Yeah, exactly. This is why it was weird seeing people like Alanah Pearce talk about how she doesn’t get why people are so concerned with wanting to know price, and all that matters to her were the games. Easy to say when people in her position, not specifically her get exclusive access to games, companies send you early copies, gaming chairs and shit. Then she goes ahead and says “I’ll be getting both consoles anyway”. There lies the contention lol, a lot of people won’t be able to afford that kinda thing at once, in fact that’s kinda half the reason why console wars even exist in the first place, so for a game’s journalist or whatever adjacent position you have in the games industry already, you won’t see these prices the same way a normal gamer would. This is why I like ACG the game reviewer, he buys every single game he reviews and bases his reviews around whether or not the game is worthy of the asking price, should you wait for sale or not buy it at all.
Oh, ok. Yeah, that’s par for the course.
Everything Xbox does is under scrutiny. We are two months from launch, tension is rising. Some folks will do everything they could to bash the other plastic box…Especially when they are hungry !
Personnaly, I don’t care. MS is in a really really good spot right now. They made a couple mistakes here and there, but they are now set for launch. Even some exclusivity deals could not undermine what they have.
So, what I mean is : don’t let them get to you. 
Oh don’t worry thanks. Indeed always whatever Xbox do it is criticized as hell. Always trying to find a way. Just wait and see if they apply the same energy to the competition.
Yep they made some missteps but overall MS is in a really good position right now compared to 2013. They just need to have a constant flow of extremely high quality games to shut down all these concerns
Yeah. I was there day one in 2013. It was ugly. I was about to jump ship, but the launch lineup was too good and I could not have missed Halo and Gears. It is really impressive what they have done since then.
But the concerns ? It will continue well into the next gen. I thought the concerns would have died down with the Xbox One x, but they didn’t. The goalposts have legs now, they move fast !
So it’s important to have fun with it. Look at Xbox on twitter, they don’t take themselves seriously and it work. Phil Spencer killed the Craig meme ! And they masterfully took a massive leak and run with it. It was glorious !
Now, PS5 could have the best lineup, but MS beat them on power and price. That’s the most important factors for casuals and families.
Well said!
Yeah but that’s a level designer, not a tech guru per se. And frankly devs who are pushing 120fps and huge open levels and tons of players and 4k and RT like CoD supposedly it should have plenty of room in their engine to tweak settings to work fine on XSS.
What you say is true, the most important factor for casuals and families are power and price. The saddest part is the warriors realize the price/power factor is very attractive and they want to diminish the value of 299.
I can predict next piece of article to come soon… “Kotaku: The PS5 is big. But here’s why that’s a good thing”
Because we can use it as a heater in the winter??? LOL.
LOL 
maaan, they fell off a long time ago for me, but the super aggressive hot takes by them make me feel disgusted. they are like the fox news of gaming to me now.
You may kid, but just a few years ago in our old house my wife did exactly this with the PS3. She used it exclusively for Netflix while it heated the bedroom!
Wait…for real? No way hahaha
Dead serious. 
We had cadet (in wall) heaters. This (and the controller light bars plus jet engine reports) are why I skipped the PS4 and will pass on the overclocked PS5 until they are in the wild for a couple of years.
Lmao. Well then now I learned you can cook with PS4 Pro during summer if you want some barbecue
Long read for those who want. Beware 41 tweets…
So this console is tiny and I thought it would be perfect for travel along with a portable monitor so I just ordered the Strix XG17 1080p 240hz monitor. It has adaptic sync and only weighs 1 kilo. Great reviews as well. I should have it by Sept. 24th or earlier. I’ll test it out with my current PC as I’ve never been able to see anything above 60 fps yet. Both the console and the monitor will fit into my bookbag easily. I’ll be set as I do most of my gaming away from home. Now I just need to get my preorder in for the S and I’ll be happy. I’m pretty excited about it!
So I just had a thought. Let me preface that I was in on an S despite having the funds for an X and I own a 4k OLED TV. My Bravia only supports HDMI 2.0 which is not able to passthrough 120fps at 4k. But it is able to do so at 1440p. The S might be a better console for people without HDMI 2.1 because the user has not to arbitrarily change the resolution on the system side to take advantage of high framerates.
So now that we have seen the specs of all the consoles, the ps5 will be the baseline console. So the developers only really need to scale down the ps5 version to the xss version and the xsx version can get all the extra bells and whistles. Things are looking good for xbox
Ms is in a very good spot imo.
SX just being stronger than ps5 on all accounts and SS being overspeced for 1080p compared to SX at 4k means the devs will likely have a very good time reaching the target performance out of those.
PS5 will likely be the odd one out needing more tuning to find the correct settings/resolution balance, specially for games without dynamic resolution scaling.