PS3 was 4 billion in R&D, so Sony can go full throttle for hardware if they wish it, but after spending all that, giving the best BC gamers have ever seen (by giving two generations worth of BC in PS1+PS2), where every single title, not some, all could be played......Where they thought a second cell for the GPU would pan out by Ken Kutaragi, but had to settle for an expensive but not the best GPU solution from NV, as they were already a bit late to the market. Yet PS3 was packed with tech and their plans for it was bigger (with a cell GPU), but not everything panned out, they had to release it. Yet PS3 had the; Bluray Drive, SACD, Other OS, USB ports galore etc, even the external was premium. Yet Sony learnt lots from that, BC is not a hardware seller, a $500-600 premium console is a no go, price is important to the consumer, extras are not so important, use the money and put in a better GPU, put in more Ram, put in a better CPU......Make the console more accessible to devs, These are the lessons they learnt on hardware last gen....
Yet for PS5, Sony can go full throttle and take a loss again, because of all the success they've had this gen and because they know people will go where the games are. So they can do 7nm Navi and Ryzen at launch and in two years recoup some costs with a slim at 5nm.....I think Sony will go full throttle on PS5, there is no doubt about that, so anyone thinking MS will automatically have a more powerful console are not being realistic, besides, it's Sony collaborating with AMD on Navi, it's Sony who's had Vega features in PS4-PRO, 1 year before XBONEX and they could have had XBONEX performance 1 year earlier with a $500 PRO, but they realized since last gen that price is important...($400 is their target)....I'm thinking PS5 will be a $600 box sold at $400 in 2020.....
Woah! is this a commercial?
So if all this is a "Phil says" joint.......Then you should also remember some choice quotes......
Phil said "XBONEX is a TRUE 4k console, with the best framerates, none of that Checkerboard, Upscaling stuff you see on PRO etc, PRO should be compared to XBONE-S if anything"
https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/13/15790162/microsoft-phil-spencer-xbox-one-x-vs-ps4-pro-interview
Phil said "The high profile games are coming, just wait baby"
It's been five years............Last year when Phil said he's going to show some major titles, he showed Forza 7 as the only AAA title at E3 and said he considered Ori, SOT, Super Lucky's Tales to be major announcements, SMH.....
Phil said "We have some major projects we can't show you yet baby"
Phil then went on to cancel fable legends and scalebound and at this years E3 announces five studios, where one is not even formed yet, two have been making XBOX games (FORZA and SOD), one is an indie studio that just released a game sitting at 63 MC with only 5 reviews on XBOX, farless for when it gets more reviews....Ninja theory, which have been strapped for cash and has never made a huge hit or hardware-moving game is also on board. Yet Phil says, there's lots in the oven for years ongoing, so where were those games at this year's E3, when Crackdown has been in limbo since launch (as the cloud powered behemoth), another promise of huge things yet again. I mean when will people learn.
Phil's PR team said "Quantum Break, Sunset Overdrive exceeded all expectations"
Where are the sequels? Dead, MS and these teams broke ties soon after....Now, Insomniac is now making it's biggest game ever on PS4 and Remedy has gone multiplat with Control, which was shown at a Sony conference, strangely....
Phil and his team says "We're no longer giving numbers, because that's an ancient way of reporting"
I mean you have to be as dense as a forest to not get a clue, I mean everything is hidden behind "exceeded expectations", 10 billion dives into the ocean of thieves, 5000 bodyless krakens defeated etc...and they are slammed in NPD every month, Nintendo is outselling them.....
I mean do we forget what
Phil's old pal Aaron Greenberg said "MS would never concede power to a Sony system"
He was talking about Xbox One vs PS4.....
He also said "People buy XBOX because we have the biggest exclusives"
I mean.....
How can any of these guys know which console is going to be more powerful, if they don't know what Sony will have under the hood and in what timeframe they will release? How can they know. The only reason that Scorpio is more powerful than PRO is because it came 1 year later, with less features than PRO at that for $100 more. Some people really have to remove the wool from their eyes......
As for Obsidian, I hope it does not happen because MS has a knack of destroying devs. Hell, Bungie wanted to jump ship so bad as they were stuck in Halo limbo, so they did. Rare is done, Remedy is done. Those Forza Horizon guys should know they're in it for the longhaul, if and when Fable bombs, they will be back shooting out Horizon's every other year for the rest of their lives...Insomniac had a taste with Sunset overdrive, they're back at Sony. MS purchasing a team is just a bad omen, Ninja Theory better pray that it works out for them, as I liked that team. I truly hope they don't go under, but the writing on the wall is all too familiar..