In addition to their profiling tools you mention, Microsoft is a 3rd-party developer for the PS5 via Mojang. Would Sony have specifically kept details of the new hardware and dev kits from Mojang to try and obscure any competitive advantage from MS as a whole?
Who knows when Mojang got devkits.
Devtools could have and most probably have been updated several times after release of the devkits.
Also MS has the world most powerful console if you look at the TF numbers.
But a monster truck has more bhp than a Tesla, but outside jumping and crushing cars or driving in an offroad environment, I think Tesla wins in other car aspects.
So as it has been discussed across this board, its the complete package that gives the correct picture, not just one off stat.
With that said, I think things are so close, that most people will not notice when playing and it will most likely stay like this for at least the first half of this gen.
Most likely closer to then end we will start seeing they diverge more, but again probably not enough for most people to notice. Which to me is the key, the boxes performance envelope is so close that its the games and other services which again will decide about the outcome.
But I also do believe, Sony and MS have their own success criterias and they do not match the avg console warriors success or win criteria.
) will will deliver better visuals, which as BRiT says is likely just going to push out a few graphics settings - higher resolution, frame rate and probably draw distances (i.e. things that are easy settings changes) and a full on nextgen patch coming sometime in the future, 2021-2022. They're also bringing full-on nextgen patches for Witcher 3.
