ahead of Jaguar. Even though XB and PS have been using outdated tech, they like to incorporate new features from the newest tech if possible.
If what XB has managed to achieve with Jaguar in terms of offloading and efficiency, could handle 60fps locked at 4k, and they anticipate this will be able to compete with "PS5 and next gen games", you have to wonder whether or not PS would try and immitate this hardware design for another PS4 or PS5 at 7nm. While it wouldn't be the best decision in terms of tech, it would be in terms of business input costs as well as BC.
I would hope and assume that Ryzen is the next step for consoles, but with this business and marketing structure of more powerful, yet smaller/efficient hardware being sold at cost, which needs to hit an acceptable consumer price, I can't help but wonder.
