I think the PS5 will be more powerful than we expected but the BC with every PS console ever seems like fan fiction hype.
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The most important thing is that it is silent. My Pro is a rocket ship compared to the One X.
I agree on the face of things but I've never known a non-enthusiast consumer to care about the intricacies of a GPU.When consumers go buy a laptop they look for higher numbers.
If someone Google's what's better and one has higher of some number, then sure. That would matter at least to some extent.
Sony advertised a lot the PS4 being the most powerful
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I wonder with backcompat if it would be possible to play this game:
When comparing things, I maintain that the general populace only responds in any meaningful way to price, games and features.
He predicted the XSX specs he had the right active CU count and clock speeds. He doesn't seem credible though, but you also dont get that lucky when guessing the specs for a system.
The moment I can play Suikoden 1 or 2 on my latest Playstation console and not on a small handheld screen, I will cry tears of joy.
BLAST PROCESSING! That is going to be the Secret Sauce. Sony has been working with Sega on how they engineered Blast Processing back in the Genesis days and they have been secretly working on a 2020 version of Blast Processing. "Sony does what MS don't" will be the slogan during the holidays.
Full BC from PS1-PS4 is great but Sony should make those old games available on PS Store. I don't want to hunt down a copy of Taito Legends so I can play it on PS5.
Now I will be disappointed if this doesn't happen
Fanboying over a piece of plastic is pretty embarrassing.
You could read my other posts where I said they should do live stream State-of-Play variant to properly reveal the console instead of assuming the stupid conclusion possible.
For some reason I can't see this thread on the main gaming forum page? Not even on my watched thread list. I definitely don't have it ignored either.
The only way for me to get here is clicking a notification that I've been quoted.
The only way for me to get here is clicking a notification that I've been quoted.
Hardware there doesn't means PS5. That is a reference to both consoles I believe...
It seems it will be a video, but it's not an PS Meeting (I think)
you're right. The general public doesnt give a single solitary fuck about specs. Like yes, hype over power can exist, it did with the PS2 for sure, and it did to a certain extent last gen with the PS4 and Xbox at launch, but your average consumer couldn't tell you why those consoles were bigger or better, they just heard that they were. That's all hype and marketing.
I don't think that has ever been really true in video games, and I question if that is even true in general consumer products.
DS outsold Vita
Wii outsold ps3
Ps2 wasn't the most powerful console on market at the time.
Ps3 had to fight back against the 360
I think they'll have some kind of proper event with games and design reveal later this year anyway, hopefully not just three months before it comes out.
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The blog is only the main access. I'm sure a Sony will want the video to be everywhere, so YouTube is a given.
PS2 was marketed on the back of power, but it wasn't tech specs. Consumers knew PS2 was powerful, they couldn't tell you why, but it was incredibly effective. It was more "saddam Hussein is trying to buy PS2s to launch missiles" and less "GPU power is approximately X% more capable than its competitors"
Are people really that invested in how many teraflops this thing is/has/does? Who cares, honestly?
They have been making right moves and have been improving, I will give them credit for that but it's not like before where they were doing their best to get exclusive Japanese developed games like in the OG Xbox/360 days. I'll admit I'm a bit biased because their exclusives just seem to always be retreading old ground whereas I feel PS seems to know what gamers want more. It's why they won this generation. I'm in no way saying Xbox doesn't have any good exclusives, but their latest partnerships don't impress me much and I think they're gonna be in a position again where they may have the most powerful console for 3rd party games, but are lacking in unique 1st party titles.
I mean, there are literally people who's jobs depend on this metric.
You mean Remote Play for PC, Android and iOS? What is a Vita? 😢
That is if Demon's Souls Remake is a real thing to start with. :p
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That tweet is about both machines, not just the PS5. The new hardware us exciting because of the inclusion of RT, SSD and powerful CPUs.
I reckon we might see the controller but not the box, maybe even both.
Honestly what is this silliness?
What people care about is if they buy multiplatform game on the new Xbox or new Playstation. Which one is going to run better, in terms of framerate, resolution or graphical effects.
Teraflops are a metric comparing two machines that is an analogue for that.
You can't just go "teraflops don't matter"
Or "both consoles are great"
When people want to inform their purchasing decisions based upon some metric.
Like what's more important? CPU clock speed? Memory bandwidth?
ROPs? (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Render_output_unit)
The fact is one of these boxes is going to run better.
It's a question of which one, that's why people have fixated on teraflops.
Pretty much. Specs capture the enthusiasts who then spread the message, and I feel like it's amplified now because of the internet. The average consumer will likely prioritize price and games, and despite not being able to explain how or why, they might still hear which is the most powerful, so it's still a factor even if it's role is limited when compared to aforementioned price, games etc.
Schreier can clarify for himself if necessary, but that is not at all how the tweet reads.
I wonder if someone would try and reverse engineer the protocol and get it working via homebrewNo, because you see...Vita means...LIFEEE.
This. The industry tweets being quoted repeatedly are ignoring why people want a number without offering evidence to supersede the number they're trying to divert attention from. It's just vague "please be excited" and "it's great" that you'll hear from any executive no matter how weak the system ends up.
Man, I wanna do is be able to play my digital copy of FF9 on my TV, that's all I ask for.
This is, in a lot of cases, impossible.
The only way, for example, to ever play Gran Turismo 2 again on a modern system would be if it allowed you to play off the disc you already have.
A digital-only BC system will forever be handicapped due to this.
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