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Intrinsic said:
  1. MS marketed the XB1X significantly more than Sony marketed the PS4Pro.

A metric fuckton more. I saw One X commercials every week for months before launch. I don't recall seeing any for the Pro's launch.

The Pro was a conservative investment in an unproven scheme (the midgen home console) and intended from the start to be a niche product. It was never meant to be a smash hit, as indicated by the continually minimal marketing and supply. The X, on the other hand, is a big investment by MS to repair some of their image and retain some customers - which also benefited from Sony acclimating people to the idea of midgen upgrades in the first place. It's still a niche product, but you wouldn't know it by how much effort and hype MS is throwing behind it. So long as they didn't fuck it up it was sure to have a good launch with Xbox gamers tired of unfavorable comparisons and starved for more power. The real test will begin next year to see what kind of legs it has.



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TallSilhouette said:
Intrinsic said:
  1. MS marketed the XB1X significantly more than Sony marketed the PS4Pro.

A metric fuckton more. I saw One X commercials every week for months before launch. I don't recall seeing any for the Pro's launch.

The Pro was a conservative investment in an unproven scheme (the midgen home console) and intended from the start to be a niche product. It was never meant to be a smash hit, as indicated by the continually minimal marketing and supply. The X, on the other hand, is a big investment by MS to repair some of their image and retain some customers - which also benefited from Sony acclimating people to the idea of midgen upgrades in the first place. It's still a niche product, but you wouldn't know it by how much effort and hype MS is throwing behind it. So long as they didn't fuck it up it was sure to have a good launch with Xbox gamers tired of unfavorable comparisons and starved for more power. The real test will begin next year to see what kind of legs it has.

And PS4Pro achieved 20% of the total PS4 sales since launch. X1X may get even higher.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

Valid points. I have used direct cable to monitor when I am not using PSVR because I suspect it increases input lag. I tried to measure with Leo Bodnar device but I was not able to get any results at all.



I can't help but wonder, if Scorpio ended up being 4.5TF to 5TF, would it have sold any better? I really think it would have at launch and overall. The gap between 1.4TF and 4.5TF would still be a larger leap than 1.8TF to 4.2TF. With first party games like Forza 7 hitting 4k/60 with plenty left over in the tank apparently, a 4.5TF-5TF console could more than likely handle that same Forza 7 4k/60, just almost maxed out.
There is also the fact that Scorpio could more than likely have launched 12-6 months sooner, and would also have cost close to $100 less. This leads me to believe that the large majority of XB1X buyers would still have bought it, as well as many more who wanted an XB but just didn't want to pay, or have $500 to spend.

The marketing could remain mostly the same thing. It would still be the worlds most powerful console, and it would technically be capable of 4k/60 as well. It would have to use checkerboarding more often than it does now, but that wouldn't matter if the XB1X wasn't required to last.
In terms of longevity, this would have hurt Scorpio, considering it wouldn't have had the grunt to last as long as the XB1X will be able to, but the question is how long will XB1X remain relevant? Will XB keep their word and eventually make the XB1X the base console and release an upgrade in another 4 years?

Whether 6TF was the better choice, depends more so on what the future plans and execution are for the XB1X.



From a hardware perspective, I think MS had the right moves and the better execution. If I want to get a console for 4k, I want it to be a 4k experience. A lot of games on x1x are running native 4k or at the very least, higher than ps4 pro and it comes with a 4k Bluray player. It also has Super Sampling and AF for every game instead of leaving it up to the developers at 1080p. That is the kind of a console that I want if I wanted a "4k" experience at least for this generation. Yea it costs more money but if I can't afford it, may as well get the cheaper one.

The problem with the x1x is the same problem with the x1... The games... Sony has more exclusive games than Xbox does while having most if not all third party games the xbox one does.

So you have one console that gives you plenty of games and some exclusives vs another console that gives you mostly the same games plus a lot more exclusives. And that's not even getting into the whole "most xbox games are playable on PC."

I think at the end of the day, they made the right call overall with the x1x. If they made the hardware close to the ps4 pro, then there wouldn't be much of a reason to get an x1x but having a hardware that is much more powerful than the ps4 pro while having a 4k bluray player... There is at least something there to give buyers a reason.

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EricHiggin said:
I can't help but wonder, if Scorpio ended up being 4.5TF to 5TF, would it have sold any better? I really think it would have at launch and overall. The gap between 1.4TF and 4.5TF would still be a larger leap than 1.8TF to 4.2TF. With first party games like Forza 7 hitting 4k/60 with plenty left over in the tank apparently, a 4.5TF-5TF console could more than likely handle that same Forza 7 4k/60, just almost maxed out.
There is also the fact that Scorpio could more than likely have launched 12-6 months sooner, and would also have cost close to $100 less. This leads me to believe that the large majority of XB1X buyers would still have bought it, as well as many more who wanted an XB but just didn't want to pay, or have $500 to spend.

The marketing could remain mostly the same thing. It would still be the worlds most powerful console, and it would technically be capable of 4k/60 as well. It would have to use checkerboarding more often than it does now, but that wouldn't matter if the XB1X wasn't required to last.
In terms of longevity, this would have hurt Scorpio, considering it wouldn't have had the grunt to last as long as the XB1X will be able to, but the question is how long will XB1X remain relevant? Will XB keep their word and eventually make the XB1X the base console and release an upgrade in another 4 years?

Whether 6TF was the better choice, depends more so on what the future plans and execution are for the XB1X.

Seems like they compromised a little on FM7 compared to 6 to get the 4k60fps



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

AsGryffynn said:

At 6TF, Microsoft basically cornered the competitors before the next generation even started in the first place. Jumping much higher after this yields negligible benefits to performance, and the cost will skyrocket afterwards. Attempting to go further might be costly, so Sony either needs to find a way to be better which precludes power, or risk MS starting with an already vast catalog and around a million or more users. 

They actually played a good hand this time. They did something that would ensure they remained the top dog one way or another once this generation ends... 

Are you just talking about the remainder of this generation and the small possibility of another mid gen console or are you suggesting that the difference between the X and 7nm next gen consoles will be negligible?



The Switch isn't even 1 TFLOPS and it's outselling the XBox One and XBox One X, selling at a similar pace as the PS4.


Let that sink in.



The wisdom of less than half a TFLOPS vs 6 TFLOPS.



d21lewis said:
Like they say in Bionic Commando for the NES: "It's too early to feel safe!"

I don't know. I'm just enjoying both. Half the time I can't even tell the difference between the two.

That's... what she said.



Intrinsic said:
AsGryffynn said:

Power... 

As a whole, the XBX seems to be doing better given the other drawbacks it suffers from, namely having a smaller presence. The fact it sold the way it did implies it's doing better per capita... 

So power seems to be the answer. Apparently, it seems some consider it less an upgrade and more of a transition console that will in essence represent MS for the next gen, since any further power boosts are negligible and would focus exclusively on HDD and processor performance. 

This is just BS. 

Its doing better because more people that own an XB1 feel the need to upgrade. Simple as that. 

At the very least thats all we can confirm from the sales so far which has been for only 1 month. The people that are buying the XB1X aren't the same people that felt $200 was too much to spend on an XB1s.

give it time.

I see your point.   But do you think those same people that you speak of would be equally willing to make the jump if it wasn't 4x more power?