XSX is all most 2tf more powerful at sustained performance, while also being smaller. PS5 is the weaker platform on top of having variable clocks, and larger in size. Evidence and facts do not support your comments. Phil is going all out stating XSX is more powerful. Notice Sony isn't saying anything of the sort.
I get it. Sonys own 1st party games from the E3 event failed to wow anybody, but somehow a 3rd party engine will surpass what sonys world class 1st party studios can accomplish on the PS5. I didn't know all of sony 1st party studios are going to use UE5. Can you provide a link to this? I didn't think so.
On the other hand, majority of MS 1st party are using the UE5 engine on top of having the more powerful hardware to work with.
Dude, I know you're feeling very defensive about Microsoft and it's cool, but seriously...I would temper my expectations if I were you. People claiming that XSX will have huge framerate advantages, etc. are just clowning you. THIS generation the PS4 was about 40% more powerful in the GPU and yes there were some resolution differences, but seriously..you needed Digital Foundry to blow screenshots up by 300x or whatever to even tell the marginal difference. Nobody with an Xbox one felt like their box was just too underpowered. So relax, it will be ok! But those trying to clown you that there will be some big advantage when the advantage in raw numbers is FAR less than the difference was between PS4 and XB1...are doing just that. Don't be fooled and buy into it! You will be very disappointed if you do.
So yes, the XSX is the most powerful box. By an even smaller margin than the PS4 had over the XB1. Not a big deal.
You think the first party games didn't wow anybody? Ok........ Hey your opinion is as valid as anyone else's. In my opinion we haven't seen anything from MS that is as impressive as R&C, Spiderman 2 or the new Horizon..but you know what...I think there WILL be. I'm betting the new Halo will look "next gen." And you know what? That doesn't threaten me at all. It's all GOOD. In fact, I'm looking forward to seeing more next gen stuff from BOTH companies because either way it will show us what we can basically expect to see from both platforms.
I would be careful about harshing on UE5 if I were you as well. If it sucks....what does that mean for the claims of things like Hellblade 2 being moved to UE5? If is IS great...what exactly do you think a $250 million dollar investment bought?
Bottom line relax. You're (obviously) getting an XSX and you will be happy with it. I think there might even be a few games that have an extra fps or so or maybe run at a little higher resolution for the XSX. That's good. But you're going to have to accept as well that things like the UE5 demo showed that the PS5 will likely have a few games using 8k assets streamed in realtime that likewise won't be quite the same on the XSX. The two boxes are pretty much dead-ass even (IMHO) but have some differences in a few areas that it will be interesting to see how it plays out, or if we can tell anything at all. Until we have a bunch of stuff we can look at and see, for example the new Assassins Creed and other games running on each box side by side as it were, we cannot know how this will work out. But again, even by those numbers, the differences look on paper like they will be pretty minimal.
So let's see. It's fun to speculate and my apologies if I've got you pegged wrong on this. Just seems like you're pretty spun up on the topic and I want to hopefully help you not be very disappointed when the realities start showing about these new consoles. Either one you get, you're gonna have great games and the tech is really cool. So it will be fine either way. Enjoy the ride!