Consoles that aren't out for a year leave PC technology behind that is rapidly advancing
Logic
By the time any significant user install base is established for next gen consoles PC will be out of sight again in pretty much every department. Fixed platform for years versus moving continual improvement. That is simply how technology works.
SSD performance exclusively on PS5 is the only real tech advance inside either of these machines that cannot be replicated on PC right this second.
Saying that by the time these consoles hit the shelves the gap will have been narrowed there and all the other gaps will have widened e.g PC will have Zen 3 CPUs and RTX3000 graphics cards first.
That's another tier of GPU performance above Series X, and far above PS5.
PS4 and SNES are the only real comparisons that make sense there. The clear winners of being the most powerful console widely marketed globally against their particular competitors.
Most of the ones you made are either not more powerful, or comparisons of consoles that didn't sell the most/nor the most powerful in their generation versus consoles that hardly sold at all. As in losers versus losers.
In general sense the most powerful machine does not s...
Assassins creed was garbage on console
That's the reality for everyone
At least you could mitigate it on PC and fiddle custom settings. Consoles you get the crappy performance you're given and can't avoid it
As my post stated PS3 had 512MB RAM. It is the correct figure.
This was split like a PC. 256MB video RAM, and 256MB system RAM.
This was a major headache for developers who were working on PS3 games at the same time as Xbox 360. That had unified memory to allocate wherever the dev wanted. If they could fit their execution et al in 180MB then they got 300MB of video memory. More than PS3 could use. That and Microsoft reserved less memory (32MB) in the firs...
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PS3 could have done with more memory. Sony cordoned off over 100 megabytes when the machine launched. Reserved it in case they wanted to add features. Microsoft reserved just 32mb of Xbox 360's memory. They had a significant memory advantage.
Sony set about trying to address this imbalance and worked extremely hard to release more RAM to developers over the machine's life. Last I heard they squeezed it down to just under 50MB reserved. W...
Yes but as usual it seems people misunderstand the allocation of RAM for video games.
13.5GB is the total for developers, and you don't get to use all that as video memory. It's not a dedicated pool unlike a PC graphics card. You have to separate out what the CPU can have, the audio, execution and so forth.
Microsoft have split their memory system in that 10GB of it is high throughput (lets call it speed), and 6GB of it is lower speed. They called...
13.5GB, call it 10GB for video.
RDR2 on PC at 4K can swipe 9GB of video memory now and about 8GB elsewhere on the system RAM, and it's not a next gen game.
Sony did something interesting with PS4 Pro. They kept the same 8GB unified pool of memory in PS4, but added 1GB of DDR3 cheaper, slower memory to move less demanding tasks around, and free up memory for games.
If they employed this strategy with PS5 that is an immediate design win over Xbox Series X. I'm not saying they have, we'll find out tomorrow.
Even if they have the same 16GB unified GDDR6 pool of memory and say 2-4GB of DDR4 memory to work...
Every machine had a significant increase in memory speed.
Most of them larger than the difference between PS4 and Xbox Series X, which is approx 3x.
PS2's main system RAM had about 25 times the bandwidth throughput of PS1. PS2 to PS3 was 8x.
Not really.
1994 PS1 had about 3.5MB
2000 PS2 had about 40MB
2006 PS3 had 512MB
2013 PS4 had 8192MB
Whopping was going from 512MB on the PS3 (starting with about 400 available to devs, more later on) to 8GB on PS4 (with about 5.5GB for devs.) 16x capacity, 14x the availability.
2016 PS4 Pro had 9GB of RAM, 2017 Xbox One X has 12GB.
This will have only about 4GB more available to developers t...
A monster gaming PC. From 2018.
You'll end up paying $199 for those proprietary memory expansions because the games are so large 1TB will be nothing. Or when the machine launches at $549 it won't be particularly cheap itself. Let's hope enough people still have jobs and haven't been laid off so that the world is ready for a $600+ games console ecosystem.
Then there is the almost certainty it'll also be delayed due to this pandemic, so ...
If true PS5 will not be significantly slower than Xbox Series X. It'll have slower GPU performance, but by less than 10 percent. The gap would not even be noticeable at such high resolutions as 4K.
Literally one or two minor settings would be knocked down, or a tiny amount of resolution could be sacrificed for the same results. You simply would not even notice playing the same games on a TV sat on your sofa.
All hail PC. Master of gaming. The one platform to rule them all!
PC is just the king of gaming with even more jewels in that crown. All Microsoft games, all PC exclusive games, emulates Switch amazingly well, and now the very best Sony exclusives start to trickle onto the platform, likely with many more to eventually arrive.
PC has already done it first rainslacker as usual.
Console developers will still be stuck with legacy hardware if their games need to work on older platforms as is the usual scenario at a transition of multi generational titles.
There will be no rapid revolution of console games that won't work on PC. You'll just have an SSD requirement on PC games. Hardly a big deal since they are now so massively widespread on that platform. A 500GB SSD you can ...
No. If only for the fact Microsoft in particular are chained to their old consoles.
By stating they will not have exclusive games on their new machine for several years then they will all have to be designed for the old slower consoles in mind. Meaning you'll not get a game that can't also work on a slow old drive. You can't exclude slower hardware.
PC already has a significant install base of SSD users, it really won't impact that platfor...
Yeah it is treating this as if this is a new thing. Dedicated sound has been around for a long time. Many even have their own pool of memory and resources to draw from. The Super Nintendo did.
The ability of the sound processors advance like all the other processors in games consoles, so the talk of ray traced sound is interesting. But it isn't a new thing to have a dedicated sound processor.
Xbox 360 was the better machine for multiplat games. At this point long after these consoles are dead, even if you are a manic fanboy, you know this was the case.
I didn't care that Playstation 3 had higher quality cut scenes for 30 seconds when for the other 20 hours of playing the game the graphics were smoother on 360 than some of those shonky Ps3 versions. Especially early on in the system's life.
Blu ray was for movie lovers. It did not make ...
Most of it is PC in China.Consoles are a small market there.
Why on earth would you buy a PC and an Xbox? Pointless. They play the same Microsoft games, but PC gets all the PC only games too as well as more performance with a good machine.
PC + Playstation is the smart combo everyone should have. The best of all multis on PC, and all Sony's games