Which will prevail? Xbox Power or Playstation Speed?

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sales2099 said:

BraLoD said:

What "internet" you mean?

XB focused sites? Forums full of people that don't know what they are talking about (like here)?

Nowhere in the internet people should be able to tell you the PS5 SSD will make up for its lower specs, as we simply don't know.

Now when you have people actually working with it saying it, it might be worth taking notice, but only believe it when you see it.

As of now the gap is in XSX favor and that's undisputed.

What we are doing here is wondering how much can actually be done for games on each platform.

If the PS5 SSD is such a big deal to outweight it that will be quite surprising for me, for example, as I don't understand how much it and the console being designed around it can mean for game development.

But if it does not, discussion around how much the system and games can benefit from it is still good discusion regardless.

People are too extreme, either the PS5 sucks or the PS5 SSD is a miracle technology that makes the XSX obsolete... that's not how things work.

Can't we be excited about those consoles without needing to try to prove how much it have to take away from the other?

Reddit, Youtube but especially tech sites that aren’t governed by gaming bias. The ssd can load things faster but the graphics and processing  ceiling is simply lower then Series X. Im not a tech guy but that’s the general sentiment. 

And thats the rub. All of this is unknown until we see some games. But the Xbox also has a very fast SSD, a larger SSD, and faster max speed RAM right?

That means huge amounts of data can be dumped in to the computing environment on Xbox as well, in specific circumstances perhaps faster than on PS5. And once its there, Xbox can do a lot more with it. And importantly it can guarantee it can do a lot more with it, without having to choose between whether you can run an (already weaker) CPU at max or an (already weaker) GPU at max.

Cerny managed to convince a lot of people of the unrealised benefits of one SSD over another, versus the far-better-proven benefits (See chakkra's post) of a faster GPU. Never mind the better CPU, and the assurance they can both run at full speed all the time, as opposed to the possibility one or both of the weaker chips in the PS5 will need to be throttled.

The PS5 is undoubtedly powerful, but there is some serious wishful thinking in this thread.

Happy to have any of the assertions I have made fact checked by developers in this thread.