There's no rule that says MS can't have their 52 CUs run at a higher clock ... it's probably doable quite frankly. If they do that, then the gap that already exists will grow higher. If anything I think the SSD speed stuff is overrated ... the XSX already has a very fast NVMe SSD, the hardware with the better chip pretty much always over time shows itself to be superior.
Sony knew I think MS wasn't going to let them have the better hardware again, if they went to 52 CUs, then MS simply would have spent more and so on and so on, so knowing they were beat on that front they've chosen to play up this SSD angle because it's all they got hardware wise to point to.
MS learned their lesson with XBox One and weren't going to allow Sony to have a more powerful console ever again. XBox One X being better than the PS4 Pro was a tip off. MS leans more on multiplats, and multiplats that look/play best on their console is something they need. MS has deeper pockets than Sony, Sony fans may as well forget about having better hardware, MS learned from this gen that they can't have weaker hardware and can simply outspend Sony on hardware.
Time to focus on something else.
Last edited by Soundwave - on 08 June 2020
