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[MLiD] Project Helix is 25 Percent Faster Than PS6

I've been gaming on the PC since December 1996, so spare us on that one.
Then you should know that just because there is component similarities, Consoles still benefit from custom software. And that the entire point of Xbox going PC was because they were losing market-share to the point of no longer able to GET 3rd party custom software. QED the Nextbox will just run PC games with no games made for the hardware, because that was the point.

Anyone who thinks the Xbox hybrid would still get performance boosts from games tailor made for it, didn't understand why Xbox became a Hybrid. They were not going to be big enough to get 3rd party support to have a traditional console, so by definition there is no 3rd party support with the PC hybrid.
 
Nintendo still doesn't exist
That's cell phone hardware

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Listen, is not that hard.
your laptop is the opposite of a console obv. Your laptop brand makes dozens of laptop models with hundreds of different hardware combinations with different CPUs, GPUs, RAM configurations, you name it.
No dev can optimize for "a laptop" because there's no single fixed target. It's philosophically and practically the exact opposite of what makes something a console.

Honestly? More console than PC, yes.
They have fixed, well-defined hardware specs and nothing stops a dev from optimizing for a ROG Ally or Legion Go exactly like they would for a PS5 or Switch 2.
The hardware target is there. Devs just don't bother because the market isn't there yet, not because they technically can't.

Steam Machine is even more of a console: fixed hardware + a custom OS that Valve will tailor specifically for it. At that point it's basically a console with less walled garden than Sony or Nintendo.

So yeah, the line between "PC handheld" and "console" is way blurrier than people think. Helix is a console, period.

If you have Windows installed and can see porn it's a PC. Period.
 
Watch the 25% more become 10% less because they need to run the Win11 experience:pie_roffles:

Anyway hardware power is irrelevant if one device is targeting a 100m installed base and the other 10m at best.
It'll probably be Win 12, so probably it'll end up being 25% less.
 
Where are the browsers on PS5 or Switch 2?
I thought PS systems you could surf the net. No browser? On Xbox you can. Sucks using a gamepad, but it actually works well. Tested out the browser watching porn myself years back and the video quality was better than I thought it would be. lol
 
I thought PS systems you could surf the net. No browser? On Xbox you can. Sucks using a gamepad, but it actually works well. Tested out the browser watching porn myself years back and the video quality was better than I thought it would be. lol
PlayStation players don't need porn. We get more than we can handle in real life.
 
Microsoft DNA is software. Sony's DNA is hardware.

Doesn't matter how much 'faster' their console is, Sony's engineers are different gravy - their consoles always perform better in the end.
Yea it's like Apple vs Android. On paper Apple loses, in practice they don't.

And everyone knows the preferred platform to develop for 1st is always a Playstation so yall can wank to numbers till u go numb, it won't change the reality of what will happen next gen.

Yall have too much data to not know whats about to happen
 
Sony doesn't really need to be super competitve on price next gen, it will look like a much better investment compared to NextBox even if it came in at $700.

True! But I don't think Sony will be competing directly with the NextBox anyway. Indirectly yes, but we all know the truth here. But Sony will be competing with themselves.

And it's going to be very important for Sony to show they aren't falling off in a huge way with the PS6 versus the PS5.
 
Their S tier games havent been that for years and anything that remains is on other consoles/PC.
They can be 100% more powerful and it wouldnt matter. It would be expensive hardware with zero incentive to purchase when i can get what i want anywhere. Everything is an xbox.

When they double down on exclusives- if ever - i will take a look at their consoles. They are saving me money next get when i skip.
 
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I don't even remember many people talking about it to tell the truth.

many people thought the system literally ran on Windows.
that was a very common misunderstanding for a long time.
it was only very recently that people with enough reach clarified what Windows CE actually is and what it does on Dreamcast.
 
I still have trouble believing Kepler's claim that PS6 is on par roughly with 9070XT. That's like 5070 Ti level?

It's rumoured to be 160w top and on 3nm. 3nm doesn't provide that much of an efficiency leap from 4nm that 9070xt is on. Unless, and this is a big if, RDNA 5 is really that big of architectural leap. But looking at AMD's gpu division past track record, I have serious doubts
 
I still have trouble believing Kepler's claim that PS6 is on par roughly with 9070XT. That's like 5070 Ti level?

It's rumoured to be 160w top and on 3nm. 3nm doesn't provide that much of an efficiency leap from 4nm that 9070xt is on. Unless, and this is a big if, RDNA 5 is really that big of architectural leap. But looking at AMD's gpu division past track record, I have serious doubts

The PS5 Pro is somewhat around the 4060Ti in raster performance. 5070Ti is about twice as powerful as the 4060Ti.

So it depends on how much more powerful the PS6 is compared to the PS5 Pro. 2x more powerful GPU performance is probably realistic, given RDNA 5 improvements, higher bandwidth and significantly higher clocks.
 
guys, we have a final answer finally.
Ps4 and Ps5 are PCs, It's official : P
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And the Windows part?

Curious about those statistics, specially since neither PS4 or 5 can use a browser to access internet. PS4 there was some kind of trick, but doubt it was widespread.
 
Console vs PC

What's in a name?

They are both computers.

Console and PC are like "Teraflops" - They are nothing. An arbitrary and needless genreing of computers.

The worst part? The genres aren't even real. Consoles can play youtube store images and video stream and surf the web and PCs can play games. It's all meaningless. Just call them computers and move on. The only reason to worry about this is if you have coined the terms in your mind as inferior and superior. If you imagine that PC is something cool and consoles are for kids, that's the reason you hold on so tightly to that definition. Without it, you lose your sense of identity. I'm not saying call them computers, call them whatever you like, I'm saying who cares and why do they care if a PC is called a console? Why is that offensive? I know what's in that mind of yours, hehe. :goog_devil::goog_devil::goog_devil:
 
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guys, we have a final answer finally.
Ps4 and Ps5 are PCs, It's official : P
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btw. how is that even possible?

in order to get into the PS4 or PS5 browser you need to do some weird tricks with twitter or facebook logins, and then navigate without an adress bar.

this is clearly all kids using console tricks to go on there undetected by their parents.
 
Nintendo still doesn't exist
I just see the Switch 1 and 2 more as Mobile//HH devices.
Then you should know that just because there is component similarities, Consoles still benefit from custom software. And that the entire point of Xbox going PC was because they were losing market-share to the point of no longer able to GET 3rd party custom software. QED the Nextbox will just run PC games with no games made for the hardware, because that was the point.

Anyone who thinks the Xbox hybrid would still get performance boosts from games tailor made for it, didn't understand why Xbox became a Hybrid. They were not going to be big enough to get 3rd party support to have a traditional console, so by definition there is no 3rd party support with the PC hybrid.
I take it, you don't game on Xbox? The days of custom software are long over and it's only like RARE Replay, that is an Xbox console exclusive, yet games were still made to get the best out of the Xbox One X, even though it's just a PC in a box and had small market share, even by some 3rd parties.The next Xbox will be powerful and will looks to give console developers their 1st taste of Zen 5, which may help Next Box, lead on some 3rd parties games early in.
 
That's close to delta between GPUs that are closest to both consoles according to Kepler:

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Both of these consoles are less powerful than my 3.5 year old RTX 4090. How exciting.

And now I've said that someone will say something about the price of the 4090. Yeah and whatever, I still can't get excited about a next generation that - at that point - will be a good deal less powerful than my 5 year old GPU. Why would I.
 
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