Alla värda namnet i spelbranschen har passat på att ventilera sina åsikter sedan Playstation 5 fick en närmare genomgång av Sony under förra veckan, där flera funktioner noggrant gicks igenom. En av dem som tyckt till är Kotakus nyhetsredaktör Jason Schreier, som allmänt brukar betraktas som en av de mest insatta speljournalisterna.
Och han hade både ris och ros att dela ut. Bland annat tycker han att Sony har tappat greppet något, men inflikar också att skillnaden mellan Playstation 5 och Xbox Series X inte är stor enligt honom:
"What I'm hearing from people actually working on these things is that the Xbox is not significantly more powerful than the Playstation, despite this teraflops number and that the teraflops — it might be a useful measure of comparison in some ways, but ultimately it's a theoretical max speed, and there are so many things that could come between where you are trying to get and what you are actually able to do, to the point where the GPU could have X number of flops that it can actually perform, but if the developer isn't able to actually access all of it for whatever reason, then it doesn't even matter, and there are so many other variables here that go into it."
Han fortsätter med att förklara att båda konsolerna är riktigt fina, men att han tycker att Sony nu förlorat narrativet till Microsoft, vilket han menar kan vara ett förödande slag som kan påverka negativt hela generationen:
"The general consensus is that these things are both extremely powerful and both very similar in a lot of ways and both do different things in really cool ways. These are both extremely impressive pieces of technology. But because of the way Sony has actually presented this thing and marketed this thing, now the narrative is 'the Xbox is way more powerful than the Playstation,' and I think that is such a — maybe fatal flaw on Sony's part for this console generation. Maybe it'll all be forgotten if the PS5 comes in cheaper, or it has a killer launch lineup, and maybe none of this will matter in November. Or maybe these consoles won't even be able to come out in November. But right now, it's such a dropping the ball after so many years of smart decisions on Sony's part."
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