I see the Series X as the premium console. Its already being marketed as a console that "eats monsters for breakfast." It will probably have an entry point of at least $500. We're getting those ultra high settings right off the bat instead of a mid gen upgrade. Also consider that there could be confusion among consumers if MS has three different SKU's. IIRC, the Xbox One was phased out for the Xbox One S. Perhaps for this very reason?  

I also doubt that Project Lockhart isn't the base console. Microsoft's cross generation strategy already targets the Xbox One S until at least 2021. Project Lockhart is poised to be MS cheapest entry into next gen, making it likely the majority of their next gen userbase are Lockhart owners, and any potential bottlenecks of Lockhart need to be prioritized in terms of development. Lockhart is rumored to have a weaker GPU, so maybe they have a weaker CPU, since these units will include an SSD & MS will need to cut cost somewhere. 

I have to say you were right on spot (Intrinsic) when you were calculating an equivalent of 15 Teraflops or even more for PS5 years ago considering architecture changes. If 8 TF of NAVI is equivalent to 13 for VEGA 64, then let say 10 teraflops of PS5 would be 16,25 on the old architecture.  So a little better than you thought it would be. 

Still The XBOX is faster. I think It will be equivalent to a RTX 2080 while the PS5 is more like something in between a RTX 2070-RTX 2070 super. 

Lol yeah, I was right back then, was also right about them using SSDs... though I wasn't expecting 5.5GB/s. And yes I am fully aware that the XSX is just flat out faster. I am super stoked thought about how close and powerful they both are. I am kinda bummed out that the greatest strength of the PS5 is something that we are likely not to see 3rd party devs fully take advantage of, but well... Thank God for Sony worldwide studios.

You were one of the pioneers of SSD talk if I remember correctly. I was a little skeptical of full blown SSD, but a smaller amount however on board seemed within reason back then. I did not think we'd see NVMe, at the speeds they are claiming, with around 1TB. User expandable third party NVMe as well? What? Out of all the ways I thought SNY would flex, this really caught me off guard.

I am really happy personally. I mentioned back then that I would much prefer they focus on super quick loading speeds, even if that meant a slightly weaker CPU and GPU. Slightly weaker GPU if they had to choose between either. Seems like that's darn near exactly what they're offering.

I'm going to have a hard time holding off for a couple years like I usually do this time around. I wasn't the biggest SIE fan until PS4, but after playing TLOURe and the Uncharted Collection, and seeing what they've done on PS4 with HZD, GOW, etc, the potential for PS5 has me drooling uncontrollably.

thats your performance benchmark witcher3? a 5 year old game! why dont you check out the performance in recently released titles with Dx12 or vulcan support. just a youtube search will give you a clear picture where 5700XT stands in comparison to 2070 super. 5700xt only lags behind in dx11 games but even that performance gap has been significantly closed up by AMD driver updates. 

if you dont want to search here is the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmlRzGhdWdM

if you dont wanna watch so ill sum it up for you Battlefield v, Shadow of Tomb raider, Exodus, Star wars, world war z all have better or equally good performance on similar settings to 2070 super. AMD updates have significantly improved their cards performances, and if you undervolt and overclock 5700xt (PS5) it convincingly beats 2070 super

and this is without even taking RDNA2 improvements into consideration.

I see the Series X as the premium console. Its already being marketed as a console that "eats monsters for breakfast." It will probably have an entry point of at least $500. We're getting those ultra high settings right off the bat instead of a mid gen upgrade. Also consider that there could be confusion among consumers if MS has three different SKU's. IIRC, the Xbox One was phased out for the Xbox One S. Perhaps for this very reason?  

I also doubt that Project Lockhart isn't the base console. Microsoft's cross generation strategy already targets the Xbox One S until at least 2021. Project Lockhart is poised to be MS cheapest entry into next gen, making it likely the majority of their next gen userbase are Lockhart owners, and any potential bottlenecks of Lockhart need to be prioritized in terms of development. Lockhart is rumored to have a weaker GPU, so maybe they have a weaker CPU, since these units will include an SSD & MS will need to cut cost somewhere. 

Lockhart could also have no disc drive. While it doesn't cut a lot of the cost it does mean every game will be sold digitally and with that more money to Microsoft with each game sold. 

One of the best things about consoles is the ability to own physical games. I really feel like Xbox is the fifth column of consoles. Almost everything they do is to the detriment of consoles in the long run. Lockheart not having a disc drive, and popularizing digital purchases even further would weaken consoles as a whole. What's next, Denuvo on Xbox? 

If you are going to go digital, why not just buy all your multiplats on PC? The game would run better, and you'd get slightly cheaper prices from PC storefronts than from console digital stores. At this rate, I only get multiplats on console if...

 Game has denuvo on PC. 

or 

Game is cheaper at launch on consoles

or

It's a good game for Switch