DonFerrari said:
RaptorChrist said:
I haven't been on here much lately, and have been slow to find out about some of the gaming news, but reading about all of these comparisons really makes me wonder how much of this is "console war propaganda", how much is bias, and how much is the truth.
I wish I had the ability to jump into a parallel universe where the specs were reversed to see if people latched onto some other aspect where their console was favorable.
Do people really favor a faster SSD over faster GPU/CPU? I guess that is somewhat rhetorical, as I can't expect to get honest answers out of most people. But more importantly, how many actually understand the role the SSD plays?
For an SSD, it's very fast, but that's 5.5GB per second. It's still only 1% the speed of the RAM, and far too slow to matter in the context of a single frame. With the PS5, data can be pulled in twice as quickly from the SSD and written onto RAM, but those speeds are mostly relevant for loading times. That means that looking at the raw specs of both consoles, the XSX will have "better gwafix".
It's 2020, are people just now finding out about SSDs?
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You don't need parallel world. If you were here since gen 7 time you would have seem this flip several times.
It isn't even a factor of favoring faster SSD over faster CPU/GPU (except that most devs have been much more vocal about the SSD than the small difference in the CPU/GPU).
Your source to conclusion matches, but if you want better source listen to all devs, CGI, etc.
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I don’t know if devs are really that much better of a source. Everybody has an agenda and a lot of devs have more reason to have an agenda than most. They actually have money at stake.
Personally, I don’t expect a noticeable difference between the two. Just like this gen when there was a much bigger gap, the differences are minor at best and if you weren’t running the versions side by side and pausing and zooming in, you would have a hard time telling them apart.
Next gen isn’t going to come down to the specs. It’s going to come down to the games.
