Assassin's Creed Valhalla: PS5 vs Xbox Series X - Updated NX Gamer - Update Digital Foundry

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zero129 said:

Hynad said:

If you had been here, and if you weren’t so anti-Sony and their fans, you would have noticed it.

Im not anti Sony, I love PS games and have owned every Sony console up to the PS4 before selling it and fully switching to PC.

Its just most of the time i see more Sony fanboys trow false shit such as Goopy when he was here. who has to have the best of everything the whole time, The best exclusives, the best graphics, not wanting their games on any other platforms by saying they would quite the brand etc if they do. I dont know its just Sony fans seem more entitled to me.

The power narrative and entitlement has always existed on either side, pending on the generation you are looking at.  The PS4 and X1, for example, Sony fans made a big deal about the very slight power advantage they had.  Then when the One X and Pro, the script flipped and all of a sudden it was not a big deal anymore.  Likewise the 360 fans were insufferable when it came to power differences in the PS360 generation.

You see it now from both sides as well, it is low hanging fruit.  But it is also a fickle argument that can make you look bad later on, especially in these early months of a console release.  People made a big deal about an assumption that CoD Cold War was supposedly better on PS5, just to find out the XSX actually has the advantage when DF broke it down.  Likewise in the case of Valhalla, PS5 started with the advantage.  Now after this patch the XSX has an advantage over the PS5 (before and after the PS5 was patched).  Then when DMCV comes out, when the XSX has an advantage in 3/4 modes you get people arguing over which mode is most important.

Right now the power game is not really feasible for debate.  These cross gen games were made for the lowest common denominator, and does nothing to show what these consoles can do.  The differences are so small right now because of that, and lack of optimization causes conflicting results.  There is no reason for the PS5 version to run this bad after the patch, nor for Dirt 5 to be as bad as it is on the XSX.  It is clear that they made them based on the previous generation and threw in some extra features for the new gen, but instead of optimization they expected the raw horse power to just make it work.

Give it time, both consoles will have their advantages in certain areas.  But right now, be it power or SSD speed, we will not be seeing the extent of those advantages as it is now.  In time this will be a more interesting discussion, but things as they are do little for these debates.