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[MasterCornholio]

When Sony released the PlayStation 4 in November 2013, it sold 7.5 million units in its first two quarters.

That's why I highly doubt that Microsoft is going to produce 10-15 million. If Sony wasn't able to sell more than 7.5 million in 6 months what chance does Microsoft have?

Even if Microsoft produces that many systems retailers won't accept them all. Which means the ones left over can just become expensive to Microsoft because of storage costs.

The smart thing to do is make sure that your supply and demand are close to each other. Which is what I'm predicting that both Microsoft and Sony will do.

 

[Neo Blaster]

You havent missed a thing.

How dare you talk like that to Amanda Cerny?

 

[Apollo Helios]

Catches this guys:


That tweet made me cringe, you deserve the Medal of Cringe.

Thank you, and the joy of seeing an xbox community influencer getting angry at his community is just a bonus.

 

[MasterCornholio]

He received what I was sent. He didn’t verify it because the person who sent me the message didn’t want his email revealed. So I had to crop the email headers out.

How will Mod of War know the source of the information?

I'm assuming that even without the email there's a way to find out what the source is.

 

[LordOfChaos]

Tim Sweeney generally responds to questions like this but I’m not surprised he shut Linus down. He must’ve seen the video where straight up the guy said Tim should stop ‘trying so hard’ to sell soap for Sony as there are already existing SSDs in PC space which are faster than SSD in the PS5. He then left the room to fetch the said SSD and proceeded to gloat about proving them wrong.

I mean see this for yourself.

Yeah you don't get to send a small army of gloating morons Tim's way and then ask to monetize him for another video. They chose to bash rather than understand, they made that bed.

 

[Kusarigama]

He received what I was sent. He didn’t verify it because the person who sent me the message didn’t want his email revealed. So I had to crop the email headers out.

Which means it is unverified. Now, I am not saying you are lying about or giving fake info but I can't say you are being honest either. It being internet and all.

 

[hemo memo]

Tim Sweeney generally responds to questions like this but I’m not surprised he shut Linus down. He must’ve seen the video where straight up the guy said Tim should stop ‘trying so hard’ to sell soap for Sony as there are already existing SSDs in PC space which are faster than SSD in the PS5. He then left the room to fetch the said SSD and proceeded to gloat about proving them wrong.

I mean see this for yourself.

“Look at that. What a funny thing. Isn’t that funny”

No dude it’s cringe. You should’ve researched the thing you are going to talk about.

 

[icerock]

24 hours from now would’ve been a hyped opening in the PS5 event.

 

[Wraith Phantom]

Dude's not having it lol

What in the moon presence.This Linus fool thinks he's at the level where he can talk to with people like Tim & Cerny. He actually thinks he can sit at the table with them & talk about engineering. After discrediting their products. He's still going through the 5 stages. He can't even process the laymen version Cerny gave us at PS5 deep dive. But wants to sit down with genius level people & talk deeper.

Poor guy.The stages are only gonna get worse.Disruptive tech normally last for 4-7 years. And that is if Sony don't drop an even more improved refresh 5 years in.

Might have to pray for that one. He looks like the crying & suicidal type.

 

[IkarugaDE]

Which means it is unverified. Now, I am not saying you are lying about or giving fake info but I can't say you are being honest either. It being internet and all.

Think we should give a chance to everyone who is allowed to post insider info here. If it turns out to be fake everone knows he got fischered then.

 

[xacto]

I swear to god all memes aside. 2020 is the shittiest year I witnessed in my almost 32 years of life. No joke. Yet again I never witnessed war. But 2020 has still some month to go

All things started to go to shit after Kobe Bryant died, man.

 

[IkarugaDE]

24 hours from now would’ve been a hyped opening in the PS5 event.

Think we should wait until friday to get a new announcment. We aren't two weeks away from hapiness.

 

[MasterCornholio]

Now, I am not saying you are lying about or giving fake info but I can't say you are being honest either.

WhispersintheWind

I think the issue that Gaf has with insiders is that we had insiders in the past that deliberately falsified information using fotoshop. TommyFisher (fake Dualshock) and I believe FCRC (fake PS5 dev kit) are responsible for creating this mistrust in insiders.

Now while we do appreciate you sharing information with us unless the source is clear we have to take it with a pretty big grain of salt.

 

[ToadMan]

That's why I highly doubt that Microsoft is going to produce 10-15 million. If Sony wasn't able to sell more than 7.5 million in 6 months what chance does Microsoft have?

Even if Microsoft produces that many systems retailers won't accept them all. Which means the ones left over can just become expensive to Microsoft because of storage costs.

The smart thing to do is make sure that your supply and demand are close to each other. Which is what I'm predicting that both Microsoft and Sony will do.

There was a rumour going round MS might launch early ... perhaps they’re going for a surprise launch in late August/early September to try and get some units sold through before Sony.

In which case stretching the sales period to nearer 3 quarters.... 15 mil is still a lot though but I might be tempted to get one just tide me over until PS5 arrives...

 

[xacto]

I missed 30-pages anything worth catching up on? Or just the new hype train with two rides?

Mainly Amanda Cerny. There is no other train, we just switched

 

[IkarugaDE]

Mainly Amanda Cerny. There is no other train, we just switched

TBH she's hot.

Fun fact: Two guys, one with a cat-avatar and the other with dogs talk about a hot girl in a console-thread. We are at the bottom!

 

[geordiemp]

WhispersintheWind

I think the issue that Gaf has with insiders is that we had insiders in the past that deliberately falsified information using fotoshop. TommyFisher (fake Dualshock) and I believe FCRC (fake PS5 dev kit) are responsible for creating this mistrust in insiders.

Now while we do appreciate you sharing information with us unless the source is clear we have to take it with a pretty big grain of salt.

What is the narrative ? I missed the "reveal"

 

[MasterCornholio]

TBH she's hot.

Fun fact: Two guys, one with a cat-avatar and the other with dogs talk about a hot girl in a console-thread. We are at the bottom!

I've been in that situation before.

 

[xacto]

TBH she's hot.

Fun fact: Two guys, one with a cat-avatar and the other with dogs talk about a hot girl in a console-thread. We are at the bottom!

You say we're at the bottom, I say this kind of keeps us afloat until Sony decides to come out of the closet. Unless some good-hearted leaker won't make it public before Sony does. That's going to be a AAA meltdown if it happens

 

[Three Jackdaws]

"I've kept quiet a lot of stuff to myself, one of the things the developers have told me is that the demo was crafted with Playstation hardware in mind and that if it had been ported to the Xbox Series X, the Xbox could not run the demo too good because the storage system of the Xbox is different"

 

[Lethal01]

I thought commenting on the light theme travesty was low-hanging fruit to be honest.

-I am tech youtuber with more of 10 millions of subs, we want you explain us how the PS5 is better than our PCs
-Get out of here kid

I respect Linus for admitting he fucked up and trying to undo the misinformation he spread while taking care not to just end up spreading more.

 

[MasterCornholio]

What is the narrative ? I missed the "reveal"

Some people are saying how they can't trust WhispersintheWind information and I was explaining why.

I mean it's going to be like that forany people especially after what some insiders tried to pull in this very thread.

 

[SlimySnake]

Dude's not having it lol

ouch. this guy gives no fucks lmao.

 

[Insane Metal]

"I've kept quiet a lot of stuff to myself, one of the things the developers have told me is that the demo was crafted with Playstation hardware in mind and that if it had been ported to the Xbox Series X, the Xbox could not run the demo too good because the storage system of the Xbox is different"

As in, not as good.

 

[IkarugaDE]

You say we're at the bottom, I say this kind of keeps us afloat until Sony decides to come out of the closet. Unless some good-hearted leaker won't make it public before Sony does. That's going to be a AAA meltdown if it happens

Yeah you are right. Well, we got a game gear Mini this week.

 

[Three Jackdaws]

"I've kept quiet a lot of stuff to myself, one of the things the developers have told me is that the demo was crafted with Playstation hardware in mind and that if it had been ported to the Xbox Series X, the Xbox could not run the demo too good because the storage system of the Xbox is different"

Something else which he mentions that I find interesting, PS5 vs Series X on Ray-tracing, some of this is paraphrased so just watch the video.

"with the Xbox Series X it is able to generate more rays of light in a scene (than a PS5) however those rays can bounce to fewer surfaces because of the slower GPU clock speed compared to the PS5"

 

[Three Jackdaws]

As in, not as good.

 

[xacto]

Yeah you are right. Well, we got a game gear Mini this week.

But... BUT....

 

[Insane Metal]

I'm watching it now and he said it's actually different, it'd need to be tailored to get the best out of the xbox, just like it had been on the PS5. And it wouldn't necessarily look worse.

 

[Bo_Hazem]

Easier to create means more high quality games hitting the platform much quicker, and/or games taking the same amount of time to develop as before but now with far more attention to detail and features.
More love being poured into a game, and less roadblocks and headaches to sap developer time. Less reasons to put more ambitious ideas on hold or out of project scope if you spend more time creating rather than problem solving.

A console’s success is defined by its cost and the frequency of quality games coming out for it.
A console’s success isn’t defined by how well it could theoretically work, or how it stacks up on paper.
That goes for both consoles and the areas they are each strong.

Let’s see if Sony’s focussing on developers an fast IO pays off over the coming years.
Let’s see if Microsoft’s refocussing on hardware power and investment in first-party studios pays off over those same years.

It’s all always about the games.

Games are art, when you don't enjoy building them, don't expect others to enjoy them neither.

All of what I want now is having less years to produce Sony's 1st games, the most important games to me. So making them like 2-4 years max would be wonderful.

 

[xacto]

Catches this guys:


Games are arts, when you don't enjoy building them, don't expect others to enjoy them neither.

All of what I want now is having less years to produce Sony's 1st games, the most important games to me. So making them like 2-4 years max would be wonderful.

I guess you didn't get the memo... it's not the exclusives, it's the multiplats where it's at.

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

This is a long article, a lot to sift through for quotes, but this just went up about UE5 demo vs realistic expectations for long games next gen

Epic bets on Unreal Engine 5 transforming next-gen game development - here's what developers think

We recently got our first glimpse of what video games could look like on PS5 thanks to a tech demo for Unreal Engine 5.

www.vg247.com

Epic Games says much of this is possible due to the unique architecture of the PS5, which is why the engine was shown off running on Sony’s machine.

ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW
“The PlayStation 5 provides a huge leap in both computing and graphics performance, but its storage architecture is also truly special,” Penwarden says. “The ability to stream in content at extreme speeds enables developers to create denser and more detailed environments, changing how we think about streaming content. It’s so impactful that we’ve rewritten our core I/O subsystems for Unreal Engine with the PlayStation 5 in mind.”

“Are 30 hour games of that visual fidelity really possible?” Graff asks. “To that I would say no, at least not really. The main bottleneck and problem I see at the moment is memory. Storing all these ultra-high-poly models is likely not possible in a game that shouldn’t take up hundreds of GB of space

 

[SSfox]

"I've kept quiet a lot of stuff to myself, one of the things the developers have told me is that the demo was crafted with Playstation hardware in mind and that if it had been ported to the Xbox Series X, the Xbox could not run the demo too good because the storage system of the Xbox is different"

 

[sircaw]

I guess you didn't get the memo... it's not the exclusives, it's the multiplats where it's at.

I can not believe he stated that. That's even more unreal than the unreal engine tbh.

 

[xacto]

I can not believe he stated that. That's even more unreal than the unreal engine tbh.

Some people can try and go lower than rock bottom. Desperation has no limits.

 

[sircaw]

Some people can try and go lower than rock bottom. Desperation has no limits.

It seriously is beyond that, it just retarded and i don't mean savant retarded either.
What the hell was he thinking lol.

 

[xacto]

It seriously is beyond that, it just retarded and i don't mean savant retarded either.
What the hell was he thinking lol.

When we're talking about "Sir Colteastwood" we have no idea what's he thinking about

 

[bitbydeath]

How the turns have tabled.

GPU - *XSX > PS5
Although PS5 can produce better looking games due to streaming graphics direct from zBrush.

CPU - *XSX > PS5
Although you must ignore the two other CPU’s in the PS5 which take some load off the main CPU unlike XSX which will be drawing from the one. (The smallest of the three CPU’s in the PS5 is the same size as the one found in the PS4.)

Memory - *XSX > PS5
Although you must ignore the large pool of SRAM in the IO which carries out tasks XSX will be using the main memory for and XSX will have split memory causing further complications.

SSD - PS5 > SSD

 

[Deleted member 775630]

“Are 30 hour games of that visual fidelity really possible?” Graff asks. “To that I would say no, at least not really. The main bottleneck and problem I see at the moment is memory. Storing all these ultra-high-poly models is likely not possible in a game that shouldn’t take up hundreds of GB of space

There it is. Just like the Scorn developer said, the difference won't be as big as it seems. Games can't be this detailed because they would be too large. Since they are smaller, you don't need to feed that much data to the GPU, hence you won't need such a fast SSD. Or am I missing something? Honest question.

 

[Bo_Hazem]

I guess you didn't get the memo... it's not the exclusives, it's the multiplats where it's at.

Most of my amazing moments were in Sony's 1st party games, 3rd party games are great fillers anyway. I would want Sony to expand even more with this cheaper, and superior development advantage. We want more great games!

 

[zaitsu]

Most of my amazing moments were in Sony's 1st party games, 3rd party games are great fillers anyway. I would want Sony to expand even more with this cheaper, and superior development advantage. We want more great games!

For me multiplats are also fillers between Sony’s exclusives. And PS4 is my first Sony console ... i was PC gamer mostly and then bought pro and xox. I loved every exclusive ( even days gone) and i think only multiplatforms as good as Sonys titles are RDR2 and Witcher 3. Rest games are not on the same level.

 

[xacto]

Most of my amazing moments were in Sony's 1st party games, 3rd party games are great fillers anyway. I would want Sony to expand even more with this cheaper, and superior development advantage. We want more great games!

That's why we chose Sony in the first place, for the 1st party games; otherwise we'd be some Colteastwood clones happy to play FIFA, MLB and COD and call it a day.

No offense for players who like FIFA, MLB, COD.

 

[pawel86ck]

"I've kept quiet a lot of stuff to myself, one of the things the developers have told me is that the demo was crafted with Playstation hardware in mind and that if it had been ported to the Xbox Series X, the Xbox could not run the demo too good because the storage system of the Xbox is different"

If UE5 tech demo was indeed build with PS5 I/O in mind, then it's perfectly understandable to me eventual XSX port would need to be downgraded. But lets be realistic, it's not very likely developers will use such qulity assets in their PS5 games anyway if this tech demo was over 100 GB like people suggest. Full game with such quality assets would be easily over 1 GB, so I guess even PS5 developers will be forced to downgrade their game assets anyway.

 

[xacto]

AMD GPU line powering PS5 and Xbox Series X will launch before the consoles themselves

Big Navi is also coming this fall

www.gamesradar.com

 

[zaitsu]

There it is. Just like the Scorn developer said, the difference won't be as big as it seems. Games can't be this detailed because they would be too large. Since they are smaller, you don't need to feed that much data to the GPU, hence you won't need such a fast SSD. Or am I missing something? Honest question.

Still im expecting games to be bigger not smaller. I just want 825 GB to be enough for 4 games. I dont need more at the same time.

 

[zaitsu]

If UE5 tech demo was indeed build with PS5 I/O in mind, then it's perfectly understandable to me eventual XSX port would need to be downgraded. But lets be realistic, it's not very likely developers will use such qulity assets in their PS5 games anyway if this tech demo was over 100 GB like people suggest. Full game with such quality assets would be easily over 1 GB, so I guess even PS5 developers will be forced to downgrade their game assets anyway.

Ive seen many „suggestions”. Personally i think it wasn’t more than 10 GB, and you can have 2 hours more od that demo using same assets over and over in different manner. Games Will grow bigger.

 

[sendit]

Dude's not having it lol

Does anyone actually take Linus seriously? His knowledge of hardware/tech seems limited to building PCs. Cerny's "Road to PS5" video explains in detail on how the I/O work between SSD:Sys/Video ram in comparison to traditional use-case (PC architecture).

 

[BadBreathOfTheWild]

"I've kept quiet a lot of stuff to myself, one of the things the developers have told me is that the demo was crafted with Playstation hardware in mind and that if it had been ported to the Xbox Series X, the Xbox could not run the demo too good because the storage system of the Xbox is different"

This guy sounds like he's often trying to keep a burp down. We can only take his word for this, and don't know who his sources are to judge how much weight they have, but it's inline with what anyone reasonable has been saying here after looking at what Sweeney has said.

A lot of what Sweeney has and hasn't said (including him mentioning the NDAs that still bind) has been interpreted by some as shilling for Sony because they had a technical partnership. I've always seen it as not wanting to downplay Microsoft or anyone, due to the nature of who they deal with and what their Engine is promoted as.

UE5 will scale all the way down to mobile devices. Nanite and Lumen are scalable on PS5, XSX and NVMe equipped PCs. Lumen in the Land of Nanite was very likely something that stretched PS5's capabilities in IO, because that's precisely what EPIC and Sony have been working on together, and that's exactly where Sony has spent their money.

There will be first-party games on both systems that wouldn't be possible on the other. In world detail and traversal for PS5, and in pixel density and perhaps RT in XSX.
Third-party games will depend on each studio, but it's telling that the biggest third-party engine was redesigned around technology developed by Sony, and it's just as easy to scale up in detail as down. As with every PC version of a console game that comes out.
Especially with Nanite whereby you can adjust its various parameters and just use your source material if you want.

 

[Great Hair]

I respect Linus for admitting he fucked up and trying to undo the misinformation he spread while taking care not to just end up spreading more.

Trying to undo? He ran down the stairs to pick up an expensive raid card for 8x m2 nvmes to win an argument over stream with Tim Sweeney only to be doing it one more time (win an argum.) in his latest Raid Liquid SSD for $12,000.

And then the Intel "d#ck succulence" video, omitting Intel´s "backstory OEM" out of the blue after shitting on´em for months.

HE chooses too well his words. He plays the game too well. Remember when he whined for 2h? about leaving da youtubz game, he had enuff, he couldnt anymore? YEAH, he forgot that within 8h.

 

[Hawking Radiation]

Tim Sweeney generally responds to questions like this but I’m not surprised he shut Linus down. He must’ve seen the video where straight up the guy said Tim should stop ‘trying so hard’ to sell soap for Sony as there are already existing SSDs in PC space which are faster than SSD in the PS5. He then left the room to fetch the said SSD and proceeded to gloat about proving them wrong.

I mean see this for yourself.

Jesus.

What the fuck is wrong with these people?