| Kyuu said: Original Xbox came out almost 2 years after the PS2, and cost Microsoft billions of dollars of losses. X360 was a better designed console than PS3. No argument here. PS4 was much better than Xbox One, because the hardware made profit despite being much more powerful. The One X launching a year after PS4 Pro and selling much worse didn't stop developers from optimizing their games enough to comfortably beat it in the real world performance. Series X was an excellent console, one of the best, but I'd still give the edge to PS5 which is cheaper and easier to manufacture and develop for. Optimization is linked to multiple factors, not just popularity. Series X has some bottlenecks. Optimizing a game on a console with some disadvantages (vs the competitor) can require much more work than a console with no bottlenecks. FF14, which does seem to have been especially designed around PS5 (it was a true exclusive for a while) obviously required some extensive optimization work to get it to run as well or possibly better on Series X than PS5. That likely had to do with designing around PS5's narrow/fast GPU. If Series X had faster GPU clockrate than PS5 and didn't have split RAM speeds, optimization would have been a breeze. Magnus is reportedly faster than PS6 at EVERYTHING. Series S is garbage. Hard carried by GamePass's value, otherwise you only had to pay an extra $100 for a console that is vastly superior. |
You seem to believe that the GPU speed is making such a difference and ignore all the advantages the Series X is also offering (better CPU, more TFlop, faster memory access, etc...). At the end, it is simply about optimization for one platform, mostly, and if anything, the Series S is proving it.
As far as the Series X versus Play Station 5, having 70%+ is DEFINITELY going to have a significant impact on how engines/games are most optimized for the Play Station 5, no matter what the differences are... And many games are performing better on Series X, proving that it is definitely not just the GPU speed but optimization in general.
Let's agree to disagree then, I do not think that Sony is generally better at putting out better hardware per $ and the 4 generation showed that.
Xbox One being the worst (and by far) for Microsoft, Play Station 3 being the worst for Sony (we are still talking about $ per performance here)
