I'm not spending more than 500 dollars for a console. If it's 550 then I'm out on purchasing one at launch. I'd rather upgrade my PC at that point.
Agreed.
Looking at over $600 at launch with a game. Closer to $700 IF you get an extra controller as well. Nope. I can see Microsoft being this stupid and charging that much out of the gate.
They really need to consider how much gamers are willing to shell out even for a premium console. There was such a thing as a $600 PS3 and that almost lost Sony the generation and they were riding on the heels of a much more successful PS2. Microsoft doesn't have the luxury of that mindshare so they need to price the XSeX just right or crash right out of the gates.
Well, it would only make sense if ray tracing on those RTX cards was completely abandoned by developers because AMD and Sony's ray tracing solution uses dedicated hardware that doesn't port well to Nvidia's RTX cards. Then you would have an expensive GPU that doesn't do ray tracing while it looks great on consoles.
Same, Ray Tracing is something I could care less about.I personally don't care about ray tracing cards. Which is why I didn't spring to upgrade to an RTX card right away. I will be waiting until next gen.
I care more about 144+ Fps.
I think ray tracing could be very interesting, specifically if they can incorporate it via BC in some old games.Same, Ray Tracing is something I could care less about.
FPS is far more important.
Pfff I rather have a $500-600 12+ TF RT beast than a PC in 2020.
Interesting that this leaked a year ago....and most of it is pretty accurate...so far:
I personally don't care about ray tracing cards. Which is why I didn't spring to upgrade to an RTX card right away. I will be waiting until next gen.
I care more about 144+ Fps.
Thinking a $500-600 PC or even double that in 2020 will put out better visuals than a 12TF XSX is laughable.
And you are willing to pay that premium on hardware to get there.
They are also saying that the PS5's SSD is faster than anything available on the PC side. It's very likely that most developers will build games without even having load screens and some will end up doing ports to the PC just expecting them to have a highend SSD.
Once you have to skip a game that you were looking forward to because you don't meet the recommended specs because of your SSD those consoles over $500 will look very appealing.
Yeah, the bargain PC market will be very treacherous moving forward. A guy I'm subscribed to recommended a 4 core 8 thread Ryzen CPU. That's absolutely ridiculous with consoles having 8 threads and 16 cores. Even now some games will already stutter on that CPU.
RDR2 has budget cards like the 5500xt struggling at 1080p. CyberPunk 2077 is likely going to be even more brutal on budget PC gamers.
We haven't even made it to the next gen yet. That's not even taking into account the super fast SSDs on consoles. And they are telling people they only need an SSD for the OS?
I got a 1660ti TUF only because it was on sale for $220 (it's usually $280). That's just for 1080p. I'd be very disappointed in it if not for it working with freesync now.
They are also saying that the PS5's SSD is faster than anything available on the PC side. It's very likely that most developers will build games without even having load screens and some will end up doing ports to the PC just expecting them to have a highend SSD.
The combo to beat a 12TF console in 2020I literally bought a 8 core 16 thread Ryzen 1700X for 150 dollars almost a year ago. CPU horsepower is cheap to come by.
The combo to beat a 12TF console in 2020
Won't be plus it won't have a UHDBR player.
A custom built 12TF's GPU with built in RT would smoke a PC equivalent and do it for a much much lower price.12 AMD TF's isn't a huge amount of power in the PC world. The Vega 64 which is over 2 years old was 12.5 TF. Yea it's big for a console but it's not in the PC world, like I said a 2 year old GPU has more than that.
1440p-4k(?) 120fps COD confirmed.Xbox head Phil Spencer prefers higher frame rates than resolution
Xbox head Phil Spencer prefers higher frame rates than resolution
While Microsoft won't dictate what developers will optimise for on the Xbox Series X, Xbox head Phil Spencer said he'd prefer to play games with higher frame rastevivor.com
12 AMD TF's isn't a huge amount of power in the PC world. The Vega 64 which is over 2 years old was 12.5 TF. Yea it's big for a console but it's not in the PC world, like I said a 2 year old GPU has more than that.
Look at the date of the article - it was before pcie 4. And those are still almost 200 for a TB. I am still shocked either console is going to have one of those, and I still suspect they're going to do something custom with where the SSD is, maybe even integrating it more directly with the APU.
I watched a video from Redgamingtech that said that it would only cost MS/Sony $20 for a TB making them in house. And now I just saw another video that said the Xbox Series X SSD could actually be pretty slow.
The combo to beat a 12TF console in 2020
Won't be plus it won't have a UHDBR player.