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Some but many are looking at the 6nm refresh thinking that is the "Pro" version when it's more likely to be a slim version coming Q3. Too many rumors and they are getting mixed up.
I get what you're saying but that's three year+ old tech at the moment. I would be interested in a ps5 pro next fall(23). Not really impressed with the gpu in the current. By 24 Xbox series x will need an update. We won't even talk about the s lol. And i would like to upgrade my xbox to that one not the current x. So I'll pick up an series x refresh in 24 and a ps5 pro or whatever they decide to call it late next year or early 24. Maybe I'll pick up a pro ready tcl screen tooAnd oh yeah, The sony fanboy's would make the ps5 pro sell out in no time since you know they are not happy about xbox being the overall most powerful at the moment. So no they would not struggle to sell them one bit.
Maybe. But they could just as easily do that by selling a PS5 or Xbox Series X with 2TB of storage... that's a much smaller investment!
A 6nm die shrink won't bring any changes to the console package. It will look the same on the outside, but it will theoretically run cooler and quieter.
Cries in Elder Scrolls and Doom.
Doom is like the only game in Bethesda catalog I care about. ES and the FPS FO games are trash and don't understand why they are popular.Cries in Elder Scrolls and Doom.
As much as I enjoyed God of War there is no way I would even consider for a second trading God of War for any Elder Scrolls or Doom.
All of those games are also on PC.Cries in Elder Scrolls and Doom.
As much as I enjoyed God of War there is no way I would even consider for a second trading God of War for any Elder Scrolls or Doom.
Good point, although I do think that emphasizes Microsoft's problem: the Xbox does well in English-speaking countries that are receptive to the company's cultural sensibilities... and falls flat most everywhere else. I'll be curious to see if Microsoft can change that with the Activision Blizzard and Bethesda deals.
I tend to think differently about it. It's not like we are talking about EA here; at least Phil Spencer since being in charge has made a lot of great gamer-centric moves with respect to the Xbox brand. Even so far as preserving the Xbox legacy of games with their investment into backwards compatibility something Sony is utterly late to the game with supporting in terms of any sort of PS3 or older support on new consoles. I know it's difficult, but Sony really lags in this regard.
360 and PS3 were supposed to launch around the same time, but Sony ran into massive issues manufacturing the Cell processor. Even after the ps3 release they couldn't source many Cells which let to shortage and scalping, much like we see now with the PS5.
It was nothing like it is now. The 360 and PS3 were only hard to get in the first couple months. Stock stabilized quickly to the point you could walk into a store and grab one off the shelf. You still can't do that with the current generation of consoles 20 months after launch.
I dont recall the PS3 having supply issues. I walked into BB and brought one near release.
The only gen 7 console I recall having a hard time finding was the Wii.
Same, only on launch day. I think the high price turned alot of people away, at least in my area it did.
Yep and that still wasn't as hard to get as a PS5 is ATM.
Really? "Full" HD televisions (1080p) had been on the market for at least 4 years prior to the launch of the Xbox 360. "Half" HD televisions (720p) had become ubiquitous long before gen 7 consoles launched.
Ah, you mean the ATSC digital broadcast conversion. I don't know how that would affect game console sales when they don't depend on the ATSC standard, though. Personally, I played on my Xbox 360 on my monitor with a VGA cable for a year before buying an HDTV, and I only bought one to upgrade my movie viewing experience with Blu-ray and HD-DVD.
Hard to compare this for that, and we don't know too much about RDNA 3 or any intended CPU improvement, but I'll bite...
That's generally the way of it. Consoles mainly punch above their weight through strong optimizations in hardware and software; specs equal to a mid-range PC can be impressive in a console simply because developers can wring every last drop of performance out of them. Well, that and you're paying $399-499 for specs that might cost you hundreds more in a PC.
I'm fine with the hip hop of the mid-gen console updates. Much better than what we had with ps3/360 where console games (ad by extension, PC) stagnated for 7 years. By the time those consoles were at end of cycle, PC GPUs had eclipsed them by four gens.
It wasn't too bad for much of that cycle, I found, but there was definitely a point later on where you could easily tell that multi-platform developers weren't eking the most out of PC hardware. The lines blurred somewhat with the PS4 and Xbox One, since many of those games still look reasonably good.