It is short. like 15 teraflops short. and those flops ARE the difference in RT/AI capabilities. Hence why teraflops are a bit misleading now, since the low bit floating point operations used in RT and AI are not equal to the 32 or 64bit floating point operations used for most standard rasterization, GPU and CPU work.
Finally! I'm part of the 1% and all it cost me an investment less than the cost of a PS5 Pro, 4 years ago.
You are dreaming if you think the PS5 Pro will have better RT than a 4070 or 3080, sorry.
Cool! Keen.
I definitely appreciate that you have to try to gauge for yourself, and that scores and opinions never paint the full picture when it comes to something as subjective as "will I enjoy this game?". for all the things that can be looked at objectively this game looks very competent (graphics, performance, bugs etc). It's just very little of that affects one's enjoyment of a game unless they're particularly bad. It's all the subjective stuff. A score is completely reduc...
"People are legitimately allowing people to decide for them if they should buy the game or not, and are making judgments, soley off of reviews"
...yes? Or do you just mean solely off the score? If so I suppose that's fair, but these games cost a fortune these days man, I'm not just going to buy them all just on a whim. I'd genuinely like some review of it, even if just from a friend. Ideally from a reviewer whose tastes align with mine.
oh NOW we can't take these reviews seriously hey? But the IGN, Kotaku and Polygon ones are all fine, right?
The freed up a bit of the expensive GPU RAM with cheap system RAM for use with the OS. no longer unified memory but that's a good thing, not like the OS needs blisteringly fast memory. They did mention that they'd freed up just enough more memory for the increase in GPU performance (or maybe that was in the leaks, but I remember hearing that)
"I mean SkillUP absolutely did not like Red Dead Redemption 2"
really? seemed like he thought it was a flawed masterpiece, which is true.
Perhaps not EVERYONE likes the status-quo like 3rd person action adventure game combat. Like if you do that's great but not everything has to be that same thing. Inquisition walked a fine line of tactical and action where you could kind of do either, depending on your mood. It wasn't as nuanced as origins but it was there. Sort of looks like that's all but sidelined here. Personally I liked the old school tactical D&D based gameplay from the first ones. The games that made Bio...
What are you upset about here? That people are into massive competitive eSports titles? Or that they hold engagement for years? Or just salty that with all the choice PC gamers often don't care about Sony or MS games that much even though they've got access to them? It's not like big GaaS games don't dominate console player counts either.
Look I thought it was going to be $100 more than the standard disk model. Whatever that price would be. I guess whether that's expensive is up for debate but I, like many others didn't think it was going to be this much more expensive and we certainly didn't know. The tech news/leaks yt vids I saw was also shocked, such as Moores Law Is Dead, and he's usually got a pretty good insider scoop into these things and even their costings.
As it stands we got $280 ...
I would say you're cherry picking your bigger visual improvement argument too. I think the jump from 1080p to 4K (checkerboard/not full res or not) was a way bigger improvement than upscaled to 4K graphics upgraded to upscaled to 4K but slightly better, but yes this part is subjective. Pure performance uplift, the objective part, is definitely in the PS4 Pros favour.
Okay. I will concede some of that is true. I stand corrected about the launch price verses now.
Let's start with 4K
Haha wot. Launch price of the PS5 was $399 if we're talking about the one without the disk drive (which is only fair if the Pro takes it away). But if you want to compare the disk model then I guess it's $499 vs $779. I don't think you know what objectively means. These aren't opinions the facts are out there according to mark cerny the PS GPU is under 50% faster. The PS4 Pro's GPU was over 100% faster. Both of them doubled storage. What facts exactly are you contesting mk...
Xbox 360, PS3, PS2 says hi. But I get what you are saying. Sort of. There's only been one (well 2. One X exists too) mid-gen updates where they've fundamentally improved things rather than making it smaller and cheaper. But perhaps you missed my point. We didn't "know" it was going to be overpriced and the only other previous data we've had suggests otherwise. The big shock at the price announcement from a vast number of commentators illustrates this.
That first line is correct. Everything else is incorrect. It is highly comparable to the PS4 Pro in almost every way except price. PS4 Pro was objectively a bigger improvement over the PS4 in terms of performance. This isn't up for debate you can take it straight out of Mark Cerny's mouth when it comes to performance uplift. It's not even close.
Did you see the Skill Up video? He played the game and pretty methodically documented why he didn't like it and what's wrong with it. Lack of choice, being treated like a baby in combat, challenges, dialogue and tone, lack of player choice, can only be the good guy, no conflict or any form of dark tone the series was known for. Also offers a probable explanation as to why people might have initially positive experience. Doesn't even touch on the DEI preachiness that also rubs a lo...
Balder's Gate 3 is a game that launched 1 year ago to 10 times the peak player count, that is almost religiously true to the old school RPG format that BioWare themselves originally laid out for that series. It doesn't hold your hand, it respects your intelligence and has just re-overtaken DA: TV for player count (Dragon Age peaked yesterday) according to the only platform that publically releases that kind of data (Steam).
I don't buy this bullshit that everyon...