| Kyuu said: No, what I meant was that the next Xbox being hundreds of dollars more expensive almost-guarantees that it will be superior by a decent margin, that no amount of "optimization" can put the PS6 ahead in any scenario. It would be hilarious if Xbox cost $300-$400 more than a PS6 and still end up not soundly outperforming it in the real world. PS3 was an embarrassment for the initial price (ignore backwards compatibility and its media player capabilities), but these are different times and neither Sony nor MS would dare doing some crazy Ken shit like 2006 Cell + Bluray lol. But since you mentioned it... Yes, I do believe that Sony generally is better than Microsoft at making superior hardware for the production cost (not to be confused with retail price). PS3 was the exception and a bit of a disaster. Ken Kutaragi messed up big time. Microsoft never made money from Xbox hardware, not even from the expensive One X (suggesting high production costs), but they're apparently changing this by pricing their products really high. Ironically though... If Trump's Tariff Tantrums (TTT) continue, and Microsoft doesn't tackle the problem like Sony or Nintendo, we might actually witness a situation where a $1000 would not be enough to guarantee more power than a $700 PS6. It's hard to say where we're going. |
I disagree that Sony is generally better... 4 generations:
- The Play Station 2 and Original Xbox were probably on par (also very hard to really compare as they were simply totally different architectures).
- The Xbox 360 was vastly superior (production cost, easy to develop for the same result, etc) than the Play Station 3 (you call it an exception, but it is basically the same for the Xbox One generation then...)
- The Play Station 4 was vastly superior to the Xbox One (production cost but also power); not even close.
So far, it is pretty much even.
And then you come into this generation with Sony having a HUGE market lead, which pushes everyone to develop mostly targeting the PlayStation 5 and will make better use of the hardware.
I would definitely argue that the Xbox Series X was the most expensive to produce because it is simply more powerful.
Microsoft may have underestimated how difficult it would be (if not impossible) to get back any market share from Sony, but their hardware is definitely very good this time.
