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1. 5870 (Sept 2009) vs 7850 (March 2012) isn't the brilliant or relevant comparison you think it is. They're from different times and based on different architectures. Of course TFLOPS will be meaningless in this instance. The only point you proved is mine, but I take it you're at work and in a rush again.
2. Developers were obviously more impressed with the PS5. You can start all sorts of conspiracy theories as to why that happened, but it's the truth. PS5 had meaningful/relevant advantages, and it's crazy to pretend otherwise at this point. Series X has advantages too, but the console apparently wasn't as efficient, and of course popularity is a factor in many cases, but it isn't "the sole" factor.
3. I'm sorry but that's ridiculous. "Lead platform" isn't magic, and power does matter. We have an entire history where more powerful unpopular consoles beat less powerful popular consoles consistently or near consistently. The last example is One X beating the PS4 Pro and crushing the base PS4. This is true even back when consoles had completely different architectures, and optimization was a nightmare that required redesigning the game from top to bottom across multiple different platforms. Though on the other hand, games didn't take long or cost a fortune to develop.
The Touryst and the couple of Microsoft games I mentioned didn't look/play better on PS5 because it was more popular. Most modern games are platform agnostic, and will not be optimized fully on any console. PS5 does have the edge in optimization, but you're overplaying this. If even 1st party games aren't adequately optimized on your hardware, your hardware is the problem.
As Kepler says, if the rumours are correct, Magnus with zero disadvantages should be better in the vast majority of cases. PS6 will only tie it in some games that hit the fps/res cap, typically indies, and might beat it in a few lazy ports like Ace Combat 7 and Black Ops 6 on the One X. But even that is unlikely, because Magnus is probably a PC, with customizable settings and all that. I'll bump this up in 2027/2028 if we're still around.
Last edited by Kyuu - on 15 October 2025
