Your mistake is in assuming that reply was meant for you. That's why I quoted someone else. You're but one of a handful comparing BC and PSNow in this thread :)

He was continuing a conversation that he was a part of previously, if you follow the quotes back it links back to him. Regardless it's tiresome when people say things like "I wasn't talking to you" on a public forum. It's a dicussion where anyone can jump it at any time.

I wonder can we have a prediction thread for how many times we will see this (or a very similar thread) in the next 12 months? 2015-6 were the years of NX rumours and 2017 is going to be the year of "we'll have a super computer next year for $50" I would guess some people will bore of these by mid way through the year, but I'm fairly worried that by Jan 4th I'm already dreading the rest of the year on here.

As for the hardware comparisons, I'm hoping that no one here who said to wait for confirmation on specs of other systems while discussing this console based purely on rumour and a hopeful statement last year about a hopeful single number and a CGI shot of a PCB?

Just remember when it comes to the potential power of a Xbox system being spoken of by PR teams always remember these 2 images.





And keep in mind the end result of how that effected things for the end user in digital foundry videos comparing the systems power with and without cloud power raining more 360s into the X1.

Jump in any time you like. Just don't expect me to follow everything you say when I am responding to someone else :)

Saying I missed something he said... that's not just jumping in. And no, didn't miss it, just don't care as it was irrelevant to my post. Hope that helps.

Nah! You got exposed, Breh!

We did get more then a single number, they also said the memory bandwidth would be over 320GB/s. But yeah there will be a hell of a lot of speculation threads over the next 6 months. Hopefully digital foundry leaks the full Scorpio Specs sooner rather than later.

And thanks for brining the cloud back, I missed it.

Stop putting words in my mouth, DonFerrari. Not everyone who likes Xbox believes everything they say.

But please tell us your opinion about the quality and difference of playing a game native or via streaming.

Usually I would have said no. But: Sony is allowing devs to code to the hardware to a point where it seems to be a problem with exact timings when the system is not exactly behaving like it should. That is why the Pro goes *completely* in PS4 mode - it is behaving *exactly* like it has to. According to Cerny because of compatibility reasons.

This doesn't seem to be the case with Xbox - MS has also a low-level API but still is able to abstract from this level to get games to run on different hardware, like we can see on the 360 emulator and Scorpio is already said to be not only compatible with Xbo games but will also be able to run the games better (how this turns out, we will of course see when the console arrives).

So MS seems to have a software side solution while Sony seemed to "solve" the problem with changing the hardware setup on demand which actually works for the Pro BUT PS5 will not use Jaguar processors, it will be a new CPU architecture with different timings, caches and internal behavior. You can't mimic an old processor with a new processor.

With PC people actually think this happens but it doesn't - the software does the trick for you. I don't say Sony cannot solve that problem also with software in the end but the Pro and the way it behaves is a sign that this isn't easy for Sony to do and they didn't solve it for the Pro.

There is a big difference between X1 BC and PS Now.

Those differences are why nobody talks about PS Now.

Thank you for the info. I understand why you think Sony might not invest time and money into BC.