Recent content by Gemüsepizza

Huh? There are already big performance issues on base consoles. A recent example, Assassin's Creed Odyssey: The framerate dips to 26fps on PS4, and 23fps on Xbox One. And this is with dynamic resolution which goes down as low as 1344x756 on Xbox One and 1600x900 on PS4! Even the mid-gen...

So you think an APU with an 8-core Zen 2 and a 12TF GPU part will have lower memory bandwidth available than a single Vega 64? I doubt that. Vega 64 has a memory bandwidth of 484GB/s, and Zen can peak at 50GB/s. Then you have to also consider that memory bandwidth will drop when both CPU and GPU...

Cross-gen games: 4K/60fps + higher quality effects Mid/late-gen games: 4K/60fps + much improved lighting, better assets/effects, bigger/more detailed worlds

Well they are bad examples. It's just a failed attempt to create a narrative that 60fps games are automatically not as popular as 30fps. I'm not really sure what you are trying to say here. Are you insinuating that there is a negative correlation between framerate and commercial success? The...

Oh please. Sony's big four and Cyberpunk 2077 are huge AAA single-player titles from critically acclaimed developers. BF5 is a MP focused game from a publisher which became infamous for it's greedy loot box strategies, and Rage 2 is the successor to a game which wasn't that popular, made by a AA...

Idk, I'm not sure a higher specced version makes sense... How many people would buy a device that's only 10-20% more powerful? For 25-50% more money? -> Probably not many, imo. Even PS4 Pro and Xbox One aren't that popular, and those machines have 200-350 % more power than the base machines...

You can still load the site with Chrome when you type "thisisunsafe" (without " ").

Source? I would have assumed that they have long-term contracts with mostly fixed prices, considering their memory configuration doesn't change every year and they sell millions of consoles.

But it's not just that. There is also the fact that Sony now has 80+m MAUs. By being the first on the market with a next-gen console that has BC, they can attempt to lock them in for another generation. The combination of BC and high MAU numbers is a unique situation which has never existed like...

Great news, this makes me believe even more in a 2019 launch. With Sony already working on dev tools right now, I wonder if we will hear some news about dev kits in the next coming months.

I don't really believe in VRR. It sounds good in theory, but the reality is, that there are no TVs that support VRR. Sure, future TVs will support it, but how many people will own such a TV? How many people will buy a new TV specifically because of VRR? And will all new TVs have this feature, or...

If there is a push for 60fps with next-gen, it has to be at the beginning of the generation, for base consoles. Optimizing for a specific framerate is a lot of work, one of the reasons is that you don't have as much freedom as with resolution: When something isn't native 4K it's not that...

Are you saying that, instead of releasing a PS5 for 499 in 2019, Sony should not have any new products for a few years, so that they can release a PS5 for 399 in 2021? Because that doesn't make any sense. They will always be able to reduce price after some time. And with BC and cross-gen...

I have a PS4 Pro connected to a Samsung KS8000 and played checkerboarding games like Horizon Zero: Dawn, Rise of the Tomb Raider or Witcher 3. Image quality like that is incredible and imo completely sufficient for next-gen. If I had the choice between playing those games at 2160c/60fps or at...

That's why they shouldn't use 4K for next-gen - at least not native 4K. With checkerboarding, they can get very similar quality while needing 50% less GPU power. Native 4K is a much bigger waste of GPU resources than 60fps, when your game is already 4K CB. And if it weren't for the low memory...