I would like to take advantage of your response to make a general appeal. It is very important that you do not take this quote as an answer to your points, but as a general idea of the situation. It is not so much about being right but about exposing some facts.
I would also like to point out that, as the following is a complex expression text, it is possible that some errors have been made in the translation with everyday expressions in my language but that they may not have a direct translation in English, or that some examples are not understood from the everything. In that case my sincere apologies. Let us begin.
Every opinion is respectable, but not every opinion is valid.
PS5 doesn't need more than what it has.
XSX is an extraordinary system. Within the traditional workflow system it is the best home system created so far.
PS5 is not traditional. It is the first and only of its kind. It may go well or it may go wrong, time will tell, but it certainly is not comparable. It is as if you wanted to compare an electric car and a gasoline car. Yes, there are things that you can use to generate a debate, such as speed in KMH or MPH. But it will be an inconsequential debate. The basis of both is to achieve a displacement, but it is achieved in different ways and with different mechanisms.
Attempts are being made (too many times) to defend absurd comparisons. I am going to give a very exaggerated example, but so that the idea is understood:
XSX may already have the best oil tank, filters, carb, spark plugs, combustion engine, or timing belt, but it does because you should have it, because it is necessary to get better performance with that type of vehicle. But PS5 does not need all those things, it is an electric car. PS5 does not need BcPack. With Kraken (by the way, improved version for PS5) you have enough for what your system can offer. The purpose is to make both PS5 and XSX reach 300KMH. That XSX surely reaches that figure better in the traditional way? Undoubtedly, for sure. But PS5 is not traditional.
Starting from this exaggerated example it is necessary to qualify that yes, that both systems have things in common that are comparable and debatable, such as wheels, windows, transmission axles, etc ... And that can undoubtedly affect the final performance. , but we would be talking about elements that perhaps do not exceed 25% of the total system. We will see if they end up affecting or not.
For example, PS5 is a system that has an SSD that can make RAM dispensable for certain processes, so what are you doing wasting time comparing the different RAM of different systems? Can't you see you're wasting your time?
Other examples, XSX gets extra space by compressing data. Perfect, one way to approach a problem. PS5 uses the SSD to send data directly without going through RAM, so RAM will have more free space for other things. Perfect, another way to approach the same problem (I don't know if you understand what I mean to say). Comparable? It depends. The visual result is the same?
What remains to be seen is whether PS5 is capable of delivering the same results as XSX by addressing the same issues differently. Therefore, the effective discussion should be reduced to whether this new content creation system (PS5) is more effective than the traditional one and if it is capable of offering a visual finish (and with optimal performance) that is comparatively identical or better than that of the systems. traditional. If the answer is "yes", it will not matter how it is achieved. It does not matter if one uses BcPack and another Kraken, or one 10GB of RAM and another 16GB. If the result shown on TV is the same in both XSX and PS5 (or higher in the latter) then Sony will have won, and the industry / developers too, as it will mean that a new way of creating content has been successful. That is to say, it will have managed to establish as "valid" the technology of the electric car in the automotive industry, then it will only be missing that with the years (or decades) the industry will programmatically migrate from the traditional system to the new one. Will that mean XSX results are bad? No. What is really being tested here is the "creation system", not the power itself. XSX will continue to offer the best results in the traditional style. And that doesn't mean PS5 can't deliver the same (or better) results with the new system. In the same way, surely there will be things that PS5 will do worse. Or things that were believed to be better and that are eventually discovered that do not work as well. It will be seen in time.
By the way, I don't want to be politically incorrect with some indirect colleagues in the sector, but Digital Foundry lives on comparisons. Which is fine. And with this, very interesting debates are generated. You can even generate a more logical or less debate, but I would not dare to say that its conclusion is the most appropriate in this circumstance. Since it could happen that one has to retract some unlucky words more times than one would like (as is already happening). Also note that it doesn't only matter what a number says, but what your eye perceives. Because here there is a lot of bionic eye detecting pixels in static images but also many of them wear glasses and in the end they have to end up playing on their sofa 2 meters from the TV. I understand this purism more for the pixels in those PC players who have a monitor that is sharper than their TV and at a much shorter distance (probably 60cm). But come on, I think that currently nobody is going to cut their veins by a few pixels more or less.
Sony is not looking to be "just" the best console, it is already on top, the PlayStation brand needs no advertising, Sony is in a situation where it can afford to "test" with innovative systems, and can afford to fail. In this case looking to improve the content creation system trying to maintain or improve the final qualities. MCerny is a developer who has designed 2 consoles with the intention of making developers' lives easier, since (intelligently) he knows that if the developer is happy and the creation system is simple, then consequently the developer will want to work with that system and therefore both the console will have more content and variety worldwide. And it is what is happening. It started to happen with PS4 and I think it will continue to happen with PS5. And this shouldn't confront people or anger anyone. Competitiveness is necessary to improve, and the result is that the user will always be the beneficiary. In addition, MCerny has enough experience behind him in various sectors to have earned the benefit of waiting to see what happens in order to judge properly. On the other hand, I understand that in forums there is a need to know everything "NOW". But these companies always make "investments" with long-term "results".
Whether or not PS5 will make it, or whether that system will catch on in the industry or not, only time will tell.
And the answer to the question will be known with the years and the results, and NOT with the theoretical numbers.
So, comparable? It depends. The visual result is the same? The ease of creation is the same? Can you do without certain things without affecting the final quality? Does the possible work system compensate based on the result obtained? We will see. My opinion is that it does compensate, amply. Although I know that there are people concerned about whether this affects their jobs. Although my opinion is again that I do not think it affects, let's be positive.
EDIT: Depuration of different translation errors and content duplication.
. Many scoffed and now the joke is on each and every one of them.
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