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Azzanation on 23 November 2020
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Hiku said:

I don't think a slight power gap has ever been a big deal. PS2 was the weakest out of the 6th gen consoles and ran circles around the competition.

People will primarily buy the systems that has most of their favorite games, or where most of their friends play, etc.
The reason why the comparisons last gen made headlines was imo because XBO commonly didn't reach the industry standard 1080p. That was bad PR, because even people who don't understand frames and resolution could look at that and think it sounds bad.

DonFerrari said:

Nope. The point is the marketing and senior leadership not the fanboys. Sony mentioned the TF of PS4 and that was it, they didn't even talk about being the strongest, they didn't even formally acknowledge Xbox at all, the most they did was showing how to share games but didn't mention that it would be different anywhere else. MS tries to address PS all the time, and they have been formally gloating.

SvennoJ said:

Last gen was more about who hit native 1080p which was more relevant before better upscaling techniques and 4K screens. The difference between native and upscaled was very noticeable on 1080p LCD start of last gen. By the end of the gen the difference was much less due to improved dynamic/temporal resolution scaling. On 4K it's far less noticeable since the pixels are a quarter of the size.

Of course frame rate dips and screen tearing are still very much an issue. VRR will solve that sort of (hopefully it won't be used as a crutch to leave the frame rate all over the place) Last gen had the right priority, no screen tear, avoid judder, dynamic resolution. I wonder why we're back to screen tearing, is VRR to blame for that? VRR is a niche of (good) 4K HDR tvs which is small subset of general 4K tvs which are still in the minority worldwide.

Fanboys continue to gloat when there plastic box out preforms the other, but when the tables turn and the other plastic box starts out performing the other, the swap of logic changes. 

Exacty what we saw with the PS4 > XB1 to XB1X > PRO to now PS5 > XSX, waiting on the switch again. Same old nonsense, same old mentality.

@SvennoJ Not sure why we have screen tearing, its shameful considering we have had Vsync for decades now. The thread always changes, last gen was 1080p, mid way it was 4k and now its 60fps. Whatever does what better, the story always changes.

Last edited by Azzanation - on 23 November 2020