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goopy20 on 24 March 2020
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Intrinsic said:
goopy20 said:
think many are focusing on the SSD as that's basically what Sony's build their whole console around and which they believe will be the key to the next generation. It's also something that's a bit harder to grasp than just Tflops numbers and a lot harder to sell to the public. Maybe it will all be marketing BS in the end and we'll just see a bit faster loading times.


However, you got to admit that this (still baffles me that Sony didn't show it during the GDC presentation)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD3PfBEEYNE

Looks way more impressive than this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eBaPS3uj-A

It's probably all up to the 1st party developers to showcase both platforms strengths, though. So this could be pretty interesting, especially when all Series X exclusives will be cross gen for the first 2 years.

Yup.. I have no idea why sony went about that deep dive thing like they did. I know it was for devs, but they should have known the world would be watching.

You shouldn't build your console with one major strength, talk about said major strength for 15min, and still have people saying they don't know what it's for lol. And that Spiderman demo would have done in 20 seconds what Cerny couldn't seem to drive home in15 mins. It would show how fast the game loads, and would show the benefits of game data asset streaming.

Yeah sure was weird. Sony is usually great at marketing but they sure dropped the ball on that presentation. Not that it was bad, but they should have lead with a more consumer friendly showing first and not blow the first impression like that. In any case I'm sure Sony know what they're doing and it can mean only 2 things.

1. They cheaped out a bit on raw specs in favor of $399 or $499 launch price compared to a $599 or higher Series X

2. Prices are roughly the same but Sony believes their SSD approach was the better option.

We will see but Series X's design seems pretty straightforward so it's hard to imagine why Sony would go for such a different design if they weren't sure it would be better or just cheaper to manufacture.