Xbox Series X And PS5 Power Difference 'Quite Staggering', Hints Ex-Sony Designer

Current generation and next generation difference quite staggering. Not that interested in who's got he biggest johnson, but I would like to know some more about games and backwards compatibility.

I think when it comes down to it what we will probably see is amazing looking 1st party games on PlayStation 5, but 3rd party games looking better on Xbox.

It all comes down to games in the end

Power has historically never won a console generation. It’s what you do with it that counts. The only time it really mattered was SNES vs Mega Drive, the SNES was more powerful (it was also 2 years younger and the Mega Drive was designed to outpace the NES when it released in 1989) but ultimately it was like Optimus Prime vs Megatron; it really could go either way but whichever way it did it was awesome to watch!

@SuperNintendoMii I'm thinking the same thing. I'm not arsed about most of Sony's 1st party games, so this could be quite interesting.

@ShaiHulud I'm not a big fan of Sony's exclusives either but I'm curious about what new games the Xbox Game Studios are making. I'm also curious about how better third-party games will run on Series X because I bought an Xbox One X for that reason.

@Gamecuber The consoles wars are over, Series X is just part of the Xbox ecosystem that includes consoles, Windows PCs, cross-platform subscriptions and xCloud.

There has been rumors that PS5’s 10.2 teraflops isn’t actually 10.2 because it’s variable. I am no tech guy, so I don’t know much about this stuff.

I said it when the Xbox One was launched & was less powerful than the PS4 because of Kinect, and I’ll say it now when the XSX is more powerful than the PS5......it’s about the games.

However.....even in saying that, if Microsoft made XSX less powerful than the PS5, they would have been made fun of again and got killed in the press and by YouTubers. This was a good move by Microsoft.

Sony just keeps looking worse in every news article I read these days.

Jason Schreier is not gonna like this one bit. 😂

“Ex Sony dev”.

Sounds like sour grapes. Let’s just wait and see what happens when the games come out. We already kind of have an idea what Sony might be throwing at us, but I’m also very curious to see what Microsoft is going to give us with all of those studio acquisitions they have made in the last few years. I’m also not particularly happy that Microsoft is not releasing any Xbox series X exclusives for the first two years. I already have a 1X, so I see no need to get a series X right away.

The power difference, along with how legacy content is being handled and MS being less invasive with censorship policies might push me towards playing a majority of games on the Xbox Series X. Right now the only thing PS5 has going for it is first party exclusives but even if it wins that category by a mile the majority of games I buy are multiplat. Xbox is making all the smart moves here early as Sony does what the previous winner always does, which is make stupid decision after stupid decision heading into the next round.

@Gamer83

Which stupid decisions has Sony made that you are referring to with the PS five?

Specs this power that, what features are the two consoles offering? If the only thing I cared about were the best specs to play the highest quality games - I'd build a gaming PC.

Right now I'm leaning toward Xbox because it has the backwards compatibility for an enormous library of games right out the gate. But neither PS5 nor XboxX have shown any real new features that look interesting.

You can spout all the buzz words and numbers you like, that just doesn't impress me. Show me games that really make use of those things. Show me new features that previous consoles could not do.

@NorrinRadd
It's a combo of poor decisions leading into it and what they're doing now. The one that really annoys me (and I know some people are fine with it, that's whatever) is the moronic censorship policy that was put in place in late 2018 that has idiotically worked its way into certain games. I believe is a grey area when it comes to this topic but push comes to shove, I'm against it because it eventually effects everything. As for other decisions I think more people could agree on, the damn-near radio silence, which started after E3 2018, is not a good look especially because PlayStation had always communicated with fans well. Taking first party games, a key selling point especially when you have weaker hardware than your main competition is a bad idea. And of course the very lame idea of backwards compatibility that Sony has compared to MS.

These are all things that have annoyed people. Is it enough for Xbox to overcome PlayStation in the world wide picture? That I'm not sure of. Even in its best generation Xbox still finished behind and the gap definitely won't be closed in Japan and slim to none it will be closed by any great margin in Europe but the door has been opened for MS in North American and if it can avoid any stupid pitfalls of its own and if Sony shoots itself in the foot in regards to pricing, we could see something similar in this region to what we saw when 360 dominated PS3 and that would make up for a lot. It's going to be interesting. My guess is Sony hasn't messed up to the point where it will lose next gen but it's going to be a much, much closer race.

I think - at this point - Sony and MS should shut up and let their games do the talking.

Sony hasn't shown any gameplay footage at all for PS5 games (other than a couple of GIFs from the devs of Godfall and a few seconds frame-rate-YouTube-Butchered snippets of gameplay action), while MS has shown last gen games looking better on Series X (shocker) and an in-engine trailer for Hellblade - again lacking gameplay.

We get it, both of you you made revolutionary consoles. Stop talking, start showing.

@GunValkyrie

I love how everyone gives the Xbox crap because of all the sequels & it is just Halo, Gears, & Forza (which is not true) on the machine. But then you just named off possible Sony PS5 games and it was all sequels.

In fact, how many God Of War games are we up to now? Even Uncharted would be up to 5 if they release another one (same as Gears Of War). Oh and I think the number of Ratchet & Clank games has to be in the teens, at this point. Pfft. And who says that the new studios’ games will “pale in comparison”? We have no idea yet.

And who cares of if there no XSX “exclusives” for up to two years? You do know games can still be developed for the best specs & then scaled down, right? It’s been happening for years on something called...... a PC.

Oh and it probably happens with every third party game these days bc the Xbox One X is way more powerful than the PS4 Pro. You should be used to the concept by now.

@GunValkyrie I really hope we are lucky enough to get Fable 4. I think this gen, they have really pumped out Forza, Gears and Halo to be fair. But they went on a buying spree and the games those companies are creating are going to broaden the Xbox library in the same way Sonys developers have done for PlayStation. Don't forget, it was only with the PS3 that Sony started pumping out its own aaa games, with the PSone/PS2 they only occasionally released something that wasn't Gran Turismo, like Shadow of the Colossus

@SuperNintendoMii

Very good point. While the PS3 gets a lot of flack (and deservedly so) for being the height of Sony’s arrogance, it did start this whole “exclusives” thing from Sony. And even that took a few years to happen as my PS3 collected dust after I beat Resistance: Fall Of Man.

I get it. It’s Sony’s big thing. Hardly any of their games have multiplayer (even though Xbox games offer BOTH). Their services lacked behind Microsoft for years (and still do, in some ways). Their messaging these days (or lack there of) has been questionable, at best.

But they make great single player, exclusive games. 👍🏻 People just need to be patient & let Microsoft start rolling out their first party games from their new studios & we’ll see what happens.

And when more of Sony’s previous “exclusives” start showing up on PCs, I guess that will mean nobody will even need a PlayStation, right? I mean that’s what everyone said about Xbox.

I don't think most Sony fans will care. They love PS consoles enough for it not to matter to them. They just won't be insufferable about power the early part of next generation.

@KelticDevil

Let’s not forget that it’s taking longer than three years for one Sony exclusive to arrive on PC. And that one is there, more than likely, because it runs on the decima engine, which was used to make death stranding - a game always destined to be a PC title, so the heavy lifting has already been done.

I don’t think Sony fans will be too upset if all their exclusives have a three-year window on Sony hardware, if they even do eventually make it to PC.

And let’s be honest, nobody knows what that difference in how the games look and perform is actually going to materialize. We really just need to wait until we can see some games running on both systems to actually see what kind of difference there will be in reality. Until then, we are all just kind of pissing in the wind.