Which will prevail? Xbox Power or Playstation Speed?

[starcraft]

BraLoD said:

starcraft said:
It feels like this thread is designed to create a false equivalence? The Xbox is clearly a significantly more powerful machine.

We'll have to wait for some real world examples, but the Xbox is clearly targeting delivering extraordinary graphics with very, very small load times and rapid fast travel.

If MS can load games in 4 seconds, it is going to be irrelevant if Sony can load them in 2 seconds. This will only matter if there is some sort of major loading differential. Other than that, every comparison video online is just going to have better looking games on Xbox.

Now that is unlikely to shift the sales battle on its own due to Sony's enormous incumbent advantage, but lets not try and tear down MS for those things it has clearly committed to doing better.

What am I tearing down from MS?

False equivalence? From what? Where is it?

The only comparision I made was with SNES and MD, don't you know the SNES was stronger than the MD?

I even specially focused on saying MS has the power on its side. It's in the title as well.

Sony speed advantage is also much more than just loading a game faster, even if I never went into that, but I won't suggest you are trying to downplay it... it's rude, you know.

You can take it any way you want, I highlighted both systems advantages and asked which system will end up in the lead. 

If you want a fully focused XB thread where XB power is the only thing we are allowed to talk about, the button to create threads is right there waiting for ya.

Tearing down MS was likely a little strong, apologies.

The thread title, and statements like 'one has the power, the other has the speed', give the impression that both consoles have some sort of equal pro and con over each other. On specs alone, it is clear that is not the case. Even on stated specs the Xbox has a clear advantage. And that doesn't account for the fact that the PS5's specs are not definitive, clock speeds on both the CPU and GPU will be allowed to fall even further than their maximum state.

On the other hand, you have speed. I really like the sound of what Sony is attempting to do with the PS5's SSD. And yet, at this stage, we have no evidence that they'll be able to deliver anything in terms of gameplay that the Xbox can't. Maybe it will, maybe it won't.

The PS5 will have a lot going for it. Brand name, a very strong first party line-up, and quite likely price. Specs just aren't going to be one of those things.