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Otter on 02 April 2020

Why do people keep making noise about system not being shown?

We didn't see the Xbox One or any games on it until May 2013.

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Doctor_MG on 02 April 2020
Captain_Yuri said:
There are so many problems with the comment that I am gonna just say: I doubt it...

Also we did see a launch title... It's called Godfall

https://www.godfall.com/

I don't think any Godfall footage has been from PS5. It's all been on PC. 

method114 said:

The main thing that makes me thinks this is fake is that he puts all the blame on Sony being over confident. What does that have to do with them failing at heating issues? They were so overconfident that they just failed at completely designing it and instead just netflixed and chilled? Doesn't make sense. If this is happening it's not because Sony was to overconfident it was just a huge mistake on their end.

I could see overconfidence being an issue. All of the leaked documentation shows that the initial plans were for 9.2TFLOPS. It's completely possible that they quickly boosted frequencies of the console when there were grumblings of the Series X having over 12TFLOPS of performance. When you look at the clock speeds it makes perfect sense. 2.23Ghz with the 36 CU's is 10.28TFLOPS, but it if you decrease it to 2GHz brings it exactly at that 9.21TFLOPS of performance that was originally leaked. Overclocking would definitely cause more thermal issues, especially since they are doing it for both the GPU and the CPU. Which, it's not uncommon for a manufacturer to increase clock speed to get more performance out of an unlaunched console. The Xbox One did this, as an example. 



kazuyamishima on 02 April 2020

So Sony is doomed Again??



Xxain on 02 April 2020
Doctor_MG said:
Captain_Yuri said:
There are so many problems with the comment that I am gonna just say: I doubt it...

Also we did see a launch title... It's called Godfall

https://www.godfall.com/

I don't think any Godfall footage has been from PS5. It's all been on PC. 

method114 said:

The main thing that makes me thinks this is fake is that he puts all the blame on Sony being over confident. What does that have to do with them failing at heating issues? They were so overconfident that they just failed at completely designing it and instead just netflixed and chilled? Doesn't make sense. If this is happening it's not because Sony was to overconfident it was just a huge mistake on their end.

I could see overconfidence being an issue. All of the leaked documentation shows that the initial plans were for 9.2TFLOPS. It's completely possible that they quickly boosted frequencies of the console when there were grumblings of the Series X having over 12TFLOPS of performance. When you look at the clock speeds it makes perfect sense. 2.23Ghz with the 36 CU's is 10.28TFLOPS, but it if you decrease it to 2GHz brings it exactly at that 9.21TFLOPS of performance that was originally leaked. Overclocking would definitely cause more thermal issues, especially since they are doing it for both the GPU and the CPU. Which, it's not uncommon for a manufacturer to increase clock speed to get more performance out of an unlaunched console. The Xbox One did this, as an example. 

Interesting.



Angelus on 02 April 2020

Well, whether this is credible or not, everyone's going to know for sure soon enough. It's already April, and time flies.



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method114 on 02 April 2020
Doctor_MG said:
Captain_Yuri said:
There are so many problems with the comment that I am gonna just say: I doubt it...

Also we did see a launch title... It's called Godfall

https://www.godfall.com/

I don't think any Godfall footage has been from PS5. It's all been on PC. 

method114 said:

The main thing that makes me thinks this is fake is that he puts all the blame on Sony being over confident. What does that have to do with them failing at heating issues? They were so overconfident that they just failed at completely designing it and instead just netflixed and chilled? Doesn't make sense. If this is happening it's not because Sony was to overconfident it was just a huge mistake on their end.

I could see overconfidence being an issue. All of the leaked documentation shows that the initial plans were for 9.2TFLOPS. It's completely possible that they quickly boosted frequencies of the console when there were grumblings of the Series X having over 12TFLOPS of performance. When you look at the clock speeds it makes perfect sense. 2.23Ghz with the 36 CU's is 10.28TFLOPS, but it if you decrease it to 2GHz brings it exactly at that 9.21TFLOPS of performance that was originally leaked. Overclocking would definitely cause more thermal issues, especially since they are doing it for both the GPU and the CPU. Which, it's not uncommon for a manufacturer to increase clock speed to get more performance out of an unlaunched console. The Xbox One did this, as an example. 

This was my first thought which is why I wont outright dismiss it. Here's the thing though if that's the case it seems more likely to me that Sony would hold off on the Dev talk they had claiming 10.28 TF (plenty of excuses with Cornoa going on) and correct the heating issue first. Then if they are unable to do that just release the system at 9.21 TF without the OC and heat issue resolved. Having the most powerful system has never guaranteed a win in this industry it would be silly for Sony to freak out so much about it.

In fact looking at history your more likely to lose.



Lafiel on 02 April 2020
kazuyamishima said:
So Sony is doomed Again??

it wouldn't be the start of a new gen without Sony being doomed



Xxain on 02 April 2020
trunkswd said:
Not sure it is the most credible source. You'd think Sony would have all this sorted out months ago. Either by making the PS5 itself a big bigger or some other way.

Sony has stated PS5 is on track to release this holiday.

As if they would say otherwise.



Otter on 02 April 2020
Xxain said:
trunkswd said:
Not sure it is the most credible source. You'd think Sony would have all this sorted out months ago. Either by making the PS5 itself a big bigger or some other way.

Sony has stated PS5 is on track to release this holiday.

As if they would say otherwise.

If it wasn't on track they maybe wouldn't have released the statement at all.



Teriol on 02 April 2020

There's something wrong about the ps5, too much secrets and lack of real information, this is not looking good for sony.



34 years playing games.