not ging to go off on people from either side..
but the Concept of Sony being bamboozled by MS and caught on the wrong foot is abstruse to me...
they produced with the PS4 a System wich not only was miles ahead from the competition in terms of tech for emidiate usage on games. No they even prepared the System to be VR ready at a time nobody realy thought about it. Palmer Luckey did start in 2011 with his research.
that was when Sony already was planning to bring the funktionality to PS4.
And some expect the same Team to produce a fuckup even when they came out of this Gen with a sales advantage of more than 2:1 .
The higher Levels at Sony clearly had the impression that the Power and the capabilitys of their system was key to this Gen. Not only MS new Definition to a PR Clusterfuck. So there was no reason , absolutly NO REASON for the Suit wearers to go to Cerny and tell him to make it cheap and weak this time lol..
And another Thing besides that, specificly takles the "Sony caught of Guard" Narrative:
Actually MS did that Mistake when they concepted the Xbox One.
They took the Tf of the Xbox 360 and made the new System 10 times more powerfull. generally a feasable concept.
But in a world where your competion had the much stronger system -( and the PS3 WAS stronger but needed alot more dev time to make use of the complicated cell , wich third partys most time would not do) you need also consider what kind of aproach would they do.
Turnt out that of course Sony dident used the power narrative of the PS360 Gen where the stronger system looked most times weaker to calculate the new systems power.
Of course they used their specssheet of PS3 and made their new System 10 times more powerfull than that.
THIS is the Mistake that happend that time in MS Development Lab.
They should have anticipated this approach from Sony but dident.
And so was it that the power difference on Paper of the PS360 Gen was the blueprint for the Power differential in this Gen.
Sony and Cerny for shure did not make this Mistake and especially after the Xbox One X it was clear that MS will be aiming at a doubleling in Tf..
So Sonys approach to a "only" 36CU was well planed by its Hardwareteam around Cerny.
They used the resources to produce a System wich is full of surounding tech and features wich in sum will be more than enough to counter Xbox Xs capabilitys.
There will be no Xbox One Situation for Sony!
Everyone who believes that will lose his soul and composure at Sonys PS5 Blowout.
Always respect the Enemy. MS learned it the hard way.
You dont need to!
with that being said - my Day 1 system will be PS5.
But at April 2021 i collect my Bonus and then the powerfull Xbox X will be MINE aswell !
ps : pls consider to watch my post here - worked something out on wich i liked to have your opinions on.
- and a game announced last year without a platform and became a PS5 exclusive. Which games were announced without platform?
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