User Banned (3 days): platform warring over a series of posts
You know they were losing money left and right on PS3 forced them to offer free online service and games for paying subscribers, so it had those two things going for it as well as being the cheapest bluray player on the market. I'm pretty sure they'd want to avoid that.First paragraph: Not what i said......Also talking about cost. Lucky for Sony that their worst selling console is still a pretty good number ;) So they are going to be alright if the system is a bit over the "normal" price lol :D
Second Paragraph: No one said otherwise! But acting like its telling all the story instead of part of the story is weird as hell. Sure for MS he did and it is valuable information but that doesn't mean that he knows when or why Sony decided to delay PS5 and if they could have changed the system.. He said about 18months or so. Luckily people are saying the decission to delay it happend in 2017.... enough time to redesign if that actually happen :)
Third Paragraph: No i don't think so. Fear is never a good advice partner. You just need to calculate the risk involved with it and not go bath shit crazy :). But all of your assumptions are: Sony does not want to spend money and does not know how to create a system and that they are bound by a 399 system... I think both are going to be 499,99euro.
If Sony changed design in 2017 and tested in 2019 per github that doesn't look too good does it?
Sorry if I came across like saying they don't know how to create a system or that they don't want to spend money. I was stating things based on what I think would of been smart decision and common sense on target market. I still think that going RDNA2 is stupid decision for either of em not just Sony, if MS is releasing 2 systems I can see more justification there as they'll be aiming premium price.
Note how Matt also believes that one console system would look different specs wise than a higher end system in two system release strategy. So I must not be completely crazy I guess.
They can both even be €200, still doesn't mean they were working with same BOM in mind and seems like MS was working with like $50 higher bom in mind and all of that $50 could of gone to stupid RDNA2 for marginal gain.