Daaaaamn! Sony fans still trying to close that power gap with imagination and mental gymnastics? Gotta take the L and be happy with what Sony IS able to deliver. It'll be stellar as well. Hell, next gen sounds crazy in general. I cant wait!
Mental gymnastics and imagination? I know I've said the XSX is more powerful because it is but it's not by a large enough margin to mean much and when we are getting to games with the kind of fidelity that next gen should provide it's going to take a lot more power to get a little bit of visual edge. I think some people are being overly confident about what's going on here because Sony designed a machine that isn't meant to match up to the XSX on paper, they took a different approach and too many people don't seem to understand exactly what they are doing. I'm not saying that means they are equal in power but it's closer than it was last gen between the base consoles when they launched as well as between the refresh consoles.
I've said it before (because others who are actually more knowledgeable about this stuff than any one of us said it first) but the X1X had a bigger advantage over the Pro than the XSX has over PS5, it had more memory to use, a 1.8TF GPU advantage as well as a higher clocked CPU and all we really got were higher resolutions and sometimes slightly better textures, there is no ram advantage this time so that eliminates any issues with PS5 and it's textures. The PS5 also has a few areas where it will actually perform better than the XSX which isn't something that the Pro had over the One X.
The XSX isn't going to try to push beyond 4K unless it's some indie title and it's hard to believe that the PS5 won't be hitting 4K the vast majority of the time as well but if for some reason it doesn't it'll either be upscaled from 1800p which most people say looks pretty much the same or they could use another CB or temporal reconstruction trick which when done well like it was with Sony 1st party games on the Pro it makes it nearly impossible to tell a difference unless you pause it and start magnifying things like DF does.
I know many people are having a hard time getting over what went on with the current gen, we just went through 7 years where for the first 4 years Xbox gamers always had the short end of the stick and they lost just about every DF match up when it came to graphics etc and yeah a lot of PS owners probably blew that up to be bigger a bigger deal than it was but when you are comparing 720p to 1080p it did show up without having to blow up the image and that can't be denied, thankfully for Xbox owners they were able to get more games up to 900p and even 1080p as time went on.
The last 3 years the X1X always had the visual advantage but the Pro held it's own pretty well because it was able to fake 4K so that took a lot of the sting out of it. I own several games on Pro and One X and it's not something where you have the game running on both consoles and switch inputs back and forth and see some big difference, even with Rockstar's poor implementation of CB RDR2 still looks like the same game, you have to really try hard to find any differences.
So a win or loss in power? yeah on paper using the metrics we've been using over the last gen the XSX wins but how much will that mean in practice given the different strategy Sony has chosen to go with this time? this isn't an apples to apples comparison so we'll have to wait and see.