Senua's Saga: Hellblade II announced for Xbox: Series X

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Pemalite said:

trunkswd said:

Nah. Mid-range again.

An 8-core Zen 2 chip is a mid-range CPU on the desktop right now... 2-4 cores are low-end, 6-8 cores are mid-range, 12-16-18 core parts are high-end and 24-32-64 cores are Enthusiast.
And by the time next-gen consoles launch, Zen 3 will be on the market with a rumored 15% IPC uplift with potentially increased clockspeeds and core counts, so that will push an 8-core Zen 2 further down the ladder to potentially the low-end part of the market.

To consign 75% of all CPUs to a single low-end bracket while you reserve two denominations for hardware comprising 0.3% of the last Steam survey doesn't strike me as a particularly efficient analytical model Pema. It's like saying you need a $1 million net worth not to be considered poor...

That being said... CPUs with boost clocks in the low 3 GHz and core clocks around half that number, as these next generation consoles are supposed to be, not to mention at least one core reserved for OS and background, yeah, that's far more mundane than your average 8-core CPU on a PC.