Here's my two cents on this whole PS5 thing.
(Man, working from home due to corona, it's like all the emails stopped too. lol)
Insiders
- I don't give a shit about insiders, and none of you should have too, but it's still fun to read and participate. I understand github leaks being outdated could mean nothing, but as you can see they were basically spot on except for those dataminers missing an entry about a gpu boost
- Whatever reason for most of the insiders being way off could be due to many reasons, but whatever. Insiders who know nothing tagged on as follow the leader. True insiders couldn't tell gamers PS5 was 9.2 and boosted to 10tf or else they'd get killed for the past year. So 12-13tf rumours had to persist to save face
- At least give respect for the ones who manned up and stuck around. As for the ones who tried to convince you all they are gaming gurus and disappeared, F em. Most of them bailed. As for pure trollers, what can I tell you? They did it purely for fun
PS5 Specs
- No doubt this reveal churned out some weak specs vs SeX, aside from the crazy SSD they put in. All that 3D audio is a non-issue because SeX also has 3D audio
- I don't know if their big focus on this was purely intentional or a head fake to downplay the weaker specs, but that's what it is. But it sure seemed genuine Cerny loved talking SSD and 3D audio with a grin on his face, so maybe PS R&D really do think those are the next priorities in gaming hardware
- There have been rumours PS5 was supposed to be a 2019 system but they delayed it for whatever reason...... I've heard anything from they wanted to wait until LoU2 and Ghosts come out, to the hardware not ready yet, to PS4 was still trucking along so don't rock the boat yet. Maybe these are true
- And if they are (they do sound plausible to me), a 10tf system in 2019 would have been better appreciated than now when SeX is 12tf
- Personally I'm not surprised at weaker specs, simply due to PS4 be a more mainstream system selling across way more people and countries. A $400 system seems to be a nice price that was super successful for PS4. Pro was $400 too. You can see the chaos and gimped sales anytime a console maker tries a $500+ price...... PS3, Xbox with Kinect, I don't think Xbox X sold like gangbusters either. No matter how strong the brand is, console gaming sure seems wedged in that $300-400 range and that's what it is. You can make a console $600 with 24gb ram and an Nvidia 3080, and I bet it still sells shit. The value is there, but console gaming has this concrete price block that is hard to break
- I think PS5 will sell for $400 due to this. It may go higher, but when PS is mainstream and Jim Ryan last year said he wants PS4 gamers to smoothly transition to new hardware, he isn't talking transitioning your digital downloads to PS5. He's talking buying a PS5 for a good price
- As for sales, and first party games, they will be top notch. No doubt give a Sony studio a system that's 5x PS4 power and it'll churn out good games. And hardware sales will likely be #1 again