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Xbox Scorpio.
Credit: microsoft
We're still in the market today, but make no mistake: the next-gen console wars officially kicked off yesterday, when Sony officially unveiled the PS5 – called only "next-generation", but let's just call it PS5 – via an exclusive piece in Wired. The new machine will be backwards compatible and will feature SSD and a GPU built off of AMD's Ryzen line. We do not know the price, we do not know anything about the launch, we do not know anything about how to subscribe to our services. The PS5 is now a real thing that we are not pure speculation.
For the most part, nothing we know about the PS5 is hugely surprising. That was Sony's tactic with the PS4: a generic release that does not change the core concept, with a few new features to boot. So far we're here, but there's a lot of questions to be asked going forward. The biggest part of these generational upgrades, however, has gotten to the SSD, or Solid State Drive. This will allow the PS5 to load games much more quickly than a traditional HDD, as anyone used an SSD on PC can tell you. The Wired article features a demo using & nbsp;Spiderman, which is only so useful because it only shows how fast PS5 can load a PS4 game. But I get the feeling that when this machine hits the market, the SSD and reduced loading times are going to be the most noticeable difference.
This is the hardware feature that Microsoft will have to match in its high-end next-generation Xbox. The company is likely going to make two new Xboxes, one for budget consumers and one for the high-end gamer that would normally buy hardware launch. We're talking about the high-end one here, which will be the most direct competition for the PS5. And now that Sony has set the bar, it's going to be very noticeable if that thing does not have an SSD. That would mean that both of these machines would be loading the same third-party games at wildly different rates, leading to the same sort of unfavorable comparisons that dogged the Xbox One earlier in the generation with resolution and frame rate.
We do not know anything about Microsoft's machines, so it's entirely possible that the high-end machine will have an SSD, and here's hoping. Without that, Microsoft would be likely to compete, something that would, of course, be easier to do without expensive.
This is one of the major things I'll be watching for when Microsoft unveils its new machine (s). Whatever decision is made, this is so, I would not expect anyone to scramble and change things around. But this is a big one. Of course, Microsoft could always come out ahead via its budget machine, but that's a different kettle of fish.
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Xbox Scorpio.
Credit: microsoft
We're still in the market today, but make no mistake: the next-gen console wars officially kicked off yesterday, when Sony officially unveiled the PS5 – called only "next-generation", but let's just call it PS5 – via an exclusive piece in Wired. The new machine will be backwards compatible and will feature SSD and a GPU built off of AMD's Ryzen line. We do not know the price, we do not know anything about the launch, we do not know anything about how to subscribe to our services. The PS5 is now a real thing that we are not pure speculation.
For the most part, nothing we know about the PS5 is hugely surprising. That was Sony's tactic with the PS4: a generic release that does not change the core concept, with a few new features to boot. So far we're here, but there's a lot of questions to be asked going forward. The biggest part of these generational upgrades, however, has gotten to the SSD, or Solid State Drive. This will allow the PS5 to load games much more quickly than a traditional HDD, as anyone used an SSD on PC can tell you. The Wired article features a demo using Spiderman, which is only so useful because it only shows how fast PS5 can load a PS4 game. But I get the feeling that when this machine hits the market, the SSD and reduced loading times are going to be the most noticeable difference.
This is the hardware feature that Microsoft will have to match in its high-end next-generation Xbox. The company is likely going to make two new Xboxes, one for budget consumers and one for the high-end gamer that would normally buy hardware launch. We're talking about the high-end one here, which will be the most direct competition for the PS5. And now that Sony has set the bar, it's going to be very noticeable if that thing does not have an SSD. That would mean that both of these machines would be loading the same third-party games at wildly different rates, leading to the same sort of unfavorable comparisons that dogged the Xbox One earlier in the generation with resolution and frame rate.
We do not know anything about Microsoft's machines, so it's entirely possible that the high-end machine will have an SSD, and here's hoping. Without that, Microsoft would be likely to compete, something that would, of course, be easier to do without expensive.
This is one of the major things I'll be watching for when Microsoft unveils its new machine (s). Whatever decision is made, this is so, I would not expect anyone to scramble and change things around. But this is a big one. Of course, Microsoft could always come out ahead via its budget machine, but that's a different kettle of fish.