If this is anywhere close to reality then it's a complete bust for MS. Why hamstrung your nextgen with a 6tf base console when you could potentially have a 12tf console as a base? Multiplat titles are gonna suffer a lot because of this, PS5's exclusives would blitz all hell and heaven pass MS' exclusive in graphics at least. Unless Sony also go brain dead by sticking to a WAY underpowered base console.
When the midgen is already promising "true 4k" and all? Yeah..nah I don't think so. The kind of PR would be disastrous if next gen S2 is going backwards like that.
This actually lands pretty close to what I was expecting at a proper price point of $399. ~7.5 TF of power with Ray Tracing, new processor, new architecture, memory stuff and other features/customizations. $399. Done. This performance points works at 1080p with RT, but it won't work well at 4K? Not sure where ML AI Res performance is yet, so that's hard to estimate.
It's not even about wining the specs war, it comes to a point when your base model just isn't powerful enough and can't push enough pixels to show the next gen effects or 4k assets on a 4k tv which will be what the mainstream using comes 2020. Come on guys by the end of 2020 no one and their grandma would want anything to do with a 1080p set
. I'm sure devs could implement a RT mode at the sacrifice of res or fps etc, it shouldn't come in the way of other things. But man there's a world of difference of designing a game with 6-7tf of power vs 12tf, one system would have enough juice to make a world twice as big for example. Yet the more powerful SKU X2 could only up res the smaller world in 4k, higher textures and af.
Indeed. Common sense test would be, why not just use Scorpio? Why bother re-releasing the same SKU.
This sounds more inline discussion about CPU and Memory size vs GPU flops. If you want a larger world your memory would be the defining feature. More AI and interactions defined by the CPU.It's not even about wining the specs war, it comes to a point when your base model just isn't powerful enough and can't push enough pixels to show the next gen effects or 4k assets on a 4k tv which will be what the mainstream using comes 2020. Come on guys by the end of 2020 no one and their grandma would want anything to do with a 1080p set
I'm sure devs could implement a RT mode at the sacrifice of res or fps etc, it shouldn't come in the way of other things. But man there's a world of difference of designing a game with 6-7tf of power vs 12tf, one system would have enough juice to make a world twice as big for example. Yet the more powerful SKU X2 could only up res the smaller world in 4k, higher textures and af.
Price is indeed a big factor, I wonder how much a 15tf X2 would cost, $599 sounds likely.
Yes. He’s definitely been wrong before. But so have a lot of folks.
Was he though ? Did Microsoft ever acknowledge there was a Jaguar in their console ? I think they always stated the CPU was a Custom AMD 8 cores CPU and nothing else.
