PS5's marketing feels worse than PS4, while Series X's marketing is better than Xbox One's.

[starcraft]

DonFerrari said:

starcraft said:

The issue is that you consider that a positive.

Sony have clearly decided to waive the white flag on pressing the boundaries with specs. They feel they can do this because PS4 sold so well. Their online GaaS offering is relatively poor. The PS3 was an overly-complex, hideously expensive machine that spent 2 years with no games because the PS2 sold so well.

On the other hand, Microsoft lost the current generation. This led them to:

1. Produce an immensely powerful console
2. Develop netflix-for-games at insane value
3. Put ALL their first party titles on that service day 1
4. Purchase or build half a dozen new studios.

It would not be a good thing for gamers if Sony crush Microsoft next generation. Only for Sony shareholders.

I find it funny, not positive. It will be funny that after sales starts people bragging will just go away just like start of current gen.

Nope, Sony didn't waive any white flag, actually PS5 is pushing it much more than PS4 did, even Cerny admitted on the deep dive (that on PS4 they gone full off-the-shelf for making it easy to program) this gen they are trying to make it even easier to program but with a lot more custom parts. Also the SSD and 3D Audio are really pushing all the boundaries. Perhaps you don't care or like or consider the only spec boundary that is relevant is TFlop.

PS2 was very good for customers even with it crushing competition to an ammount PS5 wouldn't be able to, and this gen was also great even with PS4 selling 3:1 against Xbox.

I haven't seen anyone on VGC bragging, the stats are what they are.

The definition of 'pushing the boundaries' has to at least consider what the boundaries are. Given the Series X is clearly significantly more powerful, the PS5 cannot be considered the boundary. You can be damn sure Cerny would have had a different focus if last week Microsoft had announced lower CPU or GPU specs, or hadn't had vapour cooling.