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The ID Buffer and f16 were just features from GCN1.5 just baked in earlier into Pro's GCN 1.3 GPU.

Pro and PS5 development budgets are completely different, as is BOM and profit margins.

ID Buffer. I think it held the previous frame in 3D space to save up on bandwidth, and memory usage.

So assuming a game doesn't have RT, does the dedicated Navi RT hardware just scratch it's balls and do nothing?

Maybe Navi will have some other interesting features? RT is nice. Some resolution solution trick for 4K would make it cheaper and better? Checkboard Turbo Pro or some shit.

Sigma 2 on PS3 is better anyways.

If we get a spec leak we can probably just calculate the amount of time it would take PS5's X amount of RAM to get filled with Y amount of SSD/RAM bandwidth. That would be the worst case scenario, assuming the game loads everything from zero.

Outside of first party you'll get loading times, don't worry lol.

That's a good point, but you're pointing to more of a PSN Plus added featureset. Or the rumoured PLus Premium. It's service growth, but it's aimed at hardware once again. People here laugh but it seems PSnows biggest growth next gen might be the rumoured PlayStation tablet.

Albert Penelo just posted this. Ex MS head. Don't confuse investment with "willing to take a loss" The Xbox advantage is that it can leverage Microsoft capital for "big bets". This could be headcount, acquisitions, or infrastructure (like Xcloud) But the bet needs to pay off. Unlike say Nintendo, Microsoft's size means that it's also diversified, and therefore a single business unit like Xbox can't bring down the whole company. It's not correct to draw a line between the size and profitability of Microsoft, and the willingness or ability for Xbox to take a loss on HW

MS could at least pretend that Stadia doesn't have them scared shitless. Have some fucking dignity.

The reality for Sony is not even the competition in the streaming space. It's just for them most likely even in the best case scenario PSnow will never even represent a fraction of their gaming business compared to hardware. PlayStation streaming will never outgrow PlayStation hardware. So they got their prior right. MS obviously expects XCloud to far outpace XBox hardware.

So E3 will be an XCloud show as predicted.

It exists. That's all they'll say. They won't be building PS5 server farms anytime soon after launch anyways. So PS5 it is.

Stadia shown. XCloud shown. And Sony focuses on PS5. PSnow will be like a 3 minute video at best. Proud of lord Sony.

Why do people assume it this gen used 4K as it's marketing revision gimmick, a next gen revision marketing gimmick has to be 8k? People just want a more powerful version of the console,the marketing gimmick is irrelevant.

Well back in the day House said that the Pro/X are also to keep some people from switching to PC as hardware ages for multiplats.

So a year of game pass ultimate costs more than a console, what a deal!

Do lemmings collect controllers or some shit.

Don't worry I expect good guy Phil to fix this issue.

Well the question is how much it will cost after a year is more important than launch price

Refreshes can have multiple marketing gimmicks. From framerate to resolution to improved ray tracing to whatever. All they really need to say games look/play better and the target audience will buy them. Plus there is a demographic that just buys the more premium version of a product when they enter an ecosystem and won't settle for the cheaper option just by the virtue of that alone.

Way too many people are confused by this. Ress, frame rate is a design choice. Not a hardware spec or ability.

But the NPD insiders said that this gen didn't see the decline mid gen previous did due to revisions.

Yeah we know 5nm and 3nm are coming, 3nm I think is before 2022 actually. Plus they can just bake in next gen ray tracing hardware acceleration and other stuff.